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First silicon solar cell achieves the milestone of 25 per cent effiency

University of New South Wales' (UNSW) ARC Photovoltaic Centre of Excellence has again asserted its leadership in solar cell technology by reporting the first silicon solar cell to achieve the milestone of 25 per cent effiency.

October 23, 2008 Read more

Nanoengineer starts field-hospital-on-a-chip project

With a $1.6M grant from the U.S. Office of Naval Research, UC San Diego NanoEngineering professor Joseph Wang will lead a project to create a 'field hospital on a chip' that soldiers can wear on the battlefield.

October 23, 2008 Read more

Putting protein pieces together with algorithms: Solving the 'mass spec data mess'

A new proteomics project promises to revolutionize routine blood tests, vaccine development, cancer diagnostics, and many other important biomedical challenges.

October 23, 2008 Read more

Penn State to establish a National Center for Nanotechnology Applications and Career Knowledge

Penn State will receive $5 million over four years from the National Science Foundation to establish a National Center for Nanotechnology Applications and Career Knowledge (NACK).

October 23, 2008 Read more

ORNL nanomanufacturing technologies win $8.4 million DOE funding

Eight Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) nanomanufacturing technologies have won $8.4 million in funding from the Department of Energy's Industrial Technologies Program.

October 23, 2008 Read more

Chinese nanotechnology researchers fabricates the country's first nanorod field-effect transistor

A zinc oxide nanorod field-effect transistor (FET), the first of its kind as a nano device in China, was successfully fabricated by scientists with the Institute of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

October 23, 2008 Read more

Bio meets nano and IT

The Bio Meets Nano and IT conference in Oulu, Finland from December 9-11, 2008, brings together companies, organisations and research groups with the purpose of enhancing international and interdisciplinary business collaboration in the fields of life sciences, micro- and nanotechnology and information technology.

October 22, 2008 Read more

NIH grant of $1.5m for nanocarrier-based pharmaceuticals for drug and gene therapy

Vladimir Torchilin, Ph.D., professor and chair of the department of pharmaceutical sciences at Northeastern University?s Bouve College of Health Sciences, was recently awarded a 5-year, $1.54 million grant from the National Institutes of Health?s (NIH) National Cancer Institute to investigate ways to increase the efficacy of nanocarrier-based pharmaceuticals for drug and gene therapy.

October 22, 2008 Read more

Sensitive ultrasound equipment can spot early-stage cancer cells

European researchers have developed highly sensitive ultrasound equipment that can detect tiny quantities of reflective microbubbles engineered to stick to specific tumour cells.

October 22, 2008 Read more

Memoirs of a qubit: Hybrid memory solves key problem for quantum computing

An international team of scientists has performed the ultimate miniaturisation of computer memory: storing information inside the nucleus of an atom.

October 22, 2008 Read more

3-D nanoimaging process improves LCDs

Charles Rosenblatt, professor of physics and macromolecular science at Case Western Reserve University, and his research group have developed a method of 3D optical imaging of anisotropic fluids such as liquid crystals, with volumetric resolution one thousand times smaller than existing techniques.

October 22, 2008 Read more

Plasmonic lithography could lead to denser, more powerful computer chips

Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, are reporting a new way of creating computer chips that could revitalize optical lithography, a patterning technique that dominates modern integrated circuits manufacturing.

October 22, 2008 Read more

Toward non-invasive disease diagnosis with 'wellness cards'

Scientists are reporting development of a device that could serve as the electronic reader for a coming generation of 'wellness cards', specimen holders used to diagnose disease from a drop of a patient's saliva or blood.

October 22, 2008 Read more

Pioneering research to develop electronics that function like biological brains

Pioneering research begins to develop electronics that simulate the cognitive capabilities and efficiencies of the biological brain as part of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency?s (DARPA) SyNAPSE, or Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics, program.

October 22, 2008 Read more

Conference focuses on predicting the properties of materials

Researchers from all over the world will gather at Florida State University for a major international conference that focuses on predicting the properties of materials and finding new ways to improve these properties.

October 22, 2008 Read more

Nanomaterials may have large environmental footprint

Environmental gains derived from the use of nanomaterials may be offset in part by the process used to manufacture them, according to research published in a special issue of the Journal of Industrial Ecology.

October 22, 2008 Read more