The King Abdullah Institute for Nanotechnology (KAIN) will be equipped with state-of-the-art laboratories and facilities constructed over an area of 8,000 square meters.
Oct 20th, 2010
Read moreA groundbreaking new equation developed in part by researchers at the University of Michigan could do for organic semiconductors what the Shockley ideal diode equation did for inorganic semiconductors: help to enable their wider adoption. Without the Shockley equation, the computers of today would not be possible.
Oct 20th, 2010
Read moreChinese researchers have described a new breakthrough in understanding the way electrons travel around quantum dots. This might lead to promising new fabrication methods of novel quantum devices.
Oct 20th, 2010
Read moreCanary Foundation researchers at Stanford University received the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Early Detection Research Network (EDRN) Biomarker Development Laboratory (BDL) Grant. This award came at the same time as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved an eIND for Canary Foundation research in the testing of molecular imaging agents for lung cancer.
Oct 20th, 2010
Read moreIn the framework of the ongoing work of the High-Level Expert Group on Key Enabling Technologies (KETs), this Open Day is organised by the Working Group on Nanotechnologies in order to consult a broad stakeholder audience on the needs and challenges of the sector, contributing to the development of appropriate policy measures to promote the industrial deployment of KETs.
Oct 20th, 2010
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Monolayer of platinum atoms on a tungsten carbide support catalyzes the electrolytic production of hydrogen effectively and cheaply.
Oct 20th, 2010
Read morePlants play an important role as producers of sugar and carbohydrates. Scientists from the University of Wuerzburg are conducting research in this area - with the long-term goal of influencing sugar levels in agricultural crop plants.
Oct 20th, 2010
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Four recipients received the 2010 Technologist Award in Bangkok.
Oct 20th, 2010
Read moreImec Taiwan today signed the co-funding contract with the Taiwanese Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) for its R+D activity Imec Taiwan Innovation Centre (ITIC). ITIC's goal is to expedite applied research projects with industry and academia that will result in electronic designs, components and technology solutions.
Oct 20th, 2010
Read moreEfforts to store energy in carbon nanotubes described at AVS Meeting in Albuquerque.
Oct 20th, 2010
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Experiments in which fluid droplets mimic the odd behavior of subatomic particles recall an abandoned interpretation of quantum mechanics.
Oct 20th, 2010
Read moreA research group at the University of South Australia is working on techniques to permanently bind antibacterial coatings to medical devices by binding them to a polymer layer.
Oct 20th, 2010
Read moreMicro-scaled photovoltaic devices may one day be used to deliver chemotherapeutic drugs directly to tumors, rendering chemotherapy less toxic to surrounding tissue.
Oct 20th, 2010
Read moreResearch funded by DARPA is pushing the limits of battery technology and trying to create some of the tiniest batteries on Earth, the largest of which would be no bigger than a grain of sand.
Oct 19th, 2010
Read moreUniversity of Virginia chemical engineers Robert J. Davis and Matthew Neurock have uncovered the key features that control the high reactivity of gold nanoparticles in a process that oxidizes alcohols in water. The research is an important first step in unlocking the potential of using metal catalysts for developing biorenewable chemicals.
Oct 19th, 2010
Read moreThe 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics went to the two scientists who first isolated graphene, one-atom-thick crystals of graphite. Now, a researcher with the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering is trying to develop a method to mass-produce this revolutionary material.
Oct 19th, 2010
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