Scientists from Berlin and Heidelberg use artifical nerve cells to classify different types of data. Thus, they may recognize handwritten numbers, or distinguish plant species based on their flowers.
Jan 27th, 2014
Read moreA team of researchers at the University of Toronto has discovered a method of assembling "building blocks" of gold nanoparticles as the vehicle to deliver cancer medications or cancer-identifying markers directly into cancerous tumors.
Jan 27th, 2014
Read moreAn interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers from The MITRE Corporation and Harvard University have taken key steps toward ultra-small electronic computer systems that push beyond the imminent end of Moore's Law, which states that the device density and overall processing power for computers will double every two to three years.
Jan 27th, 2014
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Silk and diamonds aren't just for ties and jewelry anymore. They're ingredients for a new kind of tiny glowing particle that could provide doctors and researchers with a novel technique for biological imaging and drug delivery.
Jan 27th, 2014
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The sponges of the future will do more than clean house. Delivering drugs and trapping gases are all potential applications. That's what chemist Jason Benedict had in mind when he led the design of a new, porous material whose pores change shape in response to ultraviolet light.
Jan 27th, 2014
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Researchers from Brown University have shown experimentally that a boron-based competitor to graphene is a very real possibility.
Jan 27th, 2014
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A new type of electrical generator uses bacterial spores to harness the untapped power of evaporating water, according to research conducted at the Wyss Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University. Its developers foresee electrical generators driven by changes in humidity from sun-warmed ponds and harbors.
Jan 27th, 2014
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European research consortium to develop simulation tools, materials and processes to enable further miniaturization of nanoelectronics
Jan 27th, 2014
Read moreFor the first time ever, scientists have managed to move single atoms vertically inside a crystal. This is important for the further development of nanostructures. Simultaneously, the physicists found a method for measuring a transistor-like behaviour of single atoms.
Jan 27th, 2014
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Researchers are using a unique method of nanomaterial imaging to more effectively determine the highly variable acid leaching values of Western Australian nickel laterite ores.
Jan 27th, 2014
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New types of solotronic structures, including the world's first quantum dots containing single cobalt ions, have been created and studied at the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw. The materials and elements used to form these structures allow us forecast new trends in solotronics - a field of experimental electronics and spintronics of the future, based on operations occurring on a single-atom level.
Jan 27th, 2014
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Scientists have been able to switch on and off robust ferromagnetism close to room temperature by using low electric fields. Their results are inspiring for future applications in low-power spintronics, for instance in fast, efficient and nonvolatile data storage technologies.
Jan 27th, 2014
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Mit Simulationsverfahren für die Entwicklung neuartiger Transistorstrukturen befasst sich ein Projekt der Arbeitsgruppe Nanoelektronik/Bauelementmodellierung an der Technischen Hochschule Mittelhessen.
Jan 27th, 2014
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Researchers have developed a synthetic strategy that uses SiO2 colloidal nanospheres as a sacrificial template to generate hollow rare-earth silicate spheres with mesoporous shells.
Jan 27th, 2014
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Researchers show how to produce industrial quantities of hydrogen without emitting carbon into the atmosphere.
Jan 26th, 2014
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Here is another installment of our collection of amazing images from nanotechnology labs from all over the world.
Jan 25th, 2014
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