In a groundbreaking study this week in Cell, Brandeis researchers reveal for the first time computationally and experimentally the molecular pathway that a protein takes to cross the energy barrier, the 'climb over the mountain'.
Dec 10th, 2009
Read moreThe Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) is proud to announce an important milestone in the history of crystallography - the archiving of the 500,000th small molecule crystal structure to the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD).
Dec 10th, 2009
Read moreThink of it as an emergency room exam for cells. In the span of a few minutes, scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory can produce three-dimensional CAT scans of entire cells, revealing their internal structure down to the smallest organelle.
Dec 10th, 2009
Read moreScientists at Argonne National Laboratory are developing a way to control the Casimir force, a quantum mechanical force, which attracts objects when they are only hundred nanometers apart.
Dec 10th, 2009
Read moreOrganic photovoltaics (OPV) is an innovative solar cell technology based on conductive plastic materials such as polymers. Current trends and the latest developments in this field will be on display at LOPE-C in Frankfurt, Germany from May 31 - June 2, 2010.
Dec 10th, 2009
Read moreTwo scientists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a method to control the buildup of hydrogen fluoride gas during the growth of precision crystals needed for applications such as superconductors, optical devices, and microelectronics.
Dec 10th, 2009
Read moreResearchers from the School of Computing at the University of Kent have made significant advances in molecular computing.
Dec 10th, 2009
Read moreCSIRO researchers have set themselves the goal of producing a new generation of super-strong, lightweight polymer composite materials for use in aircraft, road vehicles, trains and ferries.
Dec 10th, 2009
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Stanford engineers have built what they believe is a chip with the most advanced computing and storage elements made of carbon nanotubes to date by devising a way to root out the stubborn complication of nanotubes that cause short circuits.
Dec 9th, 2009
Read moreIn a study that elevates the role of entropy in creating order, research led by the University of Michigan shows that certain pyramid shapes can spontaneously organize into complex quasicrystals.
Dec 9th, 2009
Read moreResearchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, Purdue University and IBM have successfully grown silicon-germanium semiconducting nanowires for potential use in next-generation transistors.
Dec 9th, 2009
Read moreDas Projekt 'Flexible active-matrix cells with selectively poled bifunctional polymer-ceramic nanocomposite for pressure and temperature sensing skin' wurde von der Forschungsgruppe um Prof. Dr. Bernd Ploss, FH Jena, gemeinsam mit Forschungsgruppen der University of Cambridge, der Johannes Kepler Universitaet Linz, des Joanneum Research Weiz und der Princeton University erarbeitet.
Dec 9th, 2009
Read moreConcept chip from Intel Labs is aimed at scaling on-chip performance, communication and power consumption for decades to come.
Dec 9th, 2009
Read moreThe Silver Nanotechnology Working Group (SNWG), an industry effort intended to foster the collection of data on silver and nanotechnology in order to advance the science and public understanding of the beneficial uses of silver nanoparticles in a wide-range of consumer and industrial products, made a detailed presentation to the recent EPA Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) meeting to discuss the topic 'Evaluation of Hazard and Exposure Associated with Nanosilver and Other Nanometal Oxide Pesticide Products'.
Dec 9th, 2009
Read moreA joint meeting was held by the members of the Nanotechnology Business Group and the Nano Science and Technology Consortium (NSTC) at the New Friends Club, New Delhi on Sunday, 29th November.
Dec 9th, 2009
Read moreEncouraged by the success of the 1st and 2nd IEEE International NanoElectronics Conference (INEC) held in Singapore in 2006 and Shanghai in 2008, the 3rd INEC will be held in City University of Hong Kong from January 3 to 8, 2010.
Dec 9th, 2009
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