Validation of Landauer's principle
Researchers show that erasing information produces heat, as predicted by Rolf Landauer fifty years ago, and demonstrates the intimate link between information theory and thermodynamics.
Mar 9th, 2012
Read moreResearchers show that erasing information produces heat, as predicted by Rolf Landauer fifty years ago, and demonstrates the intimate link between information theory and thermodynamics.
Mar 9th, 2012
Read moreThe SIINN (Safe Implementation of Innovative Nanoscience and Nanotechnology) ERA-NET promotes the safe and rapid transfer of European research results in nanoscience and nanotechnology into industrial applications. The first joint call for transnational projects of the SIINN initiative will open on March 20, 2012. The deadline for submitting proposals is June 5, 2012.
Mar 9th, 2012
Read moreResearchers at Oregon State University have tapped into the extraordinary power of carbon nanotubes to increase the speed of biological sensors, a technology that might one day allow a doctor to routinely perform lab tests in minutes, speeding diagnosis and treatment while reducing costs.
Mar 9th, 2012
Read moreBefore they can foresee commercial applications, researchers need to be sure that their water quality sensor can work and be accurate in actual applications, such as monitoring drinking waters, surface waters from a lake or river, or wastewaters from an industry.
Mar 9th, 2012
Read moreA group of French researchers has developed a nanomaterial that works like a sponge for some water pollutants and allows to measure them easily and quickly.
Mar 9th, 2012
Read morePhysicists have discovered an unexpectedly strong bond between organic layers. Such structures are still puzzling scientists throughout the world. These structures form the basis for novel electronic components made from organic semiconductors that are now increasingly used in smart phones and television sets.
Mar 9th, 2012
Read moreResearchers have found a way to use metamaterials to absorb a wide range of light with extremely high efficiency, which they say could lead to a new generation of solar cells or optical sensors.
Mar 9th, 2012
Read moreSuccess in getting gas atoms to emit light collectively, rather than individually, may lead to better imaging technologies.
Mar 9th, 2012
Read moreFluorescence-yield x-ray spectroscopy provides a view into how organic transistors work at the molecular scale.
Mar 9th, 2012
Read moreResearchers wanted to know was what happens when someone gets constant exposure in small doses - the kind you'd get if you were taken a drug or supplement that included nanoparticles in some form.
Mar 8th, 2012
Read moreTechnique could be used to direct growth of blood vessels or tissues in the laboratory.
Mar 8th, 2012
Read moreAn international team of physicists has developed a method for taking ultrafast "sonograms" that can track the structural changes that take place within solid materials in trillionth-of-a-second intervals as they go through an important physical process called a phase transition.
Mar 8th, 2012
Read moreGlobal technology leaders will descend upon North Carolina for the Nanotech Commercialization Conference (NCC), hosted by the Center of Innovation for Nanobiotechnology (COIN), the NanoBusiness Commercialization Association (NanoBCA) and the North Carolina Office of Science and Technology. Corporate, investor, start-up and academic leaders will all be in attendance at this cutting edge event in Durham, NC, April 4th-5th, 2012.
Mar 8th, 2012
Read moreThe National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) invites applications from small businesses to conduct innovative research in three high-priority areas, including studies relating to the occupational health and safety aspects of nanotechnology.
Mar 8th, 2012
Read more'Lucky' combination of chemicals and laser pulses enables high-resolution, 3-D patterning for futuristic optical materials.
Mar 8th, 2012
Read moreMicro- and nanodroplets flowing inside barely visible channels may serve as miniature chemical reactors. The research in this modern area of contemporary chemistry can be pursued more effectively with a new laboratory that has just opened at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.
Mar 8th, 2012
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