Electrifying paper with copper nanoparticles
The Polymer Chemistry Research Group at the University of Helsinki, Finland, has succeeded in producing nano-sized metallic copper particles.
Mar 16th, 2009
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Nanoscopic probes can track down and attack cancer cells
A researcher has developed probes that can help pinpoint the location of tumors and might one day be able to directly attack cancer cells.
Mar 16th, 2009
Read moreBrain on a chip
How does the human brain run itself without any software? Find that out, say European researchers, and a whole new field of neural computing will open up. A prototype 'brain on a chip' is already working.
Mar 16th, 2009
Read moreNew organic material may speed Internet access
An international team of researchers has developed an organic material with an unprecedented combination of high optical quality and strong ability to mediate light-light interaction and has engineered the integration of this material with silicon technology so it can be used in optical telecommunication devices.
Mar 15th, 2009
Read moreCall for Contributions: NanoEurope Symposium 25 / 26 November 2009
Submit a proposal either for a short oral presentation or for a poster contribution and present breaking results, ongoing research projects, and speculative or innovative work in progress.
Mar 14th, 2009
Read moreLight-bending metamaterial could lead to superlenses, invisibility cloaks
Researchers at Rice University have created a metamaterial that could light the way toward high-powered optics, ultra-efficient solar cells and even cloaking devices.
Mar 13th, 2009
Read moreNovel electrochemical method for locating microscale objects as they move through a liquid
Researchers were able to use an array of microelectrodes to follow the two-dimensional motion of a tiny, individual basalt sphere in space and time.
Mar 13th, 2009
Read moreEU 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 moreQuantum dots and nanomaterials: Ingredients for better lighting and more reliable power
Imagine 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 greening of propane
The 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 moreIon beam experiments for materials
Three 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 moreLessons from a frustrated magnet
Scientists 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 more'Self-correcting' gates advance quantum computing
Two 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 moreTheory makes predictions about latest high-temp superconductor
An 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 moreFirst high-resolution images of earliest stages of bone, tooth and shell formation
Researchers 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 moreSemiconductor industry recognizes Professor Anantha Chandrakasan and Professor Kang Wang
The 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
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