Preparing semiconductor quantum dots is sometimes more of a black art than a science. That presents an obstacle to further progress in, for example, creating better solar cells or lighting devices, where quantum dots offer unique advantages that would be particularly useful if they could be used as basic building blocks for constructing larger nanoscale architectures.
Jul 10th, 2013
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Chemists have performed a DNA-based logic-gate operation within a human cell. The research may pave the way to more complicated computations in live cells, as well as new methods of disease detection and treatment.
Jul 10th, 2013
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Researchers discover a new phenomenon that could lead to new types of lasers and sensors.
Jul 10th, 2013
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A collaboration of biologists, engineers, and material scientists has found that jagged edges of graphene can easily pierce cell membranes, allowing graphene to enter the cell and disrupt normal function. Understanding the mechanical forces of nanotoxicity should help engineers design safer materials at the nanoscale.
Jul 10th, 2013
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A simplified technique to fabricate nanocrystals of cerium dioxide, which have wide-ranging technological and industrial applications, has been 'unexpectedly' demonstrated by a UNSW chemist.
Jul 10th, 2013
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Anyone who has ever worked in a laboratory has seen them: magnetic stirrers that rotate magnetic stir bars in liquids to mix them. The stir bars come in many different forms - now including nanometer-sized. Researchers have now introduced chains made of 40 nm iron oxide particles that act as the world's smallest magnetic stir bars, effectively stirring picoliter-sized drops of emulsion with a commercial magnetic stirrer.
Jul 10th, 2013
Read moreThis new technique will play a major role in the production of novel materials, from metals, alloys, metal matrix composites to micro- and nanostructured semiconductors.
Jul 10th, 2013
Read moreResearchers have developed a concept to potentially improve delivery of drugs for cancer treatment using nanoparticles that concentrate and expand in the presence of higher acidity found in tumor cells.
Jul 10th, 2013
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All the objects around us emit thermal radiation. Usually, this radiation can be described very accurately using Planck's law. If, however, the radiating object is smaller than the thermal wavelength, it behaves according to different rules and cannot emit the energy efficiently. This has now been confirmed by a team of researchers at the Vienna University of Technology.
Jul 10th, 2013
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A BRIGHT future beckons for a University of Huddersfield metrology instrumentation designer who has recently completed his doctorate, won a national award and will now embark on a project to bring a patented product to the market.
Jul 10th, 2013
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Researchers are reporting advances in these areas by using gelatin-based microparticles to deliver growth factors to specific areas of embryoid bodies, aggregates of differentiating stem cells. The localized delivery technique provides spatial control of cell differentiation within the cultures, potentially enabling the creation of complex three-dimensional tissues.
Jul 9th, 2013
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Embedded diodes boost Rice University invention's potential as robust, roomy memory.
Jul 9th, 2013
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Using nanostructured glass, scientists at the University of Southampton have, for the first time, experimentally demonstrated the recording and retrieval processes of five dimensional digital data by femtosecond laser writing.
Jul 9th, 2013
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New method allows IC manufacturers to reach scaling levels at 20nm and beyond, without compromising speed and device cross-talk.
Jul 9th, 2013
Read moreCEA-Leti said today that its multi-partner programs, IDEAL and IMAGINE, have demonstrated cost-effective solutions that extend 193nm immersion lithography for 1X nodes for critical levels such as contact and via, and for the cut layer, when multi-patterning is used.
Jul 9th, 2013
Read moreThe approach points the way toward new ways to silence malfunctioning genes.
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