University of New South Wales' (UNSW) ARC Photovoltaic Centre of Excellence has again asserted its leadership in solar cell technology by reporting the first silicon solar cell to achieve the milestone of 25 per cent effiency.
Oct 23rd, 2008
Read more
With a $1.6M grant from the U.S. Office of Naval Research, UC San Diego NanoEngineering professor Joseph Wang will lead a project to create a 'field hospital on a chip' that soldiers can wear on the battlefield.
Oct 23rd, 2008
Read more
A new proteomics project promises to revolutionize routine blood tests, vaccine development, cancer diagnostics, and many other important biomedical challenges.
Oct 23rd, 2008
Read morePenn State will receive $5 million over four years from the National Science Foundation to establish a National Center for Nanotechnology Applications and Career Knowledge (NACK).
Oct 23rd, 2008
Read moreEight Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) nanomanufacturing technologies have won $8.4 million in funding from the Department of Energy's Industrial Technologies Program.
Oct 23rd, 2008
Read more
A zinc oxide nanorod field-effect transistor (FET), the first of its kind as a nano device in China, was successfully fabricated by scientists with the Institute of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Oct 23rd, 2008
Read moreThe Bio Meets Nano and IT conference in Oulu, Finland from December 9-11, 2008, brings together companies, organisations and research groups with the purpose of enhancing international and interdisciplinary business collaboration in the fields of life sciences, micro- and nanotechnology and information technology.
Oct 22nd, 2008
Read moreVladimir Torchilin, Ph.D., professor and chair of the department of pharmaceutical sciences at Northeastern University?s Bouve College of Health Sciences, was recently awarded a 5-year, $1.54 million grant from the National Institutes of Health?s (NIH) National Cancer Institute to investigate ways to increase the efficacy of nanocarrier-based pharmaceuticals for drug and gene therapy.
Oct 22nd, 2008
Read moreEuropean researchers have developed highly sensitive ultrasound equipment that can detect tiny quantities of reflective microbubbles engineered to stick to specific tumour cells.
Oct 22nd, 2008
Read moreAn international team of scientists has performed the ultimate miniaturisation of computer memory: storing information inside the nucleus of an atom.
Oct 22nd, 2008
Read moreCharles Rosenblatt, professor of physics and macromolecular science at Case Western Reserve University, and his research group have developed a method of 3D optical imaging of anisotropic fluids such as liquid crystals, with volumetric resolution one thousand times smaller than existing techniques.
Oct 22nd, 2008
Read more
Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, are reporting a new way of creating computer chips that could revitalize optical lithography, a patterning technique that dominates modern integrated circuits manufacturing.
Oct 22nd, 2008
Read more
Scientists are reporting development of a device that could serve as the electronic reader for a coming generation of 'wellness cards', specimen holders used to diagnose disease from a drop of a patient's saliva or blood.
Oct 22nd, 2008
Read morePioneering research begins to develop electronics that simulate the cognitive capabilities and efficiencies of the biological brain as part of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency?s (DARPA) SyNAPSE, or Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics, program.
Oct 22nd, 2008
Read moreResearchers from all over the world will gather at Florida State University for a major international conference that focuses on predicting the properties of materials and finding new ways to improve these properties.
Oct 22nd, 2008
Read moreEnvironmental gains derived from the use of nanomaterials may be offset in part by the process used to manufacture them, according to research published in a special issue of the Journal of Industrial Ecology.
Oct 22nd, 2008
Read more
Subscribe to our Nanotechnology News feed