Using swarms of untethered grippers, each as small as a speck of dust, engineers and physicians have devised a new way to perform biopsies that could provide a more effective way to access narrow conduits in the body as well as find early signs of cancer or other diseases.
Posted: Apr 23rd, 2013
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The webinar is ideal for biologists that are new to AFM or for AFM experts starting to study biology.
Posted: Apr 23rd, 2013
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University of Cincinnati research describes the discovery of a new structure that is a fundamental game changer in the physics of semiconductor nanowires.
Posted: Apr 23rd, 2013
Read moreResearchers from North Carolina State University have solved a long-standing materials science problem, making it possible to create new semiconductor devices using zinc oxide -- including efficient ultraviolet lasers and LED devices for use in sensors and drinking water treatment, as well as new ferromagnetic devices.
Posted: Apr 23rd, 2013
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Researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have taken an important step toward harnessing that heat and converting it for practical use. The advance could lead to more energy-efficient appliances and information processing devices.
Posted: Apr 23rd, 2013
Read moreAn international team of scientists has shed new light on a fundamental area of physics which could have important implications for future electronic devices and the transfer of information at the quantum level.
Posted: Apr 23rd, 2013
Read moreEach year, twice as many people die in Europe from hospital acquired infections than from road accidents. These infectious diseases have developed antibiotic resistance and spread despite the best efforts of staff, mainly through textiles like bed linen. But the technology developed by a European research project helps fight back against the so-called superbugs, by using a revolutionary nanotechnology to treat bed linen and other textiles.
Posted: Apr 23rd, 2013
Read morePioneering biophotonics technology developed at Northwestern University is the first screening method to detect the early presence of ovarian cancer in humans by examining cells easily brushed from the neighboring cervix or uterus, not the ovaries themselves.
Posted: Apr 22nd, 2013
Read moreThe latest advances in microtechnologies for smart sensors, energy harvesting, smart power, reconfigurable multimedia, wireless communication, and biomedical applications will be presented next month in Grenoble at SPIE Microtechnologies. The event attracts researchers and developers for an interdisciplinary exchange of technology advances and discussion of future applications.
Posted: Apr 22nd, 2013
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When a team of University of Illinois engineers set out to grow nanowires of a compound semiconductor on top of a sheet of graphene, they did not expect to discover a new paradigm of epitaxy.
Posted: Apr 22nd, 2013
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A Harvard-led team of researchers has created a new type of nanoscale device that converts an optical signal into waves that travel along a metal surface. Significantly, the device can recognize specific kinds of polarized light and accordingly send the signal in one direction or another.
Posted: Apr 22nd, 2013
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Nanometer-scale heating reveals surface plasmon resonance.
Posted: Apr 22nd, 2013
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Good news for the computer industry: a team of researchers has managed to make germanium suitable for lasers. This could enable microprocessor components to communicate using light in future, which will make the computers of the future faster and more efficient.
Posted: Apr 22nd, 2013
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A dye-based imaging technique known as two-photon microscopy can produce pictures of active neural structures in much finer detail than functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, but it requires powerful and expensive lasers. Now, a research team at the University of Pennsylvania has developed a new kind of dye that could reduce the cost of the technique by several orders of magnitude.
Posted: Apr 21st, 2013
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University of Ulster scientists have secured significant funding for a multi-disciplinary solar technology research project aimed at driving down energy costs in an environmentally friendly way.
Posted: Apr 20th, 2013
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In a new study performed at the Center for Nanoscale Materials at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, researchers have for the first time seen the self-assembly of nanoparticle chains in situ, that is, in place as it occurs in real-time.
Posted: Apr 20th, 2013
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