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U.S. government calls for nanotechnology-inspired Grand Challenges

Today, the Office of Science and Technology Policy issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking suggestions for Nanotechnology-Inspired Grand Challenges for the Next Decade. A Grand Challenge is an ambitious but achievable goal that requires advances in science and technology to achieve, and that has the potential to capture the public's imagination.

Jun 17th, 2015

Hot nanostructures cool faster when they are physically close together

A complete description of nanoscale thermal transport is a fundamental problem that has defied understanding for decades. Here, researchers uncover a new regime of thermal transport near nanoscale structures, where counterintuitively, nanoscale hot spots cool more quickly when placed close together than when they are widely separated.

Jun 17th, 2015

Inkjet inks made of silk could yield smart bandages, bacteria-sensing gloves and more

Multi-functional printable silk inks tap common print technology to address therapeutics, regenerative medicine, bio-sensing needs.

Jun 17th, 2015

Hooked on phonons: Researchers measure graphene vibrations

An international research group has developed a method for measuring crystal vibrations in graphene. Understanding these vibrations is a critical step toward controlling future technologies based on graphene.

Jun 17th, 2015

To give cancer a deadly fever, researchers explore better nanoparticle design

Heat may be the key to killing certain types of cancer, and new research has yielded unexpected results that should help optimize the design of magnetic nanoparticles that can be used to deliver heat directly to cancerous tumors.

Jun 17th, 2015

Emergence of 'Devil's staircase'

Anomalous spin ordering revealed by brilliant synchrotron soft X-rays.

Jun 17th, 2015

3D bioprinter uses carbon nanotube enhanced cellulose

Researchers have managed to print and dry three-dimensional objects made entirely by cellulose for the first time with the help of a 3D-bioprinter. They also added carbon nanotubes to create electrically conductive material.

Jun 17th, 2015

Successors to FinFET for 7nm and beyond to be presented

At this week's VLSI 2015 Symposium in Kyoto, imec reported new results on nanowire FETs and quantum-well FinFETs towards post-FinFET multi-gate device solutions.

Jun 17th, 2015

Renewable energy from evaporating water (w/video)

Scientists report the development of two novel devices that derive power directly from evaporation - a floating, piston-driven engine that generates electricity causing a light to flash, and a rotary engine that drives a miniature car.

Jun 16th, 2015

Graphene heat-transfer riddle unraveled

Researchers have solved the long-standing conundrum of how the boundary between grains of graphene affects heat conductivity in thin films of the miracle substance - bringing developers a step closer to being able to engineer films at a scale useful for cooling microelectronic devices and hundreds of other nano-tech applications.