A team led by Shu Wang at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology of A*STAR, Singapore, has now designed a new polymer coating that protects viral vectors - making them resistant to serum within the body.
Feb 17th, 2010
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Understanding stress changes in a silicon substrate as it is thinned aids semiconductor device manufacture.
Feb 17th, 2010
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Researchers have developed a rigorous two-dimensional quantum model of the 'gate-all-around' nanowire configuration, leading to a better match with experimental data and highlighting the importance of quantum effects.
Feb 17th, 2010
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Printing of microchannels in polymers takes a step forward, but fine-tuning is still required.
Feb 17th, 2010
Read moreA collaboration between researchers at Northwestern University's Center for Catalysis and scientists at Oxford University has produced a new approach for understanding surfaces, particularly metal oxide surfaces, widely used in industry as supports for catalysts.
Feb 17th, 2010
Read moreMcGill researcher develops eco-friendly nanocatalyst.
Feb 16th, 2010
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Using arrays of long, thin silicon wires embedded in a polymer substrate, a team of scientists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has created a new type of flexible solar cell that enhances the absorption of sunlight and efficiently converts its photons into electrons.
Feb 16th, 2010
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Computational modeling tools developed at the Georgia Institute of Technology could accelerate development of a new type of membrane technology that will boost the efficiency of energy-related gas separations.
Feb 16th, 2010
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Scalable and reusable optical detection system boasts the sensitivity of a large microscope in a much smaller, cheaper package.
Feb 16th, 2010
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Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a 'smart coating' that helps surgical implants bond more closely with bone and ward off infection.
Feb 16th, 2010
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An international team headed by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light has used polarized light - light waves which oscillate in a particular plane - to design a simple model for a quantum physical random walk.
Feb 16th, 2010
Read moreInnovative work by researchers from CNSE and its global corporate partners at CNSE's Albany NanoTech Complex to be featured at SPIE Advanced Lithography Conference
Feb 16th, 2010
Read moreLeti, in collaboration with CNRS/LTM, STMicroelectronics and IMEC, is organizing the 3rd Plasma Etch and Strip in Microelectronics workshop March 4-5 at MINATEC in Grenoble.
Feb 16th, 2010
Read moreNIM researchers from the groups of Friedrich Simmel and Philip Tinnefeld at TU and LMU Munich created a nanoscopic ruler made of DNA.
Feb 16th, 2010
Read moreResearchers led by Dirk Trauner, a chemist at the University of Munich, have figured out the mechanism by which molecules with the ability to block voltage-gated ion channels can be turned on and off repeatedly by light.
Feb 16th, 2010
Read moreDirect assembly of nanomaterials for highly efficient energy conversion will be the goal of a five-year, $750,000 project led by Cornell researcher David Erickson.
Feb 16th, 2010
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