If you say 'synchrotron' to most scientists, they will picture an immense, highly expensive and rather rare facility designed to produce highly intense beams of light, such as the UK's Diamond Light Source that boasts a 500 metre circumference and cost GBP 263 million (EUR 297 million) to build. However, that could soon change, as EU-funded scientists have created a table-top device capable of producing synchrotron X-rays that are as intense as those produced by some of the world's largest X-ray facilities.
Oct 26th, 2010
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Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute use water to open, tune graphene's band gap.
Oct 26th, 2010
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Scientists at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) have developed a method that uses the magnetic fingerprint of the charge-carrying particles to reveal exactly how electricity is being lost. They did so by cleverly manipulating the magnetic properties of these particles.
Oct 26th, 2010
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Der Senat der Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft entschied am Dienstag, den 19. Oktober 2010, dass die Einrichtung fuer Elektronische Nanosysteme ENAS in Chemnitz zum 1.1.2011 ein eigenstaendiges Institut wird.
Oct 26th, 2010
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Proteins are an interesting class of drugs because they demonstrate high biological activity and are highly specific in their effects. It has become possible to produce more and more proteins with tailored pharmacological properties; however transport and controlled release of the protein drugs in the body have remained a challenge. Researchers have now introduced an alternative to the usual transport agents, such as liposomes: by using a simple, inexpensive, gentle process, they were able to produce pure protein microspheres of uniform size.
Oct 26th, 2010
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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a new electronic method for detecting microRNA isolated from living cells.
Oct 26th, 2010
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Purdue University and the University of Notre Dame are teaming up with state officials to offer Indiana's first business plan competition targeting startup ventures and emerging companies in nanotechnology.
Oct 26th, 2010
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Researchers have experimentally investigated a Landau-Zener scenario in a system of one-dimensional quantum gases in two coupled potential tubes. They found that the collective tunneling of the many particles is drastically altered from the single-particle case, ultimately leading to a breakdown of the transfer to the opposite side.
Oct 26th, 2010
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Israeli scientists are making significant contributions to the advance of nano-technology, discovering and developing some of the most important breakthroughs.
Oct 26th, 2010
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Einem internationalen Forscherteam ist es erstmals gelungen, die Entstehung von Aluminiumoxid-Nanodraehten in atomarer Aufloesung und in Echtzeit zu beobachten. Dabei stellten die Wissenschaftler fest, dass das selbstkatalytische Wachstum der Aluminiumoxid-Draehte in einem zweistufigen Prozess erfolgt, wobei der Draht entlang seiner Laengsachse Lage fuer Lage aufgebaut wird.
Oct 26th, 2010
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Professor Mark Kendall's team from the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology has won a major award for their work on the needle-free vaccination delivery device Nanopatch.
Oct 26th, 2010
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Storing thermal energy in chemical could lead to advances in storage and portability.
Oct 25th, 2010
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Decrease in self-assembly processing time creates viable alternative to conventional lithography.
Oct 25th, 2010
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A new assessment of future scenarios that limit the extent of global warming cautions that unless current imbalances in R+D portfolios for the development of new, efficient, and clean energy technologies are redressed, greenhouse gas emission reduction targets are unlikely to be met, or met only at considerable costs.
Oct 25th, 2010
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Unsere Versuche, Sonnenenergie zu nutzen, sind bisher noch sehr ineffektiv. Wahre Meister in dieser Disziplin sind dagegen photosynthetische Pflanzen, Algen und Bakterien. Die Wissenschaft versucht, diesen Organismen nachzueifern. Wissenschaftlern haben jetzt einen neuen Ansatz zur Steigerung der Lichtausbeute entwickelt.
Oct 25th, 2010
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Researchers have developed a new method that can detect and quantify interactions between molecules of widely different sizes. The technique makes use of "Microscale Thermophoresis" (MST), which is sensitive to the electrical charge of molecule changes of the hydration spheres (bound layers of water) associated with them.
Oct 25th, 2010
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