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The greening of propane

The process to turn propane into industrially necessary propylene has been expensive and environmentally unfriendly. That was until scientists at U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory devised a greener way to take this important step in chemical catalysis.

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Ion beam experiments for materials

Three new experimental units for conducting materials research are being inaugurated today at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt.

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Lessons from a frustrated magnet

Scientists in Japan and Korea have developed a quantum theory that explains how temperature and quantum fluctuations - a direct consequence of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle - affect the properties of materials called multiferroics.

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'Self-correcting' gates advance quantum computing

Two Dartmouth researchers have found a way to develop more robust 'quantum gates', which are the elementary building blocks of quantum circuits.

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Theory makes predictions about latest high-temp superconductor

An international team of physicists from the United States and China this week offered a new theory to both explain and predict the complex quantum behavior of a new class of high-temperature superconductors.

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First high-resolution images of earliest stages of bone, tooth and shell formation

Researchers used the world's most advanced electron microscope to make three-dimensional images of the nano-particles that are at the heart of the process.

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Semiconductor industry recognizes Professor Anantha Chandrakasan and Professor Kang Wang

The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today announced the recipients of its 2009 University Researcher Awards, Dr. Anantha Chandrakasan of MIT and Dr. Kang Wang of UCLA. The awards were presented at the annual SIA Washington conference on March 12.

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Startschuss fuer Anwendungscluster Nanotechnologie

Um den Transfer der wissenschaftlichen Nanotechnologieforschung in die industrielle Anwendung zu erleichtern, haben die IHKs der Metropolregion Stuttgart gemeinsam mit dem Fraunhofer IAO das Anwendungscluster Nanotechnologie initiiert.

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Revealing new applications for carbon nanomaterials in hydrogen storage

An international research team, involving Professor Rajeev Ahuja at Uppsala University and researchers in the USA, set out to understand the mechanism behind the catalytic effects of carbon nanomaterials.

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Size matters: Facing the ethical challenges of nanotechnology

From June 17-18, 2009 in Saarbruecken, Germany, prominent experts will be discussing ethical nanotechnology issues at the SIZE MATTERS 2009 conference from the perspective of the natural sciences, medicine, philosophy, theology and law.

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Physicist develops 'spin battery' using new source of energy

Researchers at the University of Miami and at the Universities of Tokyo and Tohoku, Japan, have been able to prove the existence of a 'spin battery', a battery that is 'charged' by applying a large magnetic field to nano-magnets in a device called a magnetic tunnel junction.

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April workshop takes aim at obstacles to nanotechnology energy technologies

Exploring the new measurement and materials' characterization techniques needed to apply nanotechnology effectively to global energy challenges is the aim of an international workshop on April 26-28, 2009, at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering at the University of Albany in New York.

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Smart heating and cooling with nanofluids

Department of Physics of the University of Milan shows that nanofluids can act as smart materials that can be switched on and off to dissipate heat efficiently or poorly.

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Re-engineered battery material could lead to rapid recharging of many devices

MIT engineers have created a kind of beltway that allows for the rapid transit of electrical energy through a well-known battery material, an advance that could usher in smaller, lighter batteries - for cell phones and other devices - that could recharge in seconds rather than hours.

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Nanotechnology treatment transports anti-cancer genes selectively into cancer cells

British scientists said on Tuesday they had developed a treatment that transports anti-cancer genes selectively into cancer cells using nanotechnology.

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Quantum dots could boost solar cell efficiency

Working with researchers at PULSE, Stanford University and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, scientists confirm that a single photon can indeed excite more than one electron in a quantum dot.

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