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New formula helps increase the efficiency and decrease the cost of PEM fuel cells

Researchers have discovered a new material that allows a PEM fuel cell, known as a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell, to work at a higher temperature.

October 17, 2009 Read more

UC San Francisco grants marketing rights for superresolution microscopy techniques to Carl Zeiss

Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH has received a license from the University of California for the commercialization of 'superresolution', a microscopy technique offering extraordinarily high resolution.

October 17, 2009 Read more

Brighten up - it's a new plastic optical fibre technology

It may look like little more than fishing line, but thin, tough and flexible plastic optical fibre promises to revolutionise high-speed, last-mile communications networks, enable new sensing devices and even add sparkle to clothing. Its evolution is being aided by groundbreaking research in Europe.

October 16, 2009 Read more

Leti's planar-SOI technology meets low-power, 22nm node requirements

Leti, a leading global research center committed to creating and commercializing innovation in micro- and nanotechnologies, today presented results at the SOI Industry Consortium workshop in Leuven, Belgium, that prove SOI-based planar CMOS meets requirements for low-power, 22nm node devices, offering a practical route to further feature shrink and enabling a significant jump for 'green' products.

October 16, 2009 Read more

EU plans to review its policies on nanomaterials

The EU executive plans to respond positively to the European Parliament's call for a number of EU policies and regulations covering health and environmental safety issues related to nanomaterials to be reviewed.

October 16, 2009 Read more

Space observatory's detector technology goes into single-molecule imaging

Astrophysicists at RIKEN lend their expertise to biologists to develop one of the world's fastest and most sensitive cameras to observe cell behavior at the nanometer scale.

October 16, 2009 Read more

A novel spectroscopic technique reveals a new fundamental property of air/water interfaces

Contrary to expectations, structurally different molecules can display different solvent properties at an interface between air and water, researchers in Japan have discovered.

October 16, 2009 Read more

Field experiment on a robust hierarchical metropolitan quantum cryptography network

Key Laboratory of Quantum Information (CAS), University of Science and Technology of China has recently demonstrated a metropolitan Quantum Cryptography Network (QCN) for Government Administration in Wuhu, China.

October 16, 2009 Read more

Packard Fellowship allows MIT physicist to explore unique features of graphene

MIT physicist Pablo Jarillo-Herrero has won a 2009 David and Lucile Packard Fellowship, an award he will use to study a new class of materials that could have applications in the semiconductor industry and quantum computing.

October 16, 2009 Read more

Unravelling the secrets of a magic material

UCL researchers are helping to unlock the secrets of a material that could ultimately be used in a new generation of electronic devices.

October 16, 2009 Read more

Physicists measure elusive 'persistent current' that flows forever

Physicists at Yale University have made the first definitive measurements of 'persistent current', a small but perpetual electric current that flows naturally through tiny rings of metal wire even without an external power source.

October 16, 2009 Read more

Going plasmonic in search of faster computing, communications

A team of European researchers has demonstrated some of the first commercially viable plasmonic devices, paving the way for a new era of high-speed communications and computing in which electronic and optical signals can be handled simultaneously.

October 16, 2009 Read more

Quantum-limited measurement method for nanosensors

A group of scientists could show that the optical near-field can be used as actuator and sensitive probe for nanomechanical oscillators.

October 16, 2009 Read more

Nanotube experiment shows reaction of melting materials at the nanoscale

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have conducted a basic chemistry experiment in what is perhaps the world's smallest test tube.

October 15, 2009 Read more

Quantum computer chips one step closer to reality

Researchers at Ohio State University have discovered a way to make quantum devices using technology common to the chip-making industry today.

October 15, 2009 Read more

Nanobeschichtung macht Fingerabdruck unsichtbar

Auf der Messe Parts2Clean in Stuttgart zeigen Fraunhofer-Wissenschaftler vom 20. bis 22. Oktober 2009 (Halle 1/Stand F 610/G 709), wie mithilfe einer unsichtbaren Nanoschicht Fingerabdruecke auf Metall- oder Kunststoffoberflaechen unsichtbar werden.

October 15, 2009 Read more