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Nanotechnology battery uses salinity difference between fresh- and seawater to create electricity

Stanford researchers have developed a rechargeable battery that uses freshwater and seawater to create electricity. Aided by nanotechnology, the battery employs the difference in salinity between fresh and saltwater to generate a current. A power station might be built wherever a river flows into the ocean.

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New ERC initiative helps scientists to bring their research much closer to market

Innovation is high on the EU agenda, and the European Research Council (ERC) is helping secure this target by introducing a new funding initiative called 'Proof of Concept'. Under this new initiative, funded under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), researchers who have already secured ERC grants could receive up to EUR 150,000 each to bring their research much closer to market.

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Twinkle, twinkle, quantum dot - new particles can change colors and tag molecules

Engineers at Ohio State University have invented a new kind of nano-particle that shines in different colors to tag molecules in biomedical tests.

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Next-generation chemical mapping on the nanoscale

A pixel is worth a thousand words? Not exactly how the saying goes, but in this case, it holds true: scientists at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry have pioneered a new chemical mapping method that provides unprecedented insight into materials at the nanoscale.

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Data density in random access memory could be radically increased

Scientists from the Forschungszentrum Juelich and the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in Halle have discovered the basis for the next generation of memory devices. In a ferroelectric material, they have, for the first time, been able to observe directly how dipoles, which store the information in this material, continuously rotate and therefore may be organised in circular structures.

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Universities and DOE National Laboratories join forces to understand the nucleus of an atom

Find out about this collaboration's efforts and accomplishments toward completing a portrait of the nuclear landscape.

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Light marker describes quantum gas atom by atom

The spin of individual atoms in an optical crystal can be modified so that they can serve as quantum bits or explain unsolved quantum phenomena.

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Heavy metals open path to high temperature nanomagnets and radically smaller storage

Magnets made of just a few metallic atoms could make it possible to build radically smaller storage devices and have also recently been proposed as components for spintronics devices. Now a chemistry student at the University of Copenhagen has demonstrated that molecular magnets using the metals ruthenium and osmium retain their magnetic properties at higher temperatures.

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Intech launches open access journal "Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology"

InTech, the Open Access publisher, has announced the launch of a new Open Access journal, "Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology". The quarterly journal will be available online for free full-text download.

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High tech microscope to advance nanotechnology research in South Africa

The South Africa Department of Science and Technology has acquired a world-class High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy (HRTEM) that will push the frontiers of nanotechnology research.

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Carbon nanotube transistors for memory storage holds key to 'green' gadgets

Fast, low-energy memory for MP3s, smartphones and cameras could become a reality thanks to University scientists.

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Biomimetische Haftstrukturen im Grossformat

Dass Geckos oder Spinnen an Waenden entlanglaufen oder kopfueber an der Decke haengen, liegt an den besonders kleinen Oberflaechenstrukturen ihrer Fuesse. Das rasche Haften und problemlose Abloesen durch diese Strukturen inspiriert Wissenschaftler dazu, diese Faehigkeiten kuenstlich im Labor nachzustellen. Den Forschern am INM - Leibniz-Institut fuer Neue Materialien ist es gelungen, diese kuenstliche Struktur mit einem speziellen Verfahren auf Folien beliebiger Laenge mit einem knappen Meter Breite zu bringen.

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13th Leti Annual Review will present latest breakthroughs In healthcare, energy, and information technologies

CEA-Leti will present the outlook for the European electronics industry along with the latest developments for healthcare, energy, and information technologies at the 13th Leti Annual Review on the MINATEC campus in Grenoble, June 27-28, 2011.

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JRC at the US-EU Joint workshop "Bridging nanoEHS research efforts"

European and US scientists and policymakers as well as industry researchers met at a joint US-EU workshop to discuss environmental, health and safety (EHS) concerns related to nanomaterials and nanotechnology-based products.

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Free webinar: Nanomaterials for Biological Applications

This online workshop on 'Nanomaterials for Biological Applications' will enable nanoscientists working in this field to meet and find out about each other's expertise and research interests.

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Researchers identify huge potential of nanocrystals in fuel cells

The addition of extremely small crystals to solid electrolyte material has the potential to considerably raise the efficiency of fuel cells. Researchers at TU Delft were the first to document this accurately.

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