Beyond the quantum limit
Scientists create multi-particle entanglement of atoms in a Bose Einstein condensate on a microchip.
Apr 1st, 2010
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Of Van Gogh nanotubes and nano-witches - winning nanotechnology images
During the 2009 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston, MA last year, the MRS conducted the eigth installment of the popular 'Science as Art' competition. Here are the six first-place and second-place winners.
Apr 1st, 2010
Read moreRetooled Kavli Institute to focus on nanotechnology ideas 'so crazy they might actually work'
Leaders of the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science want its members to go for the impossible. The institute is reinventing itself into a cutting-edge, research-focused organization to support projects at the boundaries of nanoscale imaging and control.
Apr 1st, 2010
Read moreNature ranks A*STAR 7th in Asia-Pacific for research publications
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) is the seventh most prolific agency in the Asia-Pacific region, in terms of the total number of research papers published in the prestigious Nature Publishing Group's portfolio of Nature-branded journals in 2009, according to the Nature Asia-Pacific Publishing Index.
Apr 1st, 2010
Read moreDiscovering new tools for nanoscience and nanotechnology
Directors of the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science discuss their new 'high risk, high payoff' mission to push the technology of observation, measurement and control to ever-smaller dimensions.
Apr 1st, 2010
Read moreOn slippery science subjects such as nanotechnology, Internet news delivers
Internet-based science news draws a more demographically diverse, learned and focused audience than print or television news, according to a study by University of Wisconsin-Madison communication researchers.
Mar 31st, 2010
Read moreCarbon nanostructures - elixir or poison?
A Los Alamos National Laboratory toxicologist and a multidisciplinary team of researchers have documented potential cellular damage from fullerenes. The team also noted that this particular type of damage might hold hope for treatment of Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, or even cancer.
Mar 31st, 2010
Read more2010 BIO International Convention to address global environmental and energy issues
Climate change and next-generation biofuels to be highlighted at global event for biotechnology.
Mar 31st, 2010
Read moreResearchers discover new, controllable state in ferroelectric nanowires
Researchers at the University of Arkansas and their colleagues have discovered a new phase in ferroelectric nanowires that could be controlled to optimize important properties for future electronic devices.
Mar 31st, 2010
Read moreNanotechnology-enabled pill signals it has been swallowed
Seeking a way to confirm that patients have taken their medication, University of Florida engineering researchers have added a tiny microchip and digestible antenna to a standard pill capsule. The prototype is intended to pave the way for mass-produced pills that, when ingested, automatically alert doctors, loved ones or scientists working with patients in clinical drug trials.
Mar 31st, 2010
Read moreA promising nanotube coating for solar cells has turned up a few unexpected wrinkles
A closer look at a promising nanotube coating that might one day improve solar cells has turned up a few unexpected wrinkles, according to new research - research that also may help scientists iron out a solution.
Mar 31st, 2010
Read moreSpray-on manufacturing of transistors with organic semiconductors
A multidisciplinary research team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has found that an organic semiconductor may be a viable candidate for creating large-area electronics, such as solar cells and displays that can be sprayed onto a surface as easily as paint.
Mar 31st, 2010
Read moreNIST racetrack ion trap is a contender in quantum computing quest
Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have built and tested a device for trapping electrically charged atoms (ions) that potentially could process dozens of ions at once with the most versatile control of any trap demonstrated to date.
Mar 31st, 2010
Read moreAtomic-scale tug-of-war - how to pull a chain of atoms apart
How hard do you have to pull on a single atom of - let's say - gold to detach it from the end of a chain of like atoms? It's a measure of the astonishing progress in nanotechnology that questions that once would have interested only physicists or chemists are now being asked by engineers.
Mar 31st, 2010
Read moreCEA-Leti's Hybrid Metrology Project targets better R+D cycle times and yields at sub-28nm nodes
CEA-Leti, a leading global research center committed to creating and commercializing innovation in micro- and nanotechnologies, said today that its Hybrid Metrology Project has developed a way to reduce measurement uncertainty in the sub-28nm nodes.
Mar 31st, 2010
Read moreNanoBusiness Alliance to present 3rd Annual Nano Renewable Energy Summit in Denver, May 24-25
The NanoBusiness Alliance and the Colorado Nanotechnology Alliance today announced that the 3rd annual Nano Renewable Energy Summit will return to the University of Denver, CO, from May 24-25, 2010.
Mar 31st, 2010
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