Nanotechnologists from the MESA+ research institute of the University of Twente have discovered that the photosynthesis system of bacteria can be used to transport light over relatively long distances.
Apr 26th, 2010
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Discovery supports development of nanoscale magnetic storage devices.
Apr 26th, 2010
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Rice University researchers and their colleagues in Finland and Hungary have found a way to make carbon nanotube membranes that could find wide application as extra-fine air filters and as scaffolds for catalysts that speed chemical reactions.
Apr 26th, 2010
Read moreThe technology consortium Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography System Development Association (EUVA), today announced that its extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light source has achieved a power output of 104 Watts at the intermediate focus, at which EUV is effectively radiated.
Apr 26th, 2010
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A new form of platinum that could be used to make cheaper, more efficient fuel cells has been created by researchers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the University of Houston.
Apr 26th, 2010
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New technique improves researchers' ability to measure a key property of material surfaces.
Apr 26th, 2010
Read moreA paper appearing in the April 25 issue of Physical Review Letters reports on the efforts of a team of Japanese physicists who probed the changes in a magnetic shape-memory material at the molecular scale.
Apr 26th, 2010
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Scientists have managed to accurately determine the location of metal complexes within living cancer cells using Raman microscopy. The researchers have thus gained new insights into the mechanism of action of metal-containing drugs, to which they ascribe great potential capacities, e.g. in the treatment of cancer.
Apr 26th, 2010
Read moreThe Clean Technology and Sustainable Industries Organization (CTSI) and partnering organization Nano Science and Technology Institute will host a technology innovation showcase in conjunction with the Clean Technology 2010 Conference and Expo in Anaheim, California on June 23, 2010.
Apr 26th, 2010
Read moreProfessor Dr.-Ing. Joachim Burghartz, Direktor des Instituts fuer Mikroelektronik in Stuttgart und Professor an der Universitaet Stuttgart erhaelt den mit 100.000 Euro dotierten Landesforschungspreis fuer Angewandte Forschung. Er wird damit fuer die Entwicklung von superduennen Silizium-Chips ausgezeichnet.
Apr 26th, 2010
Read moreThe one-day event will showcase the University of Edinburgh's current nanotechnology research including expertise in nanotoxicology, nanoenergy, nanosensors, nanomaterials, nanoelectronics and nanometrology.
Apr 26th, 2010
Read moreNew images improve resolution of measurements by a factor of 10,000 or more.
Apr 25th, 2010
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In our brains, information processing circuits - neurons - evolve continuously to solve complex problems. Now, an international research team from Japan and Michigan Technological University has created a similar process of circuit evolution in an organic molecular layer that can solve complex problems.
Apr 25th, 2010
Read morePokeberries - the weeds that children smash to stain their cheeks purple-red and that Civil War soldiers used to write letters home - could be the key to spreading solar power across the globe
Apr 25th, 2010
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Researchers describe a unique new technique for integrating high performance micro-sized supercapacitors into a variety of portable electronic devices through common microfabrication techniques.
Apr 23rd, 2010
Read moreA team of EU-funded researchers has become the first in the world to work out the structure of a transporter protein in all three main structural states. Transporter proteins are responsible for ferrying substances into and out of cells and the new findings could lead to new drugs for a range of diseases and disorders.
Apr 23rd, 2010
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