Charge order in nanostripes competes with superconductivity
Charge carriers in cuprate high-Tc superconductors form nanostripes that suppress superconductivity.
Dec 20th, 2013
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Electric fields can push droplets from nanopatterned surfaces
New method developed at MIT could lead to near-doubling of heat-transfer efficiency from power-plant condensers.
Dec 20th, 2013
Read moreResearchers grow liquid crystal 'flowers' that can be used as lenses
A team of material scientists, chemical engineers and physicists from the University of Pennsylvania has made another advance in their effort to use liquid crystals as a medium for assembling structures.
Dec 20th, 2013
Read moreExposing the secret pathways behind photosynthesis
New insights into the behavior of photosynthetic proteins from atomic simulations could hasten the development of artificial light-gathering machines.
Dec 20th, 2013
Read moreQuantum dots made to measure
A clever technique makes it possible to measure the intrinsic properties of quantum dot transistors.
Dec 20th, 2013
Read morePowerful microscale torsional muscle/motor made from vanadium dioxide (w/video)
Researchers have demonstrated a micro-sized robotic torsional muscle/motor made from vanadium dioxide that for its size is a thousand times more powerful than a human muscle, able to catapult objects 50 times heavier than itself over a distance five times its length within 60 milliseconds - faster than the blink of an eye.
Dec 19th, 2013
Read moreNanomedicine: DNA clamp to grab cancer before it develops
Researchers have developed a DNA clamp that can detect mutations at the DNA level with greater efficiency than methods currently in use. Their work could facilitate rapid screening of those diseases that have a genetic basis, such as cancer, and provide new tools for more advanced nanotechnology.
Dec 19th, 2013
Read moreControlling exposures to workers who make or use nanomaterials
NIOSH has released a document titled, Current Strategies for Engineering Controls in Nanomaterial Production and Downstream Handling Processes, which provides information on how to control exposures for many of the most common processes seen in facilities that use or produce nanomaterials or nano-enabled products.
Dec 19th, 2013
Read moreA frequency conversion interface to the telecommunications band using nanophotonics
Using nanofabricated waveguides in a silicon-based platform, researchers have developed a frequency conversion interface between the optical transition wavelengths in quantum dots and in naturally occurring atoms and the telecommunications wavelength band.
Dec 19th, 2013
Read moreResearchers develop chalcopyrite solar cells without cadmium-based buffer layer
A single layer takes on the job of what used to be two layers, doing away with the wet chemical process. Despite a much simplified production method, efficiencies of greater than 18 percent are well within reach.
Dec 19th, 2013
Read moreNetworking of SMEs in the nano-biomedical sector
The concept of a 'Translation Hub' shall provide advice and follow-up at all stages of the research and development and provide examples of best practice to European R+D teams in nano-bio-medicine.
Dec 19th, 2013
Read moreSurvey reveals regulatory agencies viewed as unprepared for nanotechnology
In a survey of nano-scientists and engineers, nano-environmental health and safety scientists, and regulators, researchers at the UCSB Center for Nanotechnology in Society and at the University of British Columbia found that those who perceive the risks posed by nanotechnology as 'novel' are more likely to believe that regulators are unprepared.
Dec 19th, 2013
Read moreNew magnetic behaviour in nanoparticles could lead to even smaller digital memories
Researchers have achieved to create a new behaviour in magnetic core/shell nanoparticles. It could lead to the creation of even smaller and higher capacity digital memories.
Dec 19th, 2013
Read moreNanotechnology, robotics, other new technologies and the law of armed conflict
The introduction of new technologies such as information technology, space technologies, nanotechnology and robotic technologies into our civil life, and into warfare, is expected to influence the application and interpretation of the existing rules of the law of armed conflict.
Dec 19th, 2013
Read moreNanotechnology in drug delivery: Strategies, technologies and applications
The aim of this new book is to provide both a rigorous view and a more practical, understandable view of nanosystems for graduate students and scientists in related fields.
Dec 19th, 2013
Read moreGraphen schlägt Wellen
Wissenschaftler der FAU-Nürnberg zeigen, wie zweilagiges Graphen effektiv 'Stress abbaut'.
Dec 19th, 2013
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