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New storage material improves energy density of lithium-ion battery

High-performance energy storage technologies for the automotive industry or mobile phone batteries and notebooks providing long battery times - these visions of the future are being brought one step nearer to the present by scientists from Graz University of Technology.

October 28, 2009 Read more

UCF secures $7.5 million research grant to improve hybrid photovoltaic solar cells

The 5-year grant will fund research which could lead to ways to produce highly flexible solar panels.

October 27, 2009 Read more

Controlling an electron's spin orientation using purely electrical means

A multidisciplinary team of researchers is the first to find an innovative and novel way to control an electron's spin orientation using purely electrical means.

October 27, 2009 Read more

Research continues on secure, mobile, quantum communications

Researcher Dr. David H. Hughes of the Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, N.Y. is leading a team investigating long-distance, mobile optical links imperative for secure quantum communications capabilities in theater.

October 27, 2009 Read more

University of Texas leads collaborative initiative for innovative cancer research

A consortium led by The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston has been awarded a major grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to establish a center to conduct innovative cancer research.

October 27, 2009 Read more

New process solves problem of mixing liquids in tiny volumes

Sandia researchers have developed a process that can mix tiny volumes of liquid, even in complicated spaces.

October 27, 2009 Read more

Stimulus funds to pay for equipment at nanotechnology facility at Cornell

The Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility (CNF) has received $1.38 million in federal stimulus funds to help with equipment upgrades.

October 27, 2009 Read more

Gateway University Research Park hosts groundbreaking for Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering

Unveiling plans for a 100,000(+)-square-foot research facility located at the South Campus of Gateway University Research Park in Greensboro, N.C., North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and The University of North Carolina at Greensboro will host the official groundbreaking of the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering (JSNN) on Monday, Nov. 9.

October 27, 2009 Read more

The world's fastest super-resolution light microscope wins innovation award

The assessment panel awarded the prize to Prof. Christoph Cremer for his revolutionary light microscopy technology Vertico SMI. The patented process developed by this researcher from the University of Heidelberg makes it possible to image and analyze cells in two dimensional resolution as low as of 10 nanometers and with a resolution in the third dimension of 40 nanometers.

October 27, 2009 Read more

Germany continues to be a magnet for international photovoltaic companies

Germany's newly formed government will continue to provide broad support for renewable energy sources, according to the coalition agreement.

October 27, 2009 Read more

New transistor noise model improves prediction accuracy, supports continued device scaling

Researchers from SEMATECH's Front End Processes program have developed a comprehensive transistor noise model capable of extracting defect characteristics from low frequency noise data in advanced gate stack transistors using both conventional and novel dielectrics.

October 27, 2009 Read more

Graphene in drilling fluids could improve productivity of oil wells

A wall of graphene a single nanometer wide could be the difference between an oil well that merely pays for itself and one that returns great profit.

October 27, 2009 Read more

Plasma as a nanoparticle factory

INL scientist Peter Kong is putting plasma to work, using it to produce nanoparticles, synthesize materials to store hydrogen and convert heavy hydrocarbons to transportation fuels.

October 27, 2009 Read more

New technique for 'seeing' how proteins interact is a potential game changer

An interdisciplinary team of researchers has created a new, ultra-sensitive technique to analyze life-sustaining protein molecules. The technique may profoundly change the methodology of biomolecular studies and chart a new path to effective diagnostics and early treatment of complex diseases.

October 26, 2009 Read more

Science at the petascale: Simulations of the biggest of the big and smallest of the small

The world's fastest supercomputer, Roadrunner, at Los Alamos National Laboratory has completed its initial 'shakedown' phase doing accelerated petascale computer modeling and simulations of a variety of unclassified, fundamental science projects.

October 26, 2009 Read more

Battling cancer with engineering: NCI funds new $13 million cancer research center led by Cornell

Adding potent research firepower and fresh physical perspectives to combat cancer, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) has funded the new Center on the Microenvironment and Metastasis, which will be headquartered at Cornell University.

October 26, 2009 Read more