The NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) and Engineering (ENG) Directorates invested a total of just over $12 million for 22 grants in support of 14 distinct DMREF projects intended to yield a range of new developments.
Oct 12th, 2012
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More efficient energy use could result from a direct experimental observation of atomic behavior inside nanoscale cages.
Oct 12th, 2012
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MIT team applies technology developed for visual 'cloaking' to enable more efficient transfer of electrons.
Oct 12th, 2012
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A new breakthrough in solar technology means portable electronic devices such as e-book readers could soon be re-charged on the move in low light levels and partial shading.
Oct 11th, 2012
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Researchers describe ways to use natural silk for implantable optics, compostable lasers, and microfibers integrated into photonic chips.
Oct 11th, 2012
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Researchers from North Carolina State University have created flower-like structures out of germanium sulfide (GeS) - a semiconductor material - that have extremely thin petals with an enormous surface area. The GeS flower holds promise for next-generation energy storage devices and solar cells.
Oct 11th, 2012
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Greatly increasing the storage capacity of gas tanks is just one of the applications being made possible because of a revolutionary TARDIS-like nanomaterial being manufactured by MOF Technologies.
Oct 11th, 2012
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A team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania has found a way to generate this kind of "structural color" that has the added benefit of another trait of butterfly wings: super-hydrophobicity, or the ability to strongly repel water.
Oct 11th, 2012
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The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, established in 2000, seeks to support a variety of projects - from advancing environmental research and patient care to high impact fundamental research . Among this year's selected projects is the development of a quantum electron microscope, an instrument which would mean a big step for the investigation of biological samples.
Oct 11th, 2012
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The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) warns that thresholds for registering nanoproducts with the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) remain too high.
Oct 11th, 2012
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Oct 11th, 2012
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A new paper looks at the evolution of two-photon states in an elliptic array of waveguides.
Oct 11th, 2012
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Imagine being able to store thousands of songs and high-resolution images on data devices no bigger than a fingernail. Researchers from A*STAR's Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) and the National University of Singapore have discovered that an ultra-smooth surface is the key factor for 'self-assembly' - a cheap, high-volume, high-density patterning technique.
Oct 11th, 2012
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Nobel Prize-winner Professor Kostya Novoselov and an international team of authors has produced a 'Graphene Roadmap' which for the first time sets out what the world's thinnest, strongest and most conductive material can truly achieve.
Oct 10th, 2012
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A breakthrough in plasmonics could allow the creation of on-demand electronic devices on graphene by hitting the material with light of a particular wavelength or at a certain angle.
Oct 10th, 2012
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Nanotechnology-based materials identification enables critically needed chemical metrology for nano-manufacturing.
Oct 10th, 2012
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