A new European FP7 project aims to develop cost effective and highly efficient solar cells with silicon nano-rods. Funded with EUR2.9 million from the European Union, project ROD_SOL is coordinated by the Institut fuer Photonische Technologien(IPHT) in Jena, Germany.
Jan 24th, 2009
Read moreUC Riverside chemists have designed a catalyst that allows hydrogenated oils to be made while minimizing the production of trans fats.
Jan 23rd, 2009
Read moreThe money goes towards funding work on a new material discovered at Cornell called Nanoparticle Ionic Materials.
Jan 23rd, 2009
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Scientists have developed a 'whispering gallery microcavity' based on plasmons - electromagnetic waves that race across the surfaces of metals.
Jan 23rd, 2009
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The U.S. Department of Energy?s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory received grants from DOE and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) totaling $28 million to support an X-ray Crystallography Research Resource at the Laboratory?s National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS).
Jan 23rd, 2009
Read moreThe award is intended for a European-based scientist with less than ten years post-doctoral experience. The award will be presented to an early career scientist with a concept for creative interdisciplinary research.
Jan 23rd, 2009
Read moreThe NFFA (Nano Foundries and Fine Analysis) Design Study of FP7-Research Infrastructures has issued a Call for additional project contributors.
Jan 23rd, 2009
Read moreAttend the UK dissemination event for the observatoryNANO in London on the 19th March 2009 and learn about new nanoscience and nanotechnology developments in different industrial sectors and what socio-economic impacts these are having on the global market.
Jan 23rd, 2009
Read moreThis manageably sized dictionary covers theory, experiment, industrial practice and applications for nanotechnology, colloid, and interface science, as well as much of what is now termed materials science.
Jan 23rd, 2009
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A nanoproduct made from silver and calcium phosphate and developed by ETH Zurich researchers is lethal to bacteria. Its special feature is that the bacteria themselves invoke and dispense this disinfectant effect.
Jan 23rd, 2009
Read moreA UK consortium of scientists, led by the Institute of Occupational Medicine, Edinburgh, has published a key report examining whether high aspect ratio nanoparticles (HARN) should raise the same concerns as asbestos fibres. HARN includes materials such as carbon nanotubes (CNT) and metal nanowires.
Jan 23rd, 2009
Read moreNeue Studie untersucht Nanomaterialien in Lebensmitteln: Bei Verpackungen interessant, fuer die Ernaehrung nur in Ausnahmefaellen sinnvoll.
Jan 23rd, 2009
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In order to get away from traditional chip designs which are, in a sense, one-dimensional, modified layer by layer, chip designers need to start modifying devices to vary on a three-dimensional scale. For that, they need a different simulation engine.
Jan 23rd, 2009
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A team of scientists has discovered a new type of soliton excitation in a Josephson junction that could be used to measure time dilation effects similar to those in Einstein's special relativity
Jan 23rd, 2009
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Researchers from RIKEN's Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science in Wako, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Hyogo and Kyoto University, have uncovered an intriguing interplay between the arrangement of atomic spins and atomic interactions in the metallic compound Mo3Sb7.
Jan 23rd, 2009
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For the first time, scientists have successfully teleported information between two separate atoms in unconnected enclosures a meter apart - a significant milestone in the global quest for practical quantum information processing.
Jan 22nd, 2009
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