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Nanopfeiler leuchten besser ohne Gold

Saeulen aus Galliumarsenid sind eine Alternative zu Schichten, denn sie wachsen auch auf Silizium in guter Qualitaet. Forscher des Paul-Drude-Instituts konnten jetzt den Nachweis erbringen, dass der haeufig verwendete Goldkatalysator die Eigenschaften der Saeulen empfindlich stoert.

June 27, 2011 Read more

Hands-on courses prepare students for careers in nanotechnology

Two new cross-disciplinary courses developed through undergraduate education research at the University of Cincinnati provide hands-on experience to better meet the growing demand for 2,000,000 nanotechnology workers that current projections hold to be needed by 2020.

June 27, 2011 Read more

Fluorescent diamond nanocrystals offer new possibilities for biosensing in living cells

Researchers from the University of Melbourne in Australia have developed a diamond nanoparticle-based method that allows the position and orientation of the fluorescent particles to be monitored in living cells.

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Organic electronics: Peel carefully

Cleaving organic crystals with adhesive tape reveals that charge carrier mobility dramatically increases below a critical thickness.

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UK-Japan team develops atom-scale switches for revolutionary low-power computer processor

Revolutionary low-power logic systems that will perform instant on/off logic operations are being developed by research scientists at the University of Southampton in partnership with the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan, and Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory.

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Nanotube-enzyme biomaterial to be tested on final Shuttle mission

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute engineer will study the impacts of microgravity on dangerous bacteria.

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Graphene promises faster electronics

The novel material graphene makes faster electronics possible. Scientists at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna) developed light-detectors made of graphene and analyzed their astonishing properties.

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Heidelberg Instruments to develop novel UColorado nanotechnology platform

A novel University of Colorado Boulder technique to shrink the size of circuitry used in nanotechnology devices like computer chips and solar cells by zapping a substrate with two separate colors of light beams has been optioned to Heidelberg Instruments headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany.

June 27, 2011 Read more

OLED research using computer-aided design approach

Researchers at National Nanotechnology Center in Thailand, NANOTEC, investigated the effect of conjugated length of two series of novel emitting material on organic light emitting diodes (OLED) using density functional theory (DFT) and time dependence density functional theory (TDDFT) using computer-aided design approach.

June 27, 2011 Read more

Researchers crack full-spectrum solar challenge

In a paper published in Nature Photonics, University of Toronto Engineering researchers report a new solar cell that may pave the way to inexpensive coatings that efficiently convert the sun's rays to electricity.

June 26, 2011 Read more

Scientists pioneer nanoscale nuclear materials testing capability

Scientists at Berkeley Lab, the University of California at Berkeley, and Los Alamos National Laboratory have devised a nanoscale testing technique for irradiated materials that provides macroscale materials-strength properties.

June 26, 2011 Read more

Plasma physics finds novel applications in medicine

Whilst new antibiotics are being developed all the time, there's clearly a need for additional strategies to combat bacteria. One of the most recent to emerge has rather unlikely origins in a plasma physics laboratory.

June 26, 2011 Read more

The Molecular Workbench earns prestigious Science Magazine award

The Molecular Workbench is a free, open-source software tool that helps learners overcome challenges in understanding the science of atoms and molecules.

June 24, 2011 Read more

'Quantum magic' without any 'spooky action at a distance'

The quantum mechanical entanglement is at the heart of the famous quantum teleportation experiment and was referred to by Albert Einstein as "spooky action at a distance". A team of researchers used a system which does not allow for entanglement, and still found results which cannot be interpreted classically.

June 24, 2011 Read more

Mantis shrimp eye could improve high-definition CDs, DVDs

The eye of the peacock mantis shrimp has led an international team of researchers to develop a two-part waveplate that could improve CD, DVD, blu-ray and holographic technology, creating even higher definition and larger storage density.

June 24, 2011 Read more

Optical circuit enables new approach to quantum technologies

An international research group led by scientists from the University of Bristol, UK, and the Universities of Osaka and Hokkaido, Japan, has demonstrated a fundamental building block for quantum computing that could soon be employed in a range of quantum technologies.

June 24, 2011 Read more