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Researchers make breakthrough in hyper-entangled Schroedinger cat state

Ten-qubit hyper-entangled Schroedinger cat state was successfully generated recently by a research group from the Quantum Physics and Quantum Information (QPQI) Division of the Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale at the University of Science and Technology of China.

May 18, 2010 Read more

World's smallest nanopump could be used to sample or treat single cells

A team of engineers has created the world's smallest pump. The minute device, similar in size to a human red blood cell, is powered by an electrode made from something that doesn't usually conduct electricity - glass.

May 17, 2010 Read more

Stripes offer clues to superconductivity

New images of iron-based superconductors are providing telltale clues to the origin of superconductivity in a class of ceramic materials known as pnictides. The images reveal that electrons responsible for the superconducting currents in some pnictides tend to flow primarily along the boundaries between the crystal grains that make up the superconductors.

May 17, 2010 Read more

Nanotechnology for biomedical applications - free webinar

Find out more about current developments, network with other researchers and share research interests in a free online workshop on 'Nanotechnology for Biomedical Applications' organized by the ICPC Nanonet project on Friday May 28th.

May 17, 2010 Read more

High-performance photocatalyst surface-treated with cesium

Researchers at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Japan have developed a tungsten oxide photocatalyst that provides a significantly higher quantum yield under visible light than conventional photocatalysts.

May 17, 2010 Read more

Survey results on micro- and nanotechnology in Germany

The 'Micro/Nano Atlas of Germany' gives a complete and unique overview over the micro- and nanotechnology industry in Germany, including research activities and priorities in six federal states and 38 regional clusters.

May 17, 2010 Read more

Speeding up broadband spectroscopy

Birgitta Bernhardt, a graduate student at of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Munich, will report on a novel use of two frequency comb devices simultaneously to record broadband spectra, which speeds up the task of recording a spectrum by a factor of one million compared to the traditional Fourier transform spectroscopy.

May 17, 2010 Read more

Brightest X-ray machine in the world probes molecules

Becoming operational last fall, the first experimental results from the LCLS are starting to appear at scientific meetings. In San Jose, Li Fang of Western Michigan University will report on how the powerful LCLS X-rays can be used to strip electrons away from a nitrogen molecule.

May 17, 2010 Read more

Laser cooling of solids for sensitive sensors

Mansoor Sheik-Bahae of the University of New Mexico and colleagues are developing a technique to cool semiconductors loads that would use a vibration-free solid-state technology: laser cooling, which has traditionally been used to lower the temperature of dilute gases but can also cool transparent solids doped with rare-earth ions by kicking out energetic photons.

May 17, 2010 Read more

Using light to inscribe nanoscale plastic parts

One of the biggest obstacles in microscopy and in micro-fabrication is the so-called diffraction limit. Now scientists at the University of Maryland have pushed this limit, achieving pattern features with a size as small as one-twentieth of the wavelength.

May 17, 2010 Read more

Scientists home in on lithium battery safety flaws

Scientists at Cambridge have developed a simple, accurate way of 'seeing' chemistry in action inside a lithium-ion battery.

May 16, 2010 Read more

UCLA gets $5.5 million from Defense agency to create new rotating microscale motors

The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has been awarded $5.5 million from the U.S. Defense Department's central research and development agency to advance MEMS technology for use in defense systems.

May 14, 2010 Read more

Fishing for new drug targets with molecule-sized bait

UCLA researchers and their collaborators have developed a method that could open the door for investigations into the function of half of all proteins in the human body.

May 14, 2010 Read more

Nanoscientists reveal secret of nanoparticle crystallization in real time

A collaboration between the Advanced Photon Source and Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne National Laboratory has 'seen' the crystallization of nanoparticles in unprecedented detail

May 14, 2010 Read more

Nineteen Albany high school students graduate from groundbreaking 'NanoHigh' program

Nearly 60 students have completed first-of-its-kind educational initiative developed jointly by the UAlbany NanoCollege and City School District of Albany.

May 14, 2010 Read more

New water-splitting catalyst found

Expanding on work published two years ago, MIT's Daniel Nocera and his associates have found yet another formulation, based on inexpensive and widely available materials, that can efficiently catalyze the splitting of water molecules using electricity.

May 14, 2010 Read more