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Gleitlacke aus Nanokompositen reduzieren Reibung und Verschleiss

Forscher vom INM - Leibniz-Institut fuer Neue Materialien haben Gleitlacke aus Nanokompositen entwickelt, die als Trockenschmierstoffe zum Einsatz kommen.

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Watching electrons in molecules

A research group led by ETH Zurich has now, for the first time, visualized the motion of electrons during a chemical reaction. The new findings in the experiment are of fundamental importance for photochemistry and could also assist the design of more efficient solar cells.

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Packing in six times more storage density with the help of table salt

Researchers have developed a process that can increase the data recording density of hard disks to 3.3 Terabit/in2, six times the recording density of current models. The key ingredient in the much enhanced patterning method that he pioneered is sodium chloride, the chemical grade of regular table salt.

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Splitting spin to get ahead

A bismuth-based semiconducting material could enable control of electron spin, a crucial requirement for advancing novel devices.

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Nanobelts support manipulation of light

Rice University lab discovers tiny gold bars have strong plasmonic properties.

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Carbon nanotube muscles generate giant twist for novel motors

Twist per muscle length is over a thousand times higher than for previous artificial muscles and the muscle diameter is ten times smaller than a human hair.

October 13, 2011 Read more

Emulating - and surpassing- nature

Design rules will enable scientists to use DNA to build nanomaterials with desired properties.

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Physicist says nanoparticle assembly is like building with LEGOs

New processes that allow nanoparticles to assemble themselves into designer materials could solve some of today's technology challenges.

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A new scheme for photonic quantum computing

A new scheme termed "coherent photon conversion", could potentially overcome all of the currently unresolved problems for optical implementations of quantum computing.

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Jahresbericht der Bundesanstalt f. Arbeitsschutz und Arbeitsmedizin 2010

Dieser Jahresbericht gibt einen Einblick in die konkreten Aktivitaeten und die daraus entstandenen Arbeitsergebnisse, die das Jahr 2010 gepraegt haben.

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Gold doping increases nickel catalyst activity for carbon nanostructure formation

Researchers from the CNST and Arizona State University have demonstrated that the overall catalytic activity of nickel particles for the formation of carbon nanostructures is improved by the addition of a small amount of gold.

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Small defects mean big problems for industrial solar cells

The existence of nanoscale clusters are shown to directly correlate with local recombination activity within the cell, regulating the overall performance of the energy conversion device.

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Bundesregierung antwortet auf Kleine Anfrage u.a. zum Thema Nanotechnologien

Die Bundesregierung beantwortet eine Anfrage zum Thema Chemikalienpolitik auf nationaler und europaeischer Ebene.

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Discovery could make fuel and plastics production more energy efficient and cost effective

A University of Minnesota team of researchers has overcome a major hurdle in the quest to design a specialized type of molecular sieve that could make the production of gasoline, plastics and various chemicals more cost effective and energy efficient.

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Erasing history? Temporal cloaks adjust light's throttle to hide an event in time

Researchers from Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., have demonstrated for the first time that it's possible to cloak a singular event in time, creating what has been described as a "history editor".

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Scientists use gold nanorods to flag brain tumors

Scientists have proposed a way to harness the unique optical properties of gold nanoparticles to clearly distinguish a brain tumor from the healthy, and vital, tissue that surrounds it.

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