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SCHOTT Solar joins IMEC research program on silicon photovoltaics

SCHOTT Solar, a leading photovoltaics manufacturer, entered into a 3 year research partnership with IMEC, Europe?s leading independent nanoelectronics research center. SCHOTT Solar joins IMEC's newly launched silicon photovoltaics industrial affiliation program.

June 3, 2009 Read more

NIST hosts two international materials research meetings in June

For the materials research community, all roads will lead to the Gaithersburg, Md., headquarters of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) during the week of June 21, 2009, when the agency hosts two major international meetings.

June 2, 2009 Read more

EU ministers adopt legal framework for European research infrastructures

European research ministers have agreed on a legal framework for the establishment of European research infrastructures. The decision paves the way for the creation of world class infrastructures that should help Europe to take the lead in a wide range of research fields.

June 2, 2009 Read more

Researchers build a flexible memory component out of inexpensive materials

Electronic memory chips may soon gain the ability to bend and twist as a result of work by engineers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

June 2, 2009 Read more

Ultrasonic nanotechnology could revolutionize the diagnosis of serious disease

Revolutionary ultrasonic nanotechnology that could allow scientists to see inside a patient?s individual cells to help diagnose serious illnesses is being developed by researchers at The University of Nottingham.

June 2, 2009 Read more

Government of Canada helps new researchers gain 21st-century workforce skills

The Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State (Science and Technology), today announced projects to help science graduates expand their professional and personal skills so they can make a successful transition from the classroom to the workplace.

June 2, 2009 Read more

Ultra-fast laser makes metal that attracts, repels and guides liquids

In nature, trees pull vast amounts of water from their roots up to their leaves hundreds of feet above the ground through capillary action, but now scientists have created a simple slab of metal that lifts liquid using the same principle - but does so at a speed that would make nature envious.

June 2, 2009 Read more

New solid-state nanopore sensor beats other materials for DNA analysis

Fast and affordable genome sequencing has moved a step closer with a new solid-state nanopore sensor being developed by researchers at the University of Illinois.

June 2, 2009 Read more

IMEC names Luc Van den hove to serve as President and CEO

IMEC today announced that its board of directors has named Luc Van den hove as IMEC?s new President and Chief Executive Officer.

June 2, 2009 Read more

'Helsinki Chemicals Agenda' stresses need for global regulation

More global regulation on chemicals is required, EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas agreed at a forum last week, urging action on 'chemical cocktails', endocrine disruptors and nanotechnology.

June 2, 2009 Read more

Durchsichtige Solarzellen

Waeren Solarzellen durchsichtig, liessen sie sich auch auf Fensterscheiben und Hausfassaden anbringen. Physikalische Werkstoffmodellierung hilft dabei, passende Materialien fuer transparente Elektronik zu entwickeln und so die Basis fuer durchsichtige Solarzellen zu legen.

June 2, 2009 Read more

NanoBubbles - a new class of structure ready for exploitation?

Despite initial scepticism, acceptance of the existence and special properties of nanobubbles is now growing and their formation and characteristics are now becoming the subject of an increasing amount of study, especially in Japan.

June 2, 2009 Read more

Power to Danish-Chinese nanotechnology cooperation

The research field of molecular electronics is experiencing rapid development, and the collaboration between Danish and Chinese top researchers has exciting perspectives.

June 2, 2009 Read more

Building with pentagons - from footballs to Keplerates

Achim Mueller and co-workers from Bielefeld University and Marshall Luban with his co-workers from the Departments of Physics and Astronomy at both Francis Marion University and Iowa State University worked on synthesising a Keplerate using pentagonal tungsten-oxide based units and studied its interesting properties.

June 2, 2009 Read more

Protein gel layer for biochips now produced industrially

Biochips carrying thousands of DNA fragments are widely used for examining genetic material. Experts would also like to have biochips on which proteins are anchored. This requires a gel layer which can now be produced industrially.

June 2, 2009 Read more

Transparent solar cells

If solar cells were transparent they could be fitted to windows and building facades. Physical modeling helps in the development of suitable materials for transparent electronics and thus in creating the basis for transparent solar cells.

June 2, 2009 Read more