Using the latest in aberration-corrected electron microscopy, researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and their colleagues have obtained the first images that distinguish individual light atoms such as boron, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen.
Mar 24th, 2010
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A team of cardiologists, materials scientists, and bioengineers have created and tested a new type of implantable device for measuring the heart's electrical output that they say is a vast improvement over current devices. The new device represents the first use of flexible silicon technology for a medical application.
Mar 24th, 2010
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This work marks the first time scientists have succeeded in 'programming' particles to join in this manner and offers a type of architecture that could enhance the creation of synthetic materials.
Mar 24th, 2010
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Arrhythmic hearts soon may beat in time again, with minimal surgical invasion, thanks to flexible electronics technology. These biocompatible silicon devices could mark the beginning of a new wave of surgical electronics.
Mar 24th, 2010
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The popular dietary supplement vitamin E, loaded into special medicated contact lenses, can keep glaucoma medicine near the eye - where it can treat that common disease - almost 100 times longer than possible with current commercial lenses, scientists reported here today.
Mar 24th, 2010
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At invitation of the Innovation Society, St.Gallen, on March 18th, the national FramingNano Conference took place in the Stade de Suisse in Bern. Numerous stakeholders from industries, authorities and associations discussed the proposal for a European Governance Platform for a responsible development of nanosciences and nanotechnologies.
Mar 24th, 2010
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Wissenschaftler praesentieren erstmals eine optische Tarnkappe fuer dreidimensionale Objekte.
Mar 24th, 2010
Read moreThe ALD thin coating considerably reduces the need for aluminium in packaging solutions.
Mar 24th, 2010
Read moreAn update on current renewable energy projects in Germany and the U.S. was the focus today at the 2nd German American Energy Conference hosted at the House of German Business.
Mar 24th, 2010
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The field of synthetic biology is popping up in the headlines with surprising regularity: While some see it as a normal development for biotechnology, others speak of divine creation in the laboratory. The German Ethics Council recently debated the issue in a public panel discussion in Berlin.
Mar 24th, 2010
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The Molecular materials research group within the Department of Applied Physics in collaboration with VTT and Royal Institute of Technology show the first example of light-weight but mechanically strong nanocomposite material mimicking the nacreous shells that allow upscaling for industrial processes.
Mar 24th, 2010
Read morePromising research on superconducting materials, near infra-red spectroscopy, and nanotechnology has earned three faculty at Tufts University's School of Engineering early career awards from the National Science Foundation and U.S. Department of Energy.
Mar 24th, 2010
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Like playing a game of scissors-paper-rock, a team of scientists has used laser light to control x-ray beams - by first changing the material medium through which the x-rays pass.
Mar 24th, 2010
Read moreThe Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Asylum Research, a technology leader in scanning probe/atomic force microscopy (SPM/AFM), are co-organizing the International Workshop for Scanning Probe Microscopy for Energy Applications, to be held at ORNL September 15-17, 2010.
Mar 24th, 2010
Read moreUniversity of Cincinnati engineering researchers create tiny pools without walls with programmable microfluidic systems.
Mar 23rd, 2010
Read moreUCLA team couples quantum dots, silicon for room-temperature functionality.
Mar 23rd, 2010
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