Latest EU research magazine features a close-up on nanotechnology
Themes in this psecial include art conservation, electronics, water purification, clothing, building and construction and nanosafety.
Nov 21st, 2014
Read moreThemes in this psecial include art conservation, electronics, water purification, clothing, building and construction and nanosafety.
Nov 21st, 2014
Read moreTechnique could let a small electrical signal change materials' electrical, thermal, and optical characteristics.
Nov 21st, 2014
Read moreResearchers at MIT say they have carried out a theoretical analysis showing that a family of two-dimensional materials exhibits exotic quantum properties that may enable a new type of nanoscale electronics.
Nov 21st, 2014
Read moreThe Baltic Sea Network is an ambitious collaborative research project between partner universities in Germany, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden. The project focuses on the manufacture and characterisation of innovative structured nanomaterials for medical applications.
Nov 21st, 2014
Read moreAt the beginning of 2015, Chalmers University of Technology will start its first mooc - massive open online course - free of charge and accessible to anyone with a computer. The course will be on the super-material graphene, which has not been the subject for a mooc previously.
Nov 21st, 2014
Read moreResearchers have reported the first direct observation of the electronic states of iron-sulfur clusters, common to many enzyme active sites. The states were revealed by computing the complicated quantum mechanical behavior of the electrons in the clusters.
Nov 20th, 2014
Read moreA potential path to identify imperfections and improve the quality of nanomaterials for use in next-generation solar cells has emerged from a collaboration of University of Oregon and industry researchers.
Nov 20th, 2014
Read moreEngineers have developed a polarizing filter that allows in more light, leading the way for mobile device displays that last much longer on a single battery charge and cameras that can shoot in dim light.
Nov 20th, 2014
Read moreResearchers have demonstrated that confined surface phonon polaritons within hexagonal boron nitride exhibit unique metamaterial properties that enable novel nanoscale optical devices for use in optical communications, super-resolution imaging and improved infrared cameras and detectors.
Nov 20th, 2014
Read moreThis new biomarker lights up when it detects tumour cells to allow scientists to take a better look. And it can also release anti-cancer drugs at the same time to the specific cells.
Nov 20th, 2014
Read moreNorwegian researchers are developing electronics that disappear to order.
Nov 20th, 2014
Read morePopular aluminum oxide created by interlacing different crystal forms.
Nov 20th, 2014
Read moreFlexible electronic sensors based on paper have the potential to cut the price of a wide range of medical tools, from helpful robots to diagnostic tests. Scientists have now developed a fast, low-cost way of making these sensors by directly printing conductive ink on paper.
Nov 19th, 2014
Read more In their two day annual meeting, held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, from 22-24 October 2014, 35 partners from 12 EU countries presented their exiting results of the first 12 months of the SUN - Sustainable Nanotechnologies Project.
Nov 19th, 2014
Read moreResearchers have found a novel way to ensure the lights of the future not only are energy efficient but also emit a cozy warmth.
Nov 19th, 2014
Read morePhysicists have discovered a new manganese compound that is produced by tension in the crystal structure of terbium manganese oxide. The technique they used to create this new material could open the way to new nanoscale circuits.
Nov 19th, 2014
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