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Researchers pin down quantum particles

Researchers at the Kavli Institute for Nanosciences at Delft University of Technology, have succeeded in getting hold of the environment of a quantum particle.

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Smallest nanoantennas for high-speed data networks

Scientists have now succeeded for the first time in specifically and reproducibly manufacturing smallest optical nanoantennas from gold.

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New material could boost data storage, save energy

North Carolina State University engineers have created a new material that would allow a fingernail-size computer chip to store the equivalent of 20 high-definition DVDs or 250 million pages of text, far exceeding the storage capacities of today's computer memory systems.

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0.2 second test for explosive liquids

New research explains how a new form of spectroscopy, a scientific method that uses electromagnetic radiation to identify materials, and a novel nanoelectronic device to detect signals, can identify explosive liquids, or liquid components for the fabrication of explosives, in usual plastic bottles almost instantly.

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Terepac and IMEC join forces in low-cost flexible electronics packaging

Terepac Corporation, an emerging leader in electronics miniaturization, packaging and assembly, and IMEC, a leading European research center in nanotechnology, announce their collaboration on novel packaging technologies for flexible electronics.

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Die meisten Deutschen haben keine Vorstellung von Nanotechnologie

Die Nanotechnologie weckt diffuse Hoffnungen. Ihr Nutzen wird vom ueberwiegenden Teil der Deutschen hoeher eingeschaetzt als die moeglichen Risiken. Gleichzeitig hat nur ein geringer Teil der Bevoelkerung eine klare Vorstellung davon, was unter dem Begriff ueberhaupt zu verstehen ist.

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New material provides a key to explaining superconductivity

Nobody knows exactly why some materials suddenly become superconductors below a certain temperature. Researchers at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin fuer Materialien und Energie (HZB) present new findings that could finally resolve a long-standing dispute as to which theory is correct.

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New technology allows to manufacture highly precise, uniform nanoparticles to order

Chemists at Idaho National Laboratory and Idaho State University have invented a way to manufacture highly precise, uniform nanoparticles to order. The technology, Precision Nanoparticles, has the potential to vastly improve the solar cell and further spur the growing nanotech revolution.

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New nanotechnology test tool offers 300 times more sensitive prostate cancer screening

A team of Northwestern University researchers, using an extremely sensitive tool based on nanotechnology, has detected previously undetectable levels of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) in patients who have undergone radical prostatectomy.

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Nanosystems institute at UCLA, Photron to collaborate on specialized instrumentation

The California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA has announced a collaboration with Photron USA Inc., a manufacturer of high-speed imaging systems and image analysis software, to develop specialized instrumentation for the CNSI's core laboratory facilities.

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Argonne scientists find new set of multiferroic materials

The trail to a new multiferroic started with the theories of a U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory scientist and ended with a multidisciplinary collaboration that created a material with potential impact on next generation electronics.

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Bio-scaffold may help humans replace lost or missing bone

Mother Nature has provided the lizard with a unique ability to regrow body tissue that is damaged or torn - if its tail is pulled off, it grows right back. She has not been quite so generous with human beings. But we might be able to come close, thanks to new research from Tel Aviv University.

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Catalyzing tech transfer and start-up financing for new technologies program on October 29 in Chicago

The Midwest Research University Network (MRUN), Illinois Business and Investors Forum (ILBIF), Midwest Co-Investment Network and the Illinois Technology Association (ITA) are joining forces to host a program designed to stimulate investment in technology companies.

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New technique paves way for medical discoveries

Researchers have previously been able to analyse which sugar structures are to be found on certain proteins, but not exactly where on the protein they are positioned. This is now possible thanks to a new technique developed at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

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Nanotechnology propulsion system could have dramatic impact on speed of spacecraft

A University of Michigan professor is developing an electric rocket thruster, NanoFET, that uses nanoparticle electric propulsion and enables spacecraft to travel faster and with less propellant than previous technology allowed.

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Novel semiconductor nanostructure design revolutionizes T-ray lasers

Using nanostructures which are based on semiconductors with special properties, the novel device will have 400 times higher gain than THz quantum cascade lasers, the only coherent T-ray sources existing today.

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