The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering of the University at Albany and Technic Inc., a global leader in the development of photovoltaic electrodeposition processes, today announced a research and development partnership that is designed to enable critical improvements in manufacturing processes for solar cells.
Apr 1st, 2010
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University of Miami engineer and her collaborators are using gold nanoparticles to develop a quick, simple and efficient detection method for melamine in dairy products.
Apr 1st, 2010
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Physicists of Saarland University have developed a technology that could accelerate scanning probe microscopes by a factor of 1000.
Apr 1st, 2010
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Scientists create multi-particle entanglement of atoms in a Bose Einstein condensate on a microchip.
Apr 1st, 2010
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During the 2009 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston, MA last year, the MRS conducted the eigth installment of the popular 'Science as Art' competition. Here are the six first-place and second-place winners.
Apr 1st, 2010
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Leaders of the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science want its members to go for the impossible. The institute is reinventing itself into a cutting-edge, research-focused organization to support projects at the boundaries of nanoscale imaging and control.
Apr 1st, 2010
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The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) is the seventh most prolific agency in the Asia-Pacific region, in terms of the total number of research papers published in the prestigious Nature Publishing Group's portfolio of Nature-branded journals in 2009, according to the Nature Asia-Pacific Publishing Index.
Apr 1st, 2010
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Directors of the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science discuss their new 'high risk, high payoff' mission to push the technology of observation, measurement and control to ever-smaller dimensions.
Apr 1st, 2010
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Internet-based science news draws a more demographically diverse, learned and focused audience than print or television news, according to a study by University of Wisconsin-Madison communication researchers.
Mar 31st, 2010
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A Los Alamos National Laboratory toxicologist and a multidisciplinary team of researchers have documented potential cellular damage from fullerenes. The team also noted that this particular type of damage might hold hope for treatment of Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, or even cancer.
Mar 31st, 2010
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Climate change and next-generation biofuels to be highlighted at global event for biotechnology.
Mar 31st, 2010
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Researchers at the University of Arkansas and their colleagues have discovered a new phase in ferroelectric nanowires that could be controlled to optimize important properties for future electronic devices.
Mar 31st, 2010
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Seeking a way to confirm that patients have taken their medication, University of Florida engineering researchers have added a tiny microchip and digestible antenna to a standard pill capsule. The prototype is intended to pave the way for mass-produced pills that, when ingested, automatically alert doctors, loved ones or scientists working with patients in clinical drug trials.
Mar 31st, 2010
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A closer look at a promising nanotube coating that might one day improve solar cells has turned up a few unexpected wrinkles, according to new research - research that also may help scientists iron out a solution.
Mar 31st, 2010
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A multidisciplinary research team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has found that an organic semiconductor may be a viable candidate for creating large-area electronics, such as solar cells and displays that can be sprayed onto a surface as easily as paint.
Mar 31st, 2010
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Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have built and tested a device for trapping electrically charged atoms (ions) that potentially could process dozens of ions at once with the most versatile control of any trap demonstrated to date.
Mar 31st, 2010
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