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Engineers are developing an optical 'nanocavity' to boost light absorption in semiconductors; it could improve solar cells, cameras and more.
Posted: Feb 25th, 2014
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Nanoparticles and magnetic fields train immune cells to fight skin cancer in mice
Using tiny particles designed to target cancer-fighting immune cells, Johns Hopkins researchers have trained the immune systems of mice to fight melanoma, a deadly skin cancer.
Posted: Feb 25th, 2014
Read moreNanowires on silicon get three times faster
The integration of semiconductor nanowires with conventional silicon electronics has overcome a major hurdle thanks to researchers at the London Centre for Nanotechnology.
Posted: Feb 25th, 2014
Read moreHow to use light to manipulate the spin in topological insulators
Researchers investigated the topological insulator bismuth selenide by spin-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy. They found an astonishing difference depending on whether it is illuminated by circularly polarized light in the vacuum ultraviolet and in the ultraviolet spectral range. This result could help explaining how spin currents can be generated in topological insulators.
Posted: Feb 25th, 2014
Read moreFirst NANoREG newsletter available as free download
NANoREG is the first FP7 project to deliver the answers needed by regulators and legislators on EHS by linking them to a scientific evaluation of data and test methods.
Posted: Feb 25th, 2014
Read moreCarbon nanotubes improve polymers for aviation
New research aimed to improve the mechanical properties of poly(ether imide). Poly(ether imide) is a polymer that has very good mechanical and thermal properties and is used, among other things, to produce the internal parts of aircraft.
Posted: Feb 25th, 2014
Read moreIron oxide as an ultralightweight
Iron oxide frameworks with hierarchical pore structure from pyrolysis of Prussian blue nanocrystals.
Posted: Feb 25th, 2014
Read moreNanotechnology may be key to solar energy and energy storage
New IEC and Fraunhofer ISI study finds that nanotechnology will bring significant benefits to energy sector.
Posted: Feb 25th, 2014
Read moreBuilding artificial cells will be a noisy business (w/video)
In vitro compartmentalization of biochemical reaction networks is a crucial step towards engineering artificial cell-scale devices and systems. At this scale the dynamics of molecular systems becomes stochastic, which introduces several engineering challenges and opportunities. In new work, researchers studied a programmable transcriptional oscillator system that is compartmentalized into microemulsion droplets with volumes between 33 fl and 16 pl.
Posted: Feb 25th, 2014
Read moreSpinning nanoparticles coaxed into 'living' crystals
Simply making nanoparticles spin coaxes them to arrange themselves into what University of Michigan researchers call 'living rotating crystals' that could serve as a nanopump. They may also, incidentally, shed light on the origin of life itself.
Posted: Feb 25th, 2014
Read moreNow in 3-D: Video of virus-sized particle trying to enter cell (w/video)
Tiny and swift, viruses are hard to capture on video. Now researchers at Princeton University have achieved an unprecedented look at a virus-like particle as it tries to break into and infect a cell.
Posted: Feb 25th, 2014
Read moreSilver gone astray - nanoparticles in environment
A recent study conducted by the Swiss National Science Foundation revealed that the bulk of silver nanoparticles is retained in wastewater treatment plants, only little is known about the persistence and the impact of the residual nano-silver in the environment.
Posted: Feb 25th, 2014
Read moreHow to create selective holes in graphene
New technique developed at MIT produces highly selective filter materials, could lead to more efficient desalination.
Posted: Feb 25th, 2014
Read moreSUNY NanoCollege expands photoresist research with new partnership
Kumho scientists to leverage CNSE's state-of-the-art facilities for advanced photoresist R+D to enable next-generation computer chips.
Posted: Feb 24th, 2014
Read moreOn the road to Mottronics
'Mottronics' is a term seemingly destined to become familiar to aficionados of electronic gadgets. Named for the Nobel laureate Nevill Francis Mott, Mottronics involve materials - mostly metal oxides - that can be induced to transition between electrically conductive and insulating phases.
Posted: Feb 24th, 2014
Read moreRevealing secrets of exploding clusters
The investigation of cluster explosion dynamics under intense extreme-ultraviolet (XUV) pulses has so far been limited to large scale facilities like free-electron lasers. In a recent publication it was shown that the research on clusters is now also possible with intense XUV pulses obtained in a laboratory-scale environment with a newly developed light source that makes use of the high-order harmonic generation process.
Posted: Feb 24th, 2014
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