Researchers have found that silicon, the most widely used material for computer chips and solar cells, can exhibit this strange property of 'retrograde melting' when it contains high concentrations of certain metals dissolved in it.
Aug 2nd, 2010
Read moreOne Chicago skyline is dazzling enough. Now imagine 15,000 of them. A Northwestern University research team has done just that -- drawing 15,000 identical skylines with tiny beams of light using an innovative nanofabrication technology called beam-pen lithography (BPL).
Aug 1st, 2010
Read moreA new membrane developed at the University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics blocks gas from flowing through it when one color of light is shined on its surface, and permits gas to flow through when another color of light is used.
Aug 1st, 2010
Read moreThis three-year ENIAC (European Nanoelectronics Initiative Advisory Council) project aims to achieve substantial advances in state-of-the-art medical 3D-imaging platforms by focusing on the diagnosis and therapy of serious diseases of the central nervous system and brain.
Jul 31st, 2010
Read moreThrough advancements in nanotechnology, Professor Babak Parviz, from the University of Washington, will explain at a NASA talk how contact lenses have been converted into systems that can complete extraordinary tasks.
Jul 31st, 2010
Read moreMTECH Laboratories receives $150K NSF award to demonstrate the feasibility of its novel, high-efficiency energy distribution system for large buildings.
Jul 31st, 2010
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In an innovation critical to improved DNA sequencing, a markedly slower transmission of DNA through nanopores has been achieved by a team led by Sandia National Laboratories researchers.
Jul 30th, 2010
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Ultra-strong interaction between light and matter realized.
Jul 30th, 2010
Read moreThe current tendency in bone tissue engineering is developing materials that temporarily substitute for the bone while inducing its regeneration in such a way that this, temporary material, disappears as the bone recovers its space.
Jul 30th, 2010
Read moreA nanomaterial originally developed to fight toxic waste is now helping reduce debilitating fumes in homes with corrosive drywall.
Jul 30th, 2010
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Einem Team von Forschern der Uni Hamburg und des spanischen Forschungszentrums IMDEA Nanoscience ist es gelungen, Materialien auf chemischem Wege herzustellen, die sich durch Selbstorganisation zu zweidimensionalen Nanostrukturen zusammenfinden.
Jul 30th, 2010
Read moreNew theory aids researchers studying DNA, protein transport.
Jul 29th, 2010
Read moreResearchers report the creation of pseudo-magnetic fields far stronger than the strongest magnetic fields ever sustained in a laboratory - just by putting the right kind of strain onto a patch of graphene.
Jul 29th, 2010
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A decade of research yields new uses for ancient material.
Jul 29th, 2010
Read morePhysicists at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) have found that when graphene is stretched in a specific way it sprouts nanobubbles in which electrons behave in a bizarre way, as if they are moving in a strong magnetic field.
Jul 29th, 2010
Read moreRegistration is open for Year of Nano events to be held Oct. 10-13 in honor of the 25th anniversary of the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of the carbon 60 molecule, the buckminsterfullerene, at Rice.
Jul 29th, 2010
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