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Brookhaven Lab and Nanofactory Instruments, AB, receive the 2011 Microscopy Today Innovation Award (w/video)

The U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Nanofactory Instruments, AB, a Swedish company that develops and markets scanning probe microscopy instrumentation, have received the 2011 Microscopy Today Innovation Award.

September 21, 2011 Read more

New 'smart window' system with unprecedented performance

A new 'smart' window system has the unprecedented ability to inexpensively change from summer to winter modes, darkening to save air conditioning costs on scorching days and returning to crystal clarity in the winter to capture free heat from the sun, scientists are reporting.

September 21, 2011 Read more

European event includes the launch of a report on benefit-risk assessment of nanomaterials

In the framework of the Polish Presidency of the EU Council 2011, the European Commission Joint Research Centre and EASAC (the European Academies Science Advisory Council) jointly organise this event in Brussels, including the launch of the report "Impact of engineered nanomaterials on human health: considerations on benefit-risk assessment".

September 21, 2011 Read more

"You get to see the impact of your research"

As part of IBM Research's newly extended global Summer intern program, eight undergraduate students from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Union College, and University of Notre Dame, joined IBM Research Zurich in Switzerland for two months.

September 21, 2011 Read more

How to produce flexible CIGS solar cells with record efficiency

The technology yielding flexible solar cells with an 18.7% world record efficiency developed by scientists at Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, has now been published in Nature Materials.

September 21, 2011 Read more

Printed Electronics Europe 2012 in Berlin focuses on technology commercialization

IDTechEx, the organiser of the World's largest global series of Printed Electronics events will hold its European show in Berlin, Germany on April 3-4. The focus, as at all IDTechEx events, is to address the needs and experiences of adopters of the technology.

September 21, 2011 Read more

Catching molecular motion at just the right time

University of Oregon theorists overcome loss of entropy and friction in computational simulations.

September 21, 2011 Read more

New hybrid carbon nanomaterial synthesized

New hybrid carbon material, which combines both graphene and SWNTs, Graphene Nanoribbons encapsulated into Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes (GNR@SWNTs) have been discovered by researchers from Aalto University (Finland) and Umea University.

September 21, 2011 Read more

Researchers get first detailed look at nitrogen doping in single-layer graphene

Researchers used a combination of four techniques to make the first detailed images of nitrogen-doped graphene film. They showed that individual nitrogen atoms had taken the places of carbon atoms in the two-dimensional sheet; that about half of the extra electron contributed by each nitrogen atom was distributed throughout the graphene lattice; and that this changed the electronic structure of the graphene sheet only within a short distance - about the width of two carbon atoms - from the dopant atoms.

September 21, 2011 Read more

New Swiss innovation center promotes mass production of organic electronics

With the aim of continuing to promote industrial innovation based on state-of-the-art technologies, CSEM has opened a new innovation center in Muttenz, with the support of the Canton of Basel-Landschaft. The polytronics development center is involved in the mass production of organic electronics.

September 21, 2011 Read more

Irish nanoscience research institute in research partnership with Merck Millipore

As part of the research programmes, CRANN will assist Merck Millipore to further develop the nanostructures of their products' artificial membranes, that are widely used for medical and diagnostic devices, and to deliver new products with improved membrane performances.

September 21, 2011 Read more

New gallium nitride transistor technology - faster, smaller and more economical

Researchers under ETH-Zurich professor Colombo Bolognesi are working on a new gallium nitride transistor technology using silicon(110) as a substrate. As the new combination of materials has many advantages, gallium nitride is poised to conquer the electronics market and help power the green revolution.

September 21, 2011 Read more

Researchers dramatically increase the energy density of graphene-based supercapacitors

Researchers have succeeded in dramatically increasing the energy density of supercapacitors, which are used to store electrical energy. This was realized by developing a new electrode in which graphene nanosheets are stacked in a layered structure with carbon nanotubes sandwiched between the graphene layers.

September 21, 2011 Read more

A*STAR SIMTech launches comprehensive microfluidics foundry for the worldwide microfluidic community

The Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech), a research institute of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), launched the SIMTech Microfluidics Foundry (SMF) today. SMF offers an integrated spectrum of capabilities for developing and manufacturing of specialised and low-cost microfluidic devices for applications in healthcare, biomedical, pharmaceutical, energy, water quality monitoring and chemical processing.

September 21, 2011 Read more

Vacuum-like device makes cellular exploration easier

New floating microscopic device will allow researchers to study a wide range of cellular processes.

September 20, 2011 Read more

Assembly of nanostructures using DNA may lead to the production of new materials

Assembly of nanostructures using DNA may lead to the production of new materials with a wide range of applications from electronics to tissue engineering. Researchers in the Institute for Nanoscience and Engineering at the University of Arkansas have produced building blocks for such material by controlling the number, placement and orientation of DNA linkers on the surface of colloidal nanoparticles.

September 20, 2011 Read more