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New model paves the way for the prediction of the properties of nanoparticle ensembles

A team of scientists led by Eugenia Kumacheva of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Toronto has discovered a way to predict the organization of nanoparticles in larger forms by treating them much the same as ensembles of molecules formed from standard chemical reactions.

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VDI-Nachwuchspreis Nanotechnik im Rahmen der Nanofair verliehen

Noel Wilck erhielt die Auszeichnung fuer seinen wissenschaftlichen Beitrag zur Steigerung des Wirkungsgrades von Solarzellen.

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Organic nanowires open up possibilities for nanoelectronics

Swiss and German materials scientists have created simple networks of organic nanowires for future electronic and optoelectronic components. The successful approach synthesises the complex and incredibly thin nanowire structures, and joins them to electrically conducting links (essentially creating an electronic circuit).

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The proton - smaller than thought

An international team measures the charge radius of the hydrogen nucleus and stumbles across some mysteries of physics.

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Graphen auf Ladungsentzug

Immer kleiner, schneller und belastbarer - so soll die Zukunft der Elektronik aussehen. Forscher des Max-Planck-Instituts fuer Festkoerperforschung in Stuttgart tragen mit aktuellen Arbeiten dazu bei, dass sich diese Hoffnung erfuellt. Sie haben Wege gefunden, Graphen von elektrischen Ladungen zu befreien.

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Launch of FP7 MiSpiA photonics project

MiSPiA (Microelectronic Single-Photon 3D Imaging Arrays for low-light high-speed Safety and Security Applications) is a new Collaborative research project funded by the European Commission in its Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007-2013), and was launched in June 2010 under the coordination of the Politecnico di Milano.

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The brain of the fly - a high-speed computer

Neurobiologists use state-of-the-art methods to decode the basics of motion detection.

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Fibers that can hear and sing

MIT researchers pass a milestone on the path to sophisticated fibers that interact with their surroundings in new ways.

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Researchers apply computing power to crack egg shell problem

Researchers at the University of Warwick and the University of Sheffield have applied computing power to crack a problem in egg shell formation. The work may also give a partial answer to the age old question 'what came first the chicken or the egg'?

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Prediction markets to facilitate real-time science?

Kaggle, a web platform for data prediction competitions, has just issued a press release that touts the usefulness of open prediction technology for data-heavy scientific problems. The platform allows researchers and organizations to post their problem and have it scrutinized by the world's best statisticians to predict the future (produce the best forecasts) or predict the past (find the best insights hiding in data).

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Thai labs build capabilities in agricultural nanotechnology

Thailand's National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), and Department of Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives have signed a research collaborative MoU to identify and initiate agricultural research activities. The initial phase of the collaboration will focus on nanotechnology particularly in the area of food packaging and encapsulation technology for control release of fertilizers.

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Reducing lithography nanopatterns to 6 nanometers in size

NanoNed researcher Vadim Sidorkin is the first in the world to succeed in patterning a substrate with markings only 6 nanometres in size and only 14 nanometres apart. A spacing of 14 nanometres, would increase in the capacity of the memory chips of, for example, new generation mobile phones tenfold.

July 10, 2010 Read more

DNA through graphene nanopores

A team of researchers from Delft University of Technology announces a new type of nanopore devices that may significantly impact the way we screen DNA molecules, for example to read off their sequence.

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Die Anziehungskraft des Goldes

Elektrische Spannung reguliert Bindung von DNA.

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Explained: Phonons

When trying to control the way heat moves through solids, it is often useful to think of it as a flow of particles.

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Nanogenerator for mechanical energy harvesting

The journal, Nano Letters, recently published an article highlighting the fascinating nanogenerators developed by Dr. Yong Shi, a professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Stevens Institute of Technology.

July 9, 2010 Read more