By developing a new antireflective coating that boosts the amount of sunlight captured by solar panels and allows those panels to absorb the entire solar spectrum from nearly any angle, a research team has moved academia and industry closer to realizing high-efficiency, cost-effective solar power.
Nov 3rd, 2008
Read moreA crowd consisting of hundreds of children, adults and families participated in Community Day today at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering of the University at Albany, the first in a series of events that are part of CNSE's unprecedented community and educational outreach initiative known as NANOvember.
Nov 3rd, 2008
Read moreThomas R. Baruch, a member of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Board of Trustees and alumnus of the Class of 1960, has donated a gift that will help to establish a new center at the Institute devoted to bio-energy research.
Nov 3rd, 2008
Read moreWhile the friction hardly changes when using conventional oil, it drops to almost zero after a while when liquid crystals are used.
Nov 3rd, 2008
Read moreThe notice reminds manufacturers and importers that they must notify EPA 90 days prior to the manufacture or import of new chemical CNTs for commercial purposes, in accordance with TSCA Section 5 regulations for new chemicals at 40 C.F.R. 720.22.
Nov 3rd, 2008
Read moreBy adapting techniques mastered in the test tube and combining them with high throughput technology, scientists haves developed a genome-wide platform to study how specialized proteins regulate RNA in living, intact cells.
Nov 3rd, 2008
Read moreBy playing it safe and using a two-pronged attack, a novel designer molecule fights malignant melanoma.
Nov 2nd, 2008
Read moreResearchers at Boston University working with collaborators in Germany, France and Korea have developed a nanoscale torsion resonator that measures miniscule amounts of twisting or torque in a metallic nanowire
Nov 2nd, 2008
Read moreSix undergraduate students from colleges and universities in New York State have been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) from Brookhaven National Laboratory to compete in the first annual Science and Energy Research Challenge (SERCh).
Nov 1st, 2008
Read moreA new study published in the September/October issue of the journal Marketing Science reveals the world's most innovative countries, with Japan and the Nordic countries earning top spots and the United States finishing in sixth.
Nov 1st, 2008
Read moreTo make Indian industry a part of the nanotechnology revolution, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has decided to tie up with educational and research institutes in the country under its 10-point action plan.
Nov 1st, 2008
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A research team led by Iver Anderson is developing a cheaper and better way to make a titanium alloy powder that can be used to manufacture artificial joints.
Nov 1st, 2008
Read moreThanks to companies, universities, and inventors designing and manufacturing biomedical sensors, healthcare and its related economy will radically change over the next decade.
Oct 31st, 2008
Read moreOregon researchers have synthesized an elusive metal-hydroxide compound in sufficient and rapidly produced yields, potentially paving the way for improved precursor inks that could boost semiconductor capabilities for large-area applications.
Oct 31st, 2008
Read moreDie Bremer Produktionstechniker um Professor Lutz Maedler sind Partner einer internationalen Forschungsinitiative zur Etablierung der wissenschaftlichen Grundlagen fuer Nano-Bio-Wechselwirkungen innerhalb des Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology (CEIN)
Oct 31st, 2008
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Scientists in Canada have recreated a famous painting on the microscale using a new protein patterning technique. The technique can also be used to mimic patterns of proteins found in cells and could lead to advances in neuroscience.
Oct 31st, 2008
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