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Combining nanotubes and antibodies for breast cancer 'search and destroy' missions

A group including researchers from NIST have demonstrated how single-walled nanotubes can be used to detect and destroy an aggressive form of breast cancer.

December 2, 2009 Read more

Fraunhofer Technologieplattform Mikroverkapselung

Im letzten Jahr haben das Fraunhofer IAO und das Fraunhofer-Institut fuer Angewandte Polymerforschung IAP, Potsdam-Golm, eine Technologieplattform fuer Mikroverkapselung ins Leben gerufen, von der Industrien unterschiedlicher Branchen, von der Papier- ueber die Chemieindustrie bis hin zur Personal Care-Industrie bereits enorm profitiert haben.

December 2, 2009 Read more

Nanotechnology research explores energy storage

In leading the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh's first technology spin-off, Charles Gibson, an inorganic chemistry professor, hopes to make a big impact on the energy storage industry with the tiniest of particles.

December 1, 2009 Read more

Researchers achieve breakthrough in quantum cascade laser output power

Northwestern University researchers have achieved a breakthrough in quantum cascade laser output power, delivering 120 watts from a single device at room temperature.

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Mexico City to build world-class hub for bio- and nanomedical research

The government of Mexico City today announced it will build a world-class center for biomedical and nanomedical research, called Campus Biometropolis.

December 1, 2009 Read more

DOE science poster competition at Oak Ridge National Laboratory boasts top student winners

Eighteen top national undergraduate science students, including one grand prize winner, have been named at the U.S. Department of Energy's second annual Science and Energy Research Challenge (SERCh,) held recently at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

December 1, 2009 Read more

Innovation puts next-generation solar cells on the horizon

Scientists at Monash University, in collaboration with colleagues from the universities of Wollongong and Ulm in Germany, have produced tandem dye-sensitised solar cells with a three-fold increase in energy conversion efficiency compared with previously reported tandem dye-sensitised solar cells.

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Shape shifters: A new breed of antennas

Research from North Carolina State University is revolutionizing the field of antenna design - creating shape-shifting antennas that open the door to a host of new uses in fields ranging from public safety to military deployment.

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Air Force Center of Excellence awarded in nanostructures and improved cognition

The Georgia Institute of Technology has been awarded a U.S. Air Force Center of Excellence to design nanostructures for energy harvesting and adaptive materials, and to develop tools to optimize critical cognitive processes of the modern warfighter.

December 1, 2009 Read more

SEMI Europe Standards Merit Award 2009

Die Richtlinie zur Standardisierung von Kommunikationsschnittstellen bei Photovoltaik-Fertigungsanlagen hat den SEMI Europe Merit Award 2009 erhalten.

December 1, 2009 Read more

New research offers clues to how shells grow in nature

Lara Estroff, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, and colleagues have taken a deep, detailed look at the way lab-created calcite crystals, similar to those found in nature, grow in tandem with proteins and other large molecules.

December 1, 2009 Read more

Similarities of pumping blood and oil examined

Scientists and engineers from two of the nation's largest industries - medicine and energy - will come together Dec. 7 with leading academicians to explore the synergies in moving oil and pumping blood.

November 30, 2009 Read more

First demonstration of high-temperature stability in metallic nanoparticles

Just as a gecko sheds its tail, metal-alloy particles endure 850 degrees Celsius by ditching weaker components.

November 30, 2009 Read more

Scientists demonstrate multibeam, multi-functional lasers

An international team of applied scientists from Harvard, Hamamatsu Photonics, and ETH Zurich have demonstrated compact, multibeam, and multi-wavelength lasers emitting in the invisible part of the light spectrum (infrared).

November 30, 2009 Read more

Non-resonant dot-cavity coupling and its potential for resonant single-quantum-dot spectroscopy

Physicists have now revealed new insight and facets of the effect of non-resonant coupling, which go beyond the conventional atomistic model.

November 30, 2009 Read more

SEMATECH researchers to unveil next-generation device and process breakthroughs at IEDM

Workshop and technical papers outline emerging solutions for logic and memory devices.

November 30, 2009 Read more