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Pens that write with light offer low-cost, rapid nanofabrication capabilities

One Chicago skyline is dazzling enough. Now imagine 15,000 of them. A Northwestern University research team has done just that -- drawing 15,000 identical skylines with tiny beams of light using an innovative nanofabrication technology called beam-pen lithography (BPL).

August 1, 2010 Read more

Unique light-controlled membrane acts like a traffic signal for gas

A new membrane developed at the University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics blocks gas from flowing through it when one color of light is shined on its surface, and permits gas to flow through when another color of light is used.

August 1, 2010 Read more

European research project aims to improve the diagnosis and therapy of brain diseases

This three-year ENIAC (European Nanoelectronics Initiative Advisory Council) project aims to achieve substantial advances in state-of-the-art medical 3D-imaging platforms by focusing on the diagnosis and therapy of serious diseases of the central nervous system and brain.

July 31, 2010 Read more

NASA talk about multifunctional nanotechnology contact lenses

Through advancements in nanotechnology, Professor Babak Parviz, from the University of Washington, will explain at a NASA talk how contact lenses have been converted into systems that can complete extraordinary tasks.

July 31, 2010 Read more

E2TAC and MTECH Laboratories to develop high-efficiency energy distribution systems

MTECH Laboratories receives $150K NSF award to demonstrate the feasibility of its novel, high-efficiency energy distribution system for large buildings.

July 31, 2010 Read more

Kinked nanopores slow DNA passage for easier sequencing

In an innovation critical to improved DNA sequencing, a markedly slower transmission of DNA through nanopores has been achieved by a team led by Sandia National Laboratories researchers.

July 30, 2010 Read more

One more step on the path to quantum computers

Ultra-strong interaction between light and matter realized.

July 30, 2010 Read more

New biodegradable nanocompound facilitates bone regeneration in cases of substantial loss

The current tendency in bone tissue engineering is developing materials that temporarily substitute for the bone while inducing its regeneration in such a way that this, temporary material, disappears as the bone recovers its space.

July 30, 2010 Read more

Nanomaterial in novel home-air treatment counters hazards from toxic drywall

A nanomaterial originally developed to fight toxic waste is now helping reduce debilitating fumes in homes with corrosive drywall.

July 30, 2010 Read more

Neue Nanostrukturen entwickelt - Selbstorganisation von Nanoteilchen zu zweidimensionalen Kristallen

Einem Team von Forschern der Uni Hamburg und des spanischen Forschungszentrums IMDEA Nanoscience ist es gelungen, Materialien auf chemischem Wege herzustellen, die sich durch Selbstorganisation zu zweidimensionalen Nanostrukturen zusammenfinden.

July 30, 2010 Read more

Polymer passage takes time

New theory aids researchers studying DNA, protein transport.

July 29, 2010 Read more

Graphene under strain creates gigantic pseudo-magnetic fields

Researchers report the creation of pseudo-magnetic fields far stronger than the strongest magnetic fields ever sustained in a laboratory - just by putting the right kind of strain onto a patch of graphene.

July 29, 2010 Read more

Behind the secrets of silk lie high-tech opportunities

A decade of research yields new uses for ancient material.

July 29, 2010 Read more

Graphene exhibits bizarre new behavior well-suited to electronic devices

Physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) have found that when graphene is stretched in a specific way it sprouts nanobubbles in which electrons behave in a bizarre way, as if they are moving in a strong magnetic field.

July 29, 2010 Read more

Nanotechnology's brightest coming to Rice for Buckyball Discovery Conference

Registration is open for Year of Nano events to be held Oct. 10-13 in honor of the 25th anniversary of the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of the carbon 60 molecule, the buckminsterfullerene, at Rice.

July 29, 2010 Read more

A proposed flow battery for grid-scale storage gets $1.6 million from ARPA-E

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, known for having one of the top research programs in the country for batteries and fuel cells for vehicle applications, has decided to enter another area in the battery world. It has been granted $1.6 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds to develop a novel storage device for the electric grid.

July 29, 2010 Read more