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Graphene Flagship has set sails

The Graphene Flagship - one of Europe's first ten-year, 1,000 million Euro flagships in Future and Emerging Technologies - was launched during a ceremony in Gothenburg today.

Oct 11th, 2013

Nanotechnology researchers find rust can power up artificial photosynthesis

Boston College chemists produce power boost critical to novel energy harvesting applications.

Oct 11th, 2013

Toward single-molecule microscopy and spectroscopy on smartphones

New work opens the fascinating prospects of single-molecule microscopy and spectroscopy on a smart phone. One can now speculate on the possible applications of such a portable imaging device and on the perspectives it may open in different fields of science and technology.

Oct 11th, 2013

Nanotechnology lab fabricates all-carbon nanotube electronic devices

Researchers fabricate all-carbon nanotube thin-film transistors on flexible substrates through CVD and transfer methods.

Oct 11th, 2013

Building better molecules for bendable electronics

A sequence of ring-forming chemical reactions produces organic semiconductors ideal for flexible electronic device applications.

Oct 11th, 2013

Nanoimprinting technique makes it possible to fabricate visible-light-bending metamaterials at unprecedented scales

Researchers in Japan have demonstrated a scalable fabrication method that greatly eases the production of metamaterials that can interact with light at visible wavelengths.

Oct 11th, 2013

Photons on demand now possible on hair's width optical chip

A breakthrough in photonics that will help create extremely compact optical chips, a hair's width in size and delivering a photon at a time, has been achieved by researchers from the University of Sydney.

Oct 11th, 2013

$1.5bn investment to jump-start New York's second nanotechnology hub

Investment by leading technology companies will create 1,000 new jobs, establish computer chip commercialization consortium to jump-start Nano Utica under construction at SUNYIT.

Oct 10th, 2013

Mix of graphene nanoribbons and polymer has potential for cars, soda, beer

A discovery at Rice University aims to make vehicles that run on compressed natural gas more practical. It might also prolong the shelf life of bottled beer and soda.

Oct 10th, 2013

Bending world's thinnest glass shows atoms' dance

Researchers have used an electron microscope to bend, deform and melt the one-molecule-thick glass. These are all things that happen just before glass shatters, and for the first time, the researchers have directly imaged such deformations and the resulting 'dance' of rearranging atoms in silica glass.

Oct 10th, 2013

New nanomembrane micro water sensor can aid growers

Cornell researchers have developed a microfluidic water sensor within a fingertip-sized silicon chip that is a hundred times more sensitive than current devices.

Oct 10th, 2013

'Ship in a bottle' detects dangerous vapors

Rice University scientists took a lesson from craftsmen of old to assemble microscopic compounds that warn of the presence of dangerous fumes from solvents.

Oct 10th, 2013

New model gives better control of self-assembly processes

Researchers have developed a new model that allows better control of self-assembly, the process through which molecules aggregate by themselves into larger clusters. This model could be used in the production of plastic solar cells, and is an interesting step in the long?term process of developing a synthetic cell.