Graphene and spintronics combo looks promising
A team of physicists has taken a big step toward the development of useful graphene spintronic devices.
Jan 25th, 2011
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Physicists take new look at the atom
Measuring the attractive forces between atoms and surfaces with unprecedented precision, University of Arizona physicists have produced data that could refine our understanding of the structure of atoms and improve nanotechnology.
Jan 25th, 2011
Read moreNew lab-on-chip advance uses low-cost, disposable paper strips
Researchers have invented a technique that uses inexpensive paper to make microfluidic devices for rapid medical diagnostics and chemical analysis. The innovation represents a way to enhance commercially available diagnostic devices that use paper-strip assays like those that test for diabetes and pregnancy.
Jan 25th, 2011
Read moreNanotech milling produces dramatic increase in thermoelectric performance of bulk semiconductor
Researchers from Boston College, MIT, Clemson University and the University of Virginia have used nanotechnology to achieve a 60-90 percent increase in the thermoelectric figure of merit of p-type half-Heusler, a common bulk semiconductor compound.
Jan 25th, 2011
Read moreBioEnergy summit set: Innovative technologies for an energized future
The theme for the event is Innovative Technologies for an Energized Future. The commercialization of technologies and processes used to produce bioenergy from a variety of biomass resources highlights this half-day program. The BioEnergy Summit will also explore innovative nanotechnologies for bioenergy production and technologies for producing energy from wastewater.
Jan 25th, 2011
Read moreNIST opens $20 million grant competition to support new scientific research facilities
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today launched a new competition for grants to support the construction of new or expanded scientific research facilities at institutions of higher education and nonprofit scientific research organizations.
Jan 25th, 2011
Read moreVoiding defects: New technique makes LED lighting more efficient
Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are an increasingly popular technology for use in energy-efficient lighting. Researchers from North Carolina State University have now developed a new technique that reduces defects in the gallium nitride (GaN) films used to create LEDs, making them more efficient.
Jan 25th, 2011
Read moreShining new light on air pollutants using entangled porous frameworks
Certain types of pollution monitoring may soon become considerably easier. A group of researchers centered at Kyoto University has shown that a newly-formulated entangled framework of porous crystals (porous coordination polymers, or PCPs) can not only capture a variety of common air pollutants, but that the mixtures then glow in specific, easily-detected colors.
Jan 25th, 2011
Read morePlasmonic metamaterials may bring advanced optical technologies, cloaking
Researchers are developing a new class of 'plasmonic metamaterials' as potential building blocks for advanced optical technologies, including ultrapowerful microscopes and computers, improved solar cells, and a possible invisibility cloak.
Jan 25th, 2011
Read moreImec launches new research program on high-bandwidth optical I/O
Imec announces the launch of a new industrial affiliation program on high-bandwidth optical input/output (I/O). The primary objective of the new program, which is part of imec's research platform on deep-submicron CMOS scaling, is to explore the use of optical solutions for realizing high-bandwidth I/O between CMOS chips.
Jan 25th, 2011
Read moreDialog-Forum Nanomaterialien am Arbeitsplatz - Downloads jetzt online
Die Bundesanstalt fuer Arbeitsschutz und Arbeitsmedizin (BAuA) fuehrte am 17.01.2011 die Veranstaltung 'Dialog-Forum Nanomaterialien am Arbeitsplatz' mit ueber 200 Interessierten aus Betrieben und Behoerden durch.
Jan 25th, 2011
Read moreTwo quantum physicists selected in the European Research Council's third 'Advanced Grant' competition
The ERC-'Advanced Grant' for established research leaders is one of the most prestigious research awards worldwide. Two physicists at the University of Stuttgart received independently of each other this grant in the amount of 2.4 Million Euro each to promote their pioneering research.
Jan 25th, 2011
Read moreHidden in plain sight - invisibility cloak
A new approach to invisibility cloaking gets much closer to the science-fiction version, using simple and inexpensive materials.
Jan 25th, 2011
Read moreThe practical full-spectrum solar cell comes closer
Although full-spectrum solar cells have been made, none yet have been suitable for manufacture at a consumer-friendly price. Now Wladek Walukiewicz, who leads the Solar Energy Materials Research Group in the Materials Sciences Division (MSD) at Berkeley Lab, and his colleagues have demonstrated a solar cell that not only responds to virtually the entire solar spectrum, it can also readily be made using one of the semiconductor industry's most common manufacturing techniques.
Jan 25th, 2011
Read moreNano-Forschungverbund BIONEERS weitere drei Jahre finanziert - 'Biological Responses to Nanoscale Particles'
Die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) wird auch in den kommenden drei Jahren die Forschung nach biologischen und gesundheitsrelevanten Wirkungen von Nanopartikeln auf die Atemwege foerdern.
Jan 25th, 2011
Read moreBreakthrough in low temperature growth of carbon nanotubes
Researchers at the University of Surrey have discovered a way to grow high-quality carbon nanotubes over large areas at substrate temperatures below 350C.
Jan 24th, 2011
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