In order to improve the security of the transfer of information, scientists are working on how to translate electrical quantum states to optical quantum states in a way that would enable ultrafast, quantum-encrypted communications. A UC Santa Barbara research team has demonstrated the first and arguably most challenging step in the process.
Posted: Sep 23rd, 2013
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Zitterbewegung in an ultracold gas.
Posted: Sep 23rd, 2013
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These results extend the list of plasmonic nanostructures that can be trapped in three dimensions by single-beam optical tweezers from nanoparticles and nanorods to much longer nanowires, which were formerly considered impossible to trap.
Posted: Sep 23rd, 2013
Read moreFrom the clothes and make-up we wear to the electronic devices we use every day, nanotechnology is becoming ubiquitous. But while industry has mastered the production of such materials, little is known about their fate once their service life comes to an end. The NANO-ECOTOXICITY project looked into their impact on soil organisms.
Posted: Sep 23rd, 2013
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The European Research Council (ERC) has announced that Professor Valeria Nicolosi, based in CRANN (the nanoscience institute at Trinity College Dublin), will receive up to 150,000 Euros funding for a one year project to bridge the gap between her pioneering 'blue sky' research and marketable innovation.
Posted: Sep 23rd, 2013
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A brighter, better, longer-lasting dental implant with a nanotube surface may soon be on its way to your dentist's office.
Posted: Sep 23rd, 2013
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While searching for ever smaller devices that can be used as data storage systems and novel sensors, physicists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have directly observed magnetization dynamics processes in magnetic nanowires and thus paved the way for further research in the field of nanomagnetism.
Posted: Sep 23rd, 2013
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Researchers use low-frequency laser pulses to probe the properties of a kind of fluctuating magnetism known as a spin-liquid state.
Posted: Sep 23rd, 2013
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Recently Dr. Phiraphan Phalusuk, Minister of Science and Technology led a delegation to visit Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA) in Switzerland. The purpose of the visit is to observe and look at ways in which new technology such as nanotechnology is being used in EMPA for fabric functional enhancement.
Posted: Sep 23rd, 2013
Read moreResearchers used gold nanoparticles and designed sensors to measure heparin in blood plasmon samples.
Posted: Sep 23rd, 2013
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A UT Arlington associate professor is working with the American Heart Association on a new method that could use injected nanoparticles to recruit stem cells from the patient's own blood to build needed stents in a patient's failing blood vessels.
Posted: Sep 22nd, 2013
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At the Vienna University of Technology, a new class of thermoelectric materials has been discovered; Due to a surprising physical effect they can be used to create electricity more efficiently.
Posted: Sep 22nd, 2013
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This panel discussion, chaired by The Guardian's Science and Environment Correspondent, Alok Jha, will discuss the contribution nanotechnologies can make to this, and the potential benefits and risks that go hand-in-hand.
Posted: Sep 22nd, 2013
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Or how basic science today drives the electronic marvels of tomorrow.
Posted: Sep 21st, 2013
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In July 2013, 45 blind and visually impaired high school students from around the country gathered at Towson University for a weeklong event designed to expose them to science careers long believed to be impossible for the blind.
Posted: Sep 20th, 2013
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Engineers at The Ohio State University are working to improve manufacturing of nanoparticles for biomedical applications. The research, if successful, will result in faster production times of more uniform particles at a lower cost, and ultimately lead to improved diagnostic capabilities.
Posted: Sep 20th, 2013
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