A team of researchers from North Carolina State University and the U.K. has found that the low rate of energy conversion in all-polymer solar-cell technology is caused by the structure of the solar cells themselves. They hope that their findings will lead to the creation of more efficient solar cells.
Oct 5th, 2010
Read moreRice University composer Anthony Brandt has compressed an entire evening at the symphony into a six-minute opus - a 'nanosymphony' - as part of Rice University's Year of Nano celebration. The River Oaks Chamber Orchestra will premiere the piece Sunday at Rice's Buckyball Discovery Gala.
Oct 5th, 2010
Read moreAdvancements in Thermal Management 2010 is a technical symposium for design engineers and product developers looking to push the capabilities of their electronics designs. Being held on Oct. 19th, 2010 at the Gaylord Texan in Dallas, Texas, this event will feature presentations on the latest advancements in thermal management and thermal technology for electronics packaging and cooling, temperature sensing and control, thermal materials, systems design and management for optimizing thermal properties.
Oct 5th, 2010
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Chemists at Vanderbilt University have created a new class of liquid crystals with unique electrical properties that could improve the performance of digital displays used on everything from digital watches to flat panel televisions.
Oct 5th, 2010
Read moreOptical gyroscopes, also known as rotation sensors, are widely used as a navigational tool in vehicles from ships to airplanes, measuring the rotation rates of a vehicle on three axes to evaluate its exact position and orientation. Prof. Koby Scheuer of Tel Aviv University's School of Physical Engineering is now scaling down this crucial sensing technology for use in smartphones, medical equipment and more futuristic technologies.
Oct 5th, 2010
Read moreTraditional x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) works only in a vacuum, while fuel cells need gases under pressure to function. Now a team of scientists from the University of Maryland, the U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories, and DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has used a new kind of XPS, called ambient-pressure XPS (APXPS), to examine every feature of a working solid oxide electrochemical cell.
Oct 5th, 2010
Read moreResearchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new 'templated growth' technique for fabricating nanometer-scale graphene devices. The method addresses what had been a significant obstacle to the use of this promising material in future generations of high-performance electronic devices.
Oct 5th, 2010
Read moreA recent paper in Nature Communications sheds light on key behaviors of polymers in specially engineered confined spaces, opening the door to a level of control that has previously been impossible.
Oct 5th, 2010
Read moreThe 2007 landmark article in Nature Materials "The rise of graphene" by the just announced winners of the 2010 Nobel prize in physics, Andre Geim and Kosta Novoselov, has now been made available as a free access article.
Oct 5th, 2010
Read moreThe American Chemical Society (ACS) will honor the discovery of fullerenes, the scientific achievement that gave birth to nanotechnology, as a National Historic Chemical Landmark in a ceremony to be held at Rice University in Houston, Texas, on Oct. 11.
Oct 5th, 2010
Read moreTwo teams of researchers from China and France report success in making and testing tiny high-frequency capacitors made from a complex manmade mineral: barium strontium titanate (BST). By introducing an ultrathin (1.2 nanometer) titanium oxide seed layer, the researchers made thin BST films that exhibited excellent microwave properties up to 40 GHz.
Oct 5th, 2010
Read moreTwo Case Western Reserve University researchers are building implants made of diamond and flexible polymer that are designed to identify chemical and electrical changes in the brain of patients suffering from neural disease, or to stimulate nerves and restore movement in the paralyzed.
Oct 5th, 2010
Read moreResearchers shed new light on the growth process of carbon nanotubes. In particular, the researchers examined the influence of hydrogen gas.
Oct 5th, 2010
Read moreA prototype device developed in Hong Kong will allow laboratory researchers to non-invasively test drugs for their ability to kill tumors by subjecting cancerous cells with different concentration gradients.
Oct 5th, 2010
Read moreA new electrofluidics design from the University of Cincinnati and start-up company Gamma Dynamics that promises to dramatically reshape the image capabilities of electronic devices.
Oct 5th, 2010
Read moreAn important step - one that is essential to the ultimate construction of a quantum computer - was taken for the first time by physicists at UC Santa Barbara. The research involves the entanglement of three quantum bits of information, or qubits. Before now, entanglement research in the solid state has only been developed with two qubits.
Oct 5th, 2010
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