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Changes in energy R+D needed to combat climate change

A new assessment of future scenarios that limit the extent of global warming cautions that unless current imbalances in R+D portfolios for the development of new, efficient, and clean energy technologies are redressed, greenhouse gas emission reduction targets are unlikely to be met, or met only at considerable costs.

October 25, 2010 Read more

Bio trifft Nano - Quantenpunkte als Lichtantennen in Photosynthesesystemen

Unsere Versuche, Sonnenenergie zu nutzen, sind bisher noch sehr ineffektiv. Wahre Meister in dieser Disziplin sind dagegen photosynthetische Pflanzen, Algen und Bakterien. Die Wissenschaft versucht, diesen Organismen nachzueifern. Wissenschaftlern haben jetzt einen neuen Ansatz zur Steigerung der Lichtausbeute entwickelt.

October 25, 2010 Read more

Monitoring lop-sided molecular encounters: new method detects binding interactions in blood samples

Researchers have developed a new method that can detect and quantify interactions between molecules of widely different sizes. The technique makes use of "Microscale Thermophoresis" (MST), which is sensitive to the electrical charge of molecule changes of the hydration spheres (bound layers of water) associated with them.

October 25, 2010 Read more

SEAL - A powerful joint European project to foster the European semiconductor equipment industry

The objective of this project is to speed up the market maturity of innovative and production-ready equipment and to foster cost-efficient equipment development in strong cooperation with equipment users, materials manufacturers, and IC manufacturers.

October 25, 2010 Read more

Neues DFG-Projekt erforscht Graphen

Weil Graphen ein so vielversprechender Stoff ist, hat die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft ein Schwerpunktprogramm eingerichtet. Dazu gehoert ein gerade bewilligte Vorhaben, das seine Herstellung optimieren soll.

October 25, 2010 Read more

Trapping charged particles with laser light

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics have succeeded in storing an ion in an optical trap for the first time. Their experiment opens new perspectives, for example for using controllable quantum systems in the simulation of condensed matter properties.

October 25, 2010 Read more

Study describes a tabletop source of bright, coherent X-rays

Researchers describe a tabletop instrument that produces synchrotron X-rays, whose energy and quality rivals that produced by some of the largest X-ray facilities in the world.

October 24, 2010 Read more

Green Carbon Center takes all-inclusive view of energy

Rice University think tank will strategize on environmentally sound policies on oil, gas, coal.

October 22, 2010 Read more

Professor will teach virtual nanotechnology course this fall semester in Second Life

On Mondays at 10 a.m. this fall semester, graduate students in the Nanomedicine in Healthcare course at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) log into an online virtual world known as Second Life, activate their computer-generated personae or avatars and head off to class.

October 22, 2010 Read more

Biomedical researchers develop more reliable, less expensive synthetic graft material

FlexBone seen as potential replacement for current bone transplantations.

October 22, 2010 Read more

Fighting cancer with gold nanoparticles

Researchers at the MIRA Institute for Biomedical Technology and Technical Medicine are developing a method of detecting and treating tumours with the help of gold particles with dimensions measure in mere nanometers.

October 22, 2010 Read more

Einladung zur Diskussionsveranstaltung: Nanotechnologie - Innovationsmotor fuer den Standort Deutschland

Die Hans-Boeckler-Stiftung laedt mit der Industriegewerkschaft Bergbau, Chemie, Energie dazu ein, die innovationspolitischen Herausforderungen der Nanotechnologie fuer den Standort Deutschland zu diskutieren. Anlass ist die Vorstellung der neuen gemeinsamen Studie 'Nanotechnologie - Innovationsmotor fuer den Standort Deutschland" der VDI Technologiezentrum GmbH und der Prognos AG.

October 22, 2010 Read more

Caught in a nano-trap

ETH Zurich scientists have developed a comparatively simple non-contact method to hold nanoparticles at a given location in a liquid for any length of time, thus enabling them to be studied at leisure, something which had previously only been possible using elaborate methods.

October 22, 2010 Read more

Professor's research on graphene shares connection with Nobel Laureates

When two scientists were recently awarded the Nobel Prize for physics for their work with graphene, a Kansas State University professor was thrilled with the recognition of the new two-dimensional material.

October 22, 2010 Read more

Researchers examine effects of household titanium dioxide nanoparticles on marine ecosystems

While swimmers and boaters along any shore consider the slimy green film that coats everything from rocks to docks as a nuisance, University of New Haven (UNH) chemical engineering student Nicole Reardon and Assistant Professor Shannon Ciston, Ph.D. think otherwise. They view the slime, or biofilm, as a complex community that may hold the key to informing humanity of the true environmental impact of the chemical nanoparticles that find their way from area kitchens, baths and garages into Long Island Sound.

October 22, 2010 Read more

An engineered directional nanofilm mimics nature's curious feats

In nature, textured surfaces provide some plants the ability to trap insects and pollen, certain insects the ability to walk on water, and the gecko the ability to climb walls. Being able to mimic these features at a larger scale would spur new advances in renewable energy and medicine.

October 22, 2010 Read more