Controlling 'mixing' between acceptor and donor layers, or solar cell domains, in polymer-based solar cells could increase their efficiency, according to a team of researchers that included physicists from North Carolina State University.
Oct 4th, 2012
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Researchers develop light tube that can grab and scan even the tiniest of unicellular organisms.
Oct 4th, 2012
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Nanocellulose, or wood fibre broken down to the nanoscale, mixed with a polymer results in a tough material. This purely natural product may replace synthetic petroleum-based fibres commonly used to reinforce composite materials nowadays.
Oct 4th, 2012
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Information breach may be drastically reduced as a result of a technology breakthrough.
Oct 4th, 2012
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SEFCU and SUNY will serve as Title Sponsors, with semifinal contests to be held in 10 regions across New York as student teams compete for more than $225,000 in prizes.
Oct 4th, 2012
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A trade-off between photon source settings and detector specific requirements allows the generation of high-fidelity single photons.
Oct 4th, 2012
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The European Commission came under fire from Greens and consumer groups for a report on nanotechnology, which stopped short of proposing specific EU regulation.
Oct 4th, 2012
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An international research team led by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and researchers from Kiel University revealed the atomic?level structure of the human peptidase enzyme meprin beta.
Oct 4th, 2012
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First-ever success in evaluating molecules within a sealed organic light emitting diode device in operation.
Oct 4th, 2012
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A research group at the International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) investigated theoretically the charge-neutral Majorana fermions, and proposed a method for their manipulation.
Oct 4th, 2012
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Scientists from TU Berlin, DESY and the University of Paris discovered a surprising effect in the demagnetisation of ferromagnetic materials at DESY's free-electron laser FLASH.
Oct 4th, 2012
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By controlling the placement of key additives (dopant atoms) in an iron oxide catalyst, researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology have found that the final location of the dopants and the temperature at which they are incorporated into the catalyst crystal lattice determine overall catalytic performance in splitting water.
Oct 3rd, 2012
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A current focus in global health research is to make medical tests that are not just cheap, but virtually free. One such strategy is to start with paper - one of humanity's oldest technologies - and build a device like a home-based pregnancy test that might work for malaria, diabetes or other diseases.
Oct 3rd, 2012
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The initiative, titled Quantum Metaphotonics and Quantum Metamaterials, will receive $4.5 million over three years, with a possible two-year extension.
Oct 3rd, 2012
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One way to make magnetic storage drives faster would be to use light to flip the polarity of tiny patches of material, called magnetic domains, back and forth - from 0 to 1 and back again, in computing terms. Now an experiment at a German X-ray laser facility has captured nanoscale, light-induced changes in a material made of layered cobalt and platinum.
Oct 3rd, 2012
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Rapid, accurate genetic sequencing soon may be within reach of every doctor's office if recent research from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Science can be commercialized effectively. The team has demonstrated a potentially low-cost, reliable way to obtain the complete DNA sequences of any individual using a sort of molecular ticker-tape reader, potentially enabling easy detection of disease markers in a patient's DNA.
Oct 3rd, 2012
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