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Tunable nano-suspensions for light harvesting

Discovery may be key to solar energy and smart glass technologies.

August 22, 2011 Read more

A microporous polymer is an unusually powerful supercapacitor

A team led by Dinglin Jiang at the National Institutes of Natural Sciences in Okazaki has introduced a new material with outstanding supercapacitor properties.

August 22, 2011 Read more

A multiferroic material with potential uses for cheap and quick data storage

HZB scientists observe how a material at room temperature exhibits a unique property - a 'multiferroic' material with potential uses for cheap and quick data storage.

August 22, 2011 Read more

'Green nanotechnology' vision is now a roadmap for development

Download a new white paper on the potential of incorporating benign chemistry practices.

August 22, 2011 Read more

Neuartiger Mechanismus zur Erzeugung und Nutzung von Spinstroemen

Forscher haben gezeigt, dass Spinstroeme mit Schallwellen erzeugt werden koennen. Weiterhin fanden sie, dass Spinstroeme auf isolierenden nichtmagnetischen Substraten auch durch einen weiteren Effekt, den sogenannten langreichweitigen Spin-Seebeck-Effekt erzeugt werden koennen.

August 22, 2011 Read more

Polymer patterning: Electrostatics makes it easy

A stored electrostatic pattern can be used to direct the self-organization of polymer thin films for use in advanced polymer devices.

August 22, 2011 Read more

Smart materials: Strength control with nanoporous gold material

Filling a nanoporous gold material with an electrolyte allows its strength and durability to be controlled using an electric field.

August 22, 2011 Read more

Briefing: Nanotechnologies for secure communications

The ObservatoryNANO project has released its latest briefing: 'Nanotechnologies for Secure Communications'.

August 22, 2011 Read more

Nanowires get into the groove

Researchers have found a way to grow semiconductor nanowires out, not up, on a surface, providing, for the first time, the much-needed guidance to produce relatively long, orderly, aligned structures.

August 22, 2011 Read more

Seeing the world of nanotechnology from a single-molecule perspective

The observation and manipulation of single molecules by scanning tunneling microscopy is opening new frontiers in nanoscience.

August 20, 2011 Read more

New issue of IBM Journal of Research and Development focuses on nanoscience and nanotechnology

This edition focuses on nanoscience, with an emphasis on LEEM (low-energy electron microscopy), PEEM (photoelectron emission microscopy), and related methods.

August 19, 2011 Read more

Wundermittel Nanotechnologie?

Kommunikationswissenschaftler untersuchten die Darstellung neuer Technologien / Berichterstattung ueberwiegend positiv trotz vorhandener Risiken.

August 19, 2011 Read more

Naturland verbietet Nanomaterialien

Der Oeko-Verband Naturland hat die Verwendung von Nanomaterialien fuer Lebensmittel und Kosmetika, auch in deren Verpackungen, verboten.

August 19, 2011 Read more

FET-House: A new website to attract young people into ICT careers

The Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) scheme of the European Commission has launched FET-House, a new website presenting some of the most advanced ICT projects in Europe and the people involved.

August 19, 2011 Read more

Screens set to go green

Electronic screens based on new energy-efficient technology could become more affordable thanks to the substitution of expensive metal components with copper ones.

August 19, 2011 Read more

Nanoscientists invent better etching technique

Imagine yourself nano-sized, standing on the edge of a soon-to-be computer chip. Down shoots a beam of electrons, carving precise topography that is then etched the depth of the Grand Canyon into the chip. From the perspective of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, this improved form of etching could open the door to new technologies.

August 19, 2011 Read more