Subatomic particles called neutrons are poised to play a big role in fighting HIV, slowing global warming, and improving manufacturing processes. The reason: They are the focus of a process called neutron scattering that provides unprecedented ways to study the chemistry of a wide range of important materials, including coal and biological cells.
Feb 24th, 2010
Read moreScientists are reporting an advance toward scavenging energy from walking, breathing, and other natural body movements to power electronic devices like cell phones and heart pacemakers.
Feb 24th, 2010
Read moreUniversity of Florida engineers have achieved what they label in a new paper a 'nearly perfect hydrophobic interface' by reproducing, on small bits of flat plastic, the shape and patterns of the minute hairs that grow on the bodies of spiders.
Feb 24th, 2010
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Using large-scale supercomputer calculations, researchers have analyzed how the placement of metallic contacts on graphene changes the electron transport properties of the material as a factor of junction length, width and orientation.
Feb 24th, 2010
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Scientists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory have obtained the first glimpse of miniscule air bubbles that keep water from wetting a super non-stick surface.
Feb 24th, 2010
Read moreA group of Biophysicists at LMU Munich hav developed a unique technology called 'microscale thermophoresis' that allows to measure intereactions under close-to-native conditions, thus improving the decision making process in drug development.
Feb 24th, 2010
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Dartmouth researcher Ivan Aprahamian and his team have developed a new molecular switch that changes its configuration as a function of the pH of the environment.
Feb 24th, 2010
Read moreChemists at the University of Helsinki have managed to manufacture new polymer-stabilised silver nanoparticles. The result is significant because the antimicrobial characteristics of silver are used in textiles, floor coatings and paints even though the impact on health of silver nanoparticles are not entirely known.
Feb 24th, 2010
Read moreA symposium which will reveal new methods for making future low-power, lighter, smarter and more economical computers and mobile phones will take place at the University of Southampton next week and has attracted almost 100 delegates.
Feb 24th, 2010
Read moreElliot Scientific's YouTube channel presents video footage captured by scientists at the University of St. Andrews using M Squared Lasers' novel Firefly-IR laser to dramatically demonstrate the advanced capabilities of the Firefly-IR system in remote sensing, imaging and molecular spectroscopy.
Feb 24th, 2010
Read moreNach dem Vorbild der schnellen Informationsverarbeitung im menschlichen Gehirn konzipiert ein Konsortium europaeischer Forschungseinrichtungen eine neue Hochleistungs-Rechentechnologie.
Feb 24th, 2010
Read moreKey materials providers of the semiconductor industry joined hands with IME and members of the Consortium in the development of a cost-effective TSV process integration and manufacturing capability on 300mm wafers.
Feb 24th, 2010
Read moreDie Miniaturisierung von elektronischen Bauteilen verlangt nach immer sensibleren Messgeraeten. Wissenschaftler vom Departement Physik der Universitaet Basel haben nun die Messmethode der Rasterkraftmikroskopie weiterentwickelt, um atomare Wechselwirkungskraefte in einer bisher unerreichten Genauigkeit zu messen.
Feb 24th, 2010
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Physicists at Brown University have documented for the first time a quantum-level phenomenon that occurs to electrons subjected to magnetism in a superconducting material.
Feb 23rd, 2010
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Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered that, under the right conditions, newly developed nanocrystalline materials exhibit surprising activity in the tiny spaces between the geometric clusters of atoms called nanocrystals from which they are made.
Feb 23rd, 2010
Read moreA class of molecules whose size, structure and chemical composition have been optimized for photonic use could provide the demanding combination of properties needed to serve as the foundation for low-power, high-speed all-optical signal processing.
Feb 23rd, 2010
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