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Announcing the International Workshop on Nanomedicine at NanoSpain

The International Workshop on Nanomedicine will be held in parallel with the 7th NanoSpain Conference.

February 8, 2010 Read more

German-Japanese research project 'Quantum Computing in isotopically Engineered Diamond'

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (abbreviated DFG, German Research Foundation in English) and the Japan Science and Technology Agency ( JST) are launching the research project 'Quantum Computing in isotopically Engineered Diamond' aiming to novel logic devices potentially enabling faster computing and unconditionally secure communications.

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Submission deadline for Australian consultation on nanomaterials is this Friday

Last November, the Australian Secretary for Health released a public discussion paper inviting consultations on a Government proposal to strengthen regulation of industrial nanomaterials use in Australia. The deadline for submissions regarding the discussion paper is 5pm this Friday, February 12.

February 8, 2010 Read more

Nanomedicine expert discusses nanotechnology's role in the fight against cancer

A world-renowned medical researcher discusses the key role that nanotechnology has begun to play in the detection and treatment of cancer in an article that will appear in the March 2010 edition of Mechanical Engineering magazine.

February 6, 2010 Read more

Ability to manipulate a single electron marks a leap in quantum computing

A major hurdle in the ambitious quest to design and construct a radically new kind of quantum computer has been finding a way to manipulate the single electrons that very likely will constitute the new machines' processing components or qubits. Princeton University's Jason Petta has discovered how to do just that.

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Turning your T-shirt into a battery

Stanford researchers have moved from making batteries from paper to making batteries from cloth. Your-T-shirt could become a lighted, moving display.

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Physicist measure energy released from a virus during infection

For the first time, Carnegie Mellon University physicist Alex Evilevitch has directly measured the energy associated with the expulsion of viral DNA, a pivotal discovery toward fully understanding the physical mechanisms that control viral infection and designing drugs to interfere with the process.

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Near-field microscope yields high precision optical images of an organic semiconductor with 17 nm resolution

Scientists have developed a near-field microscope that can measure the optical properties of e. g. semiconductor thin films with a spatial resolution and sensitivity long thought unachievable due to fundamental physical laws.

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IBM demonstrates world's fastest graphene transistor

In a just-published paper in the magazine Science, IBM researchers demonstrated a radio-frequency graphene transistor with the highest cut-off frequency achieved so far for any graphene device - 100 billion cycles/second (100 GigaHertz).

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Graphene will make lighting cheaper and fully recyclable

With the use of the new super material graphene, Swedish and American researchers have succeeded in producing a new type of lighting component. It is inexpensive to produce and can be fully recycled.

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Cars of the future could be powered by their bodywork thanks to new battery technology

Scientists develop new composite material that could revolutionise car design and manufacturing.

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A quantum physicists' stroboscope - resonator emits brief flashes of light for entangled photons

Researchers have come up with a new method enabling the generation of ultrafast flashes of light in very high intensity in rapid succession, as they are needed for the creation of entangled photons. Aside from the quantum computer as a long-term goal, new possibilities in different areas of application are opening up, for instance optical spectroscopy.

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A simple method for high-purity separation of metallic and semiconducting carbon nanotubes

An automated, continuous and repeatable process would realize cost-efficient separation.

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Electronics for a third-generation artificial retina

Scientists and engineers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are now developing the electronics for a third-generation artificial retina as part of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) project to produce an 'epiretinal prosthesis' that could restore vision to millions of people around the world suffering from eye diseases.

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Imec and Holst Centre prominently present at International Solid State Circuit Conference

At next week's International Solid State Circuit Conference, imec and Holst Centre present their newest breakthroughs in ultra-low power design for wireless communications and wireless sensor networks, 3D design and in organic electronics with an impressive number of contributions including 10 reviewed publications and 6 contributions to tutorials and workshops.

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Precision molecular assembly

A finely tuned rare-earth metal catalyzes the exact interactions needed for site-selective molecular synthesis.

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