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Breakthrough in power-efficient driving of OLED-displays

Compared to the present standard, with the new system more than the half of the energy can be saved for the OLED-display-operation.

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Bug barcode readers hold out promise of universal vaccines

Veterinary scientists propose that by harnessing the system that reads the biological 'barcodes' of infectious microbes such as food poisoning bacteria, flu viruses and protozoa that cause malaria, one vaccine could be made to prevent a particular disease in all mammals.

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Graphene pioneer Geim awarded Royal Society Anniversary Professorship

A leading physicist from The University of Manchster has been awarded a Royal Society 2010 Anniversary Research Professorship in celebration of the Society's 350th anniversary.

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NHGRI grant for nanopore technology to analyze DNA

The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) has awarded a $1.1 million grant to researchers in the Jack Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz to support their work on nanopore technology for analyzing DNA.

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Team seeks to use artificial photosynthesis and nanotubes to generate hydrogen fuel with sunlight

A team of four chemists at the University of Rochester have begun work on a new kind of system to derive usable hydrogen fuel from water using only sunlight.

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Novel electronic properties in graphene may lead to speedy, powerful electronic devices

The new findings, previously considered possible by physicists but only now being seen in the laboratory, show that electrons in graphene can interact strongly with each other.

October 14, 2009 Read more

Bioengineering of nerve-muscle connection shows potential to restore sense of touch

Modern tissue engineering developed at the University of Michigan could improve the function of prosthetic hands and possibly restore the sense of touch for injured patients.

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The future of electricity may be found in environmentally-friendly, thermoelectric cells

The Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the National Science Foundation are funding research that may result in a military turbine aircraft that for the first time ever will produce its own electricity from exhaust heat generated from thermo electricity.

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DOE to explore scientific cloud computing at Argonne, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories

A new program funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will examine cloud computing as a cost-effective and energy-efficient computing paradigm for scientists to accelerate discoveries in a variety of disciplines, including analysis of scientific data sets in biology, climate change and physics.

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Novel optical method applied to nano-mechanical oscillators

A team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and the Ludwig Maximilians University have succeeded in applying a novel optical method to nano-mechanical oscillators.

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American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists offers nanotechnology webinar

Learning opportunity gives overview of nanoscale systems, covers analytical issues.

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'Magnetricity' observed and measured for the first time

A magnetic charge can behave and interact just like an electric charge in some materials, according to new research led by the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) which could lead to a reassessment of current magnetism theories, as well as significant technological advances.

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Call for papers: International Conference on Composites or Nanoengineering

This is a call for two-page short papers for the The Eighteenth Annual International Conference on Composites/Nanoengineering (ICCE - 18) in Anchorage, Alaska,USA, on July 4-10, 2010.

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Rensselaer professor Robert Hull elected fellow of Materials Research Society

Renowned materials scientist Robert Hull, the Henry Burlage Jr. Professor of Engineering and head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, was recently named a fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS).

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3D CMOS camera for your cell phone?

European researchers have created a world-leading camera in CMOS that can record photons at a million times a second. Best of all, it will be really cheap to manufacture, offering applications in consumer products, entertainment and in-car safety systems.

October 13, 2009 Read more

UTEP Department of Chemistry Chair honored with Distinguished Scientist Award

The University of Texas at El Paso is pleased to announce that Jorge Gardea-Torresdey, Ph. D, chair for the Department of Chemistry, has been honored with the 2009 Distinguished Scientist Award by SACNAS, the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.

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