EU project to develop nanomaterials for more efficient solar cells
A new EU-funded project is turning to nanotechnology in a bid to dramatically ramp up the efficiency of solar cells.
Mar 13th, 2009
Read moreA new EU-funded project is turning to nanotechnology in a bid to dramatically ramp up the efficiency of solar cells.
Mar 13th, 2009
Read moreImagine flexible lighting devices manufactured by using printing techniques. Imagine solar power sources equally as reliable and as portable as any conventional power source.
Mar 13th, 2009
Read moreThe process to turn propane into industrially necessary propylene has been expensive and environmentally unfriendly. That was until scientists at U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory devised a greener way to take this important step in chemical catalysis.
Mar 13th, 2009
Read moreThree new experimental units for conducting materials research are being inaugurated today at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt.
Mar 13th, 2009
Read moreScientists in Japan and Korea have developed a quantum theory that explains how temperature and quantum fluctuations - a direct consequence of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle - affect the properties of materials called multiferroics.
Mar 12th, 2009
Read moreTwo Dartmouth researchers have found a way to develop more robust 'quantum gates', which are the elementary building blocks of quantum circuits.
Mar 12th, 2009
Read moreAn international team of physicists from the United States and China this week offered a new theory to both explain and predict the complex quantum behavior of a new class of high-temperature superconductors.
Mar 12th, 2009
Read moreResearchers used the world's most advanced electron microscope to make three-dimensional images of the nano-particles that are at the heart of the process.
Mar 12th, 2009
Read moreThe Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today announced the recipients of its 2009 University Researcher Awards, Dr. Anantha Chandrakasan of MIT and Dr. Kang Wang of UCLA. The awards were presented at the annual SIA Washington conference on March 12.
Mar 12th, 2009
Read moreUm den Transfer der wissenschaftlichen Nanotechnologieforschung in die industrielle Anwendung zu erleichtern, haben die IHKs der Metropolregion Stuttgart gemeinsam mit dem Fraunhofer IAO das Anwendungscluster Nanotechnologie initiiert.
Mar 12th, 2009
Read moreAn international research team, involving Professor Rajeev Ahuja at Uppsala University and researchers in the USA, set out to understand the mechanism behind the catalytic effects of carbon nanomaterials.
Mar 12th, 2009
Read moreFrom June 17-18, 2009 in Saarbruecken, Germany, prominent experts will be discussing ethical nanotechnology issues at the SIZE MATTERS 2009 conference from the perspective of the natural sciences, medicine, philosophy, theology and law.
Mar 12th, 2009
Read moreResearchers at the University of Miami and at the Universities of Tokyo and Tohoku, Japan, have been able to prove the existence of a 'spin battery', a battery that is 'charged' by applying a large magnetic field to nano-magnets in a device called a magnetic tunnel junction.
Mar 12th, 2009
Read moreExploring the new measurement and materials' characterization techniques needed to apply nanotechnology effectively to global energy challenges is the aim of an international workshop on April 26-28, 2009, at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering at the University of Albany in New York.
Mar 12th, 2009
Read moreDepartment of Physics of the University of Milan shows that nanofluids can act as smart materials that can be switched on and off to dissipate heat efficiently or poorly.
Mar 12th, 2009
Read moreMIT engineers have created a kind of beltway that allows for the rapid transit of electrical energy through a well-known battery material, an advance that could usher in smaller, lighter batteries - for cell phones and other devices - that could recharge in seconds rather than hours.
Mar 12th, 2009
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