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Three ORNL researchers receive presidential early career award

Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers Jeremy Busby, De-en Jiang and Sergei Kalinin are among 13 Department of Energy scientists to receive the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, or PECASE.

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Nanogenerators grow strong enough to power small conventional electronics

Blinking numbers on a liquid-crystal display (LCD) often indicate that a device's clock needs resetting. But in the laboratory of Zhong Lin Wang at Georgia Tech, the blinking number on a small LCD signals the success of a five-year effort to power conventional electronic devices with nanoscale generators that harvest mechanical energy from the environment using an array of tiny nanowires.

November 8, 2010 Read more

Scientists develop green technique to transform carbon dioxide into useful compounds

Scientists at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) have reported another breakthrough in their quest to develop green technologies for pharmaceuticals synthesis. They have devised a new environmentally friendly technique to transform carbon dioxide, an abundant and renewable carbon source, into highly functionalized propiolic acids, which are basic building blocks for the synthesis of a wide range of pharmaceuticals such as cholesterol-reducing drugs and peptidomimetic and other small molecule inhibitors that may be used, for example, to kill cancer cells.

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Two Berkeley Lab scientists win PECASE award

Two scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) were among the 85 researchers named by President Barack Obama to receive the prestigious Presidential Early Career for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) Award, the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on early-career researchers.

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Fish gelatin: Ultra-high-tech biomedical uses ahead?

Natural gelatin, extracted from the shiny skin of a seagoing fish called Alaskan pollock, may someday be put to intriguing new biomedical uses.

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Scientist chronicle nanoparticles' journey from the lungs into the body

Findings could help investigators develop agents for pulmonary drug delivery and provide key information for use in air pollution control.

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Nobel Laureate Robert Curl lectures on 'A Brief History of Carbon' on Nov. 15 at Spelman College

Robert Curl, Ph.D., awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 as one of the co-discoverers of carbon cage compounds called the fullerenes, will discuss the timeline of human experience with elemental carbon and its chemistry during the lecture 'A Brief History of Carbon'.

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Graphene gets a Teflon makeover

University of Manchester scientists have created a new material which could replace or compete with Teflon in thousands of everyday applications.

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Quantum memory for communication networks of the future

Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen have succeeded in storing quantum information using two 'entangled' light beams. Quantum memory or information storage is a necessary element of future quantum communication networks.

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Reaktionsweg zur Herstellung graphenartiger Materialien

Empa-Forschende haben mit einer oberflaechenchemischen Methode graphenartige Materialien synthetisiert und den entsprechenden Reaktionsmechanismus im Detail aufgeklaert.

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Graphene: Singles and the few

A timely review analyzing the correlation of synthesis methods and physical properties of single-layer and few-layered graphene flakes.

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SEMATECH researchers to present breakthrough innovations in III-V MOSFETs, FinFETs and resistive RAMs at IEDM

Revealing research breakthroughs, engineers from SEMATECH's Front End Processes (FEP) program will present technical papers at the 56th annual IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) from December 6-8, 2010, at the Hilton in San Francisco, CA.

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Plasma as a fast optical switch

Just like an electrical switch allows the flow of electricity into electrical circuits, relativistic transparency in plasma can act like a fast optical switch allowing the flow of light through otherwise opaque plasma.

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NIMS signs MOU with Inter University Accelerator Centre of India on nanomaterial fabrication by ion beams

The Inter University Accelerator Centre (IUAC), New Delhi, India, and the Quantum Beam Center, NIMS, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on collaborative research for 'the Fabrication and modification of nanomaterials by ion beams'.

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NIMS and University College London agree cooperation on organic nanomaterials, computational materials science

This agreement will not only reinforce the existing collaboration between UCL and NIMS in the field of computational materials science, organic nanomaterials and photocatalytic materials, but also envisage new collaboration and exchange of researchers.

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Nanotechnology exhaust gas catalyst has 10x higher thermal agglomeration resistance than conventional materials

A research team at the International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA) in Japan has developed an exhaust gas catalyst material with approximately 10 times greater thermal agglomeration resistance than conventional materials. This dramatic improvement in thermal agglomeration resistance opens the road to a large reduction in the amount of rare metals used in exhaust gas purification technologies.

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