Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists and collaborators are developing a new military uniform material that repels chemical and biological agents using a novel carbon nanotube fabric.
Oct 18th, 2012
Read moreNano-ribbons of silicon configured so the atoms resemble chicken wire could hold the key to ultrahigh density data storage and information processing systems of the future.
Oct 18th, 2012
Read moreA potential new treatment for traumatic brain injury (TBI), which affects thousands of soldiers, auto accident victims, athletes and others each year, has shown promise in laboratory research, scientists are reporting.
Oct 17th, 2012
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A Princeton-Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) collaboration announces the successful excitation of a spin qubit using a resonant cavity. The circuit, via the cavity, senses the presence of the qubit as if it were a bit of capacitance.
Oct 17th, 2012
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Caltech researchers engineer microscale optical accelerometer.
Oct 17th, 2012
Read moreThe claim that nanopore technology is on the verge of making DNA analysis so fast and cheap that a person's entire genome could be sequenced in just minutes and at a fraction of the cost of available commercial methods, has resulted in overwhelming academic, industrial, and global interest. But a review questions whether the remaining technical hurdles can be overcome to create a workable, easily produced commercial device.
Oct 17th, 2012
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Platinum works well as a catalyst in hydrogen fuel cells, but it has at least two drawbacks: It is expensive, and it degrades over time. Brown chemists have engineered a cheaper and more durable catalyst using graphene, cobalt, and cobalt-oxide - the best nonplatinum catalyst yet.
Oct 17th, 2012
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today the selection of the Nanoelectronics Research Initiative (NRI), a collaboration of several key firms in the semiconductor industry, to support university-centered research for the development of after-the-next-generation nanoelectronics technology.
Oct 17th, 2012
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A team of researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) likely would likely prevail in such a hypothetical wager. On the basis of its surprising findings in an exacting study of the motions of an experimental microelectromechanical system (MEMS), the team might even offer better-then-even odds.
Oct 17th, 2012
Read moreA team of researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology has discovered that if graphite is sticky enough, as measured by a nanoscale probe, it actually becomes harder to slide a tip across the material's surface as you decrease pressure - the exact opposite of our everyday experience.
Oct 17th, 2012
Read moreRemoving lead from manufacturing processes and products is high priority for the EU. A European research programme has tackled the problem of high-temperature solders used in the electronics industry.
Oct 17th, 2012
Read moreEuropean scientists set out to develop new materials and their processing methods for fabrication of transparent electronics and displays with EU funding of the Organic Electronics project.
Oct 17th, 2012
Read moreScientists conducted groundbreaking single-electron experiments with exciting results for the field of nanoelectronics and quantum computing.
Oct 17th, 2012
Read moreEU funding enabled European scientists to develop solid-state semiconductor components with magnetic properties, a prerequisite for a new generation of electronic devices exploiting both the charge and the spin of electrons.
Oct 17th, 2012
Read moreThough not often considered beyond the plasma television, small-scale microplasmas have great utility in a wide variety of applications. Recently, new developments have begun to capitalize on how these microplasmas interact with liquids in applications ranging from killing bacteria for sterilizing a surface to rapidly synthesizing nanoparticles.
Oct 16th, 2012
Read moreNew research findings address a current neuroengineering and pathology research problem concerning prion infection and transport within neuronal cells.
Oct 16th, 2012
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