Never get stranded with a dead cell phone again. A promising new nanotechnology called Power Felt, a thermoelectric device that converts body heat into an electrical current, soon could create enough juice to make another call simply by touching it.
Feb 22nd, 2012
Read moreUsing Twitter in university research, teaching and impact activities.
Feb 22nd, 2012
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Wissenschaftler der Uni Goettingen beschaeftigen sich in einem neuen Projekt mit der Erforschung von Spinwellencomputern. Das Rechnen mit Spinwellen koennte in Zukunft eine schnellere parallele Datenverarbeitung in Mikroprozessoren ermoeglichen.
Feb 22nd, 2012
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New information from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) about how layered switching devices for novel computer memory systems work may now allow these structures to come to market sooner, helping bring about faster, lower-powered computers.
Feb 22nd, 2012
Read moreNew microfluidic device with nanomembranes could be used to diagnose and monitor cancer and other diseases.
Feb 22nd, 2012
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Technology developed at MIT can control the composition and structure of these tiny wires as they grow.
Feb 22nd, 2012
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Researchers have developed a "soft template infiltration" technique for fabricating free-standing piezoelectrically active ferroelectric nanotubes and other nanostructures from PZT - a material that is attractive because of its large piezoelectric response.
Feb 22nd, 2012
Read moreElectronics and electrics on or in paper is being used for security, safety, crime prevention, brand enhancement and merchandising. Cost, weight or bulk are a problem, so conventional electronics in paper products is being replaced with printed electronics.
Feb 21st, 2012
Read moreSolar cells, light emitting diodes, displays and other electronic devices could get a bump in performance because of a discovery at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory that establishes new boundaries for controlling band gaps.
Feb 21st, 2012
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Discovery is designed to allow inexpensive detection of poisonous industrial gases by workers wearing small sensor chips filled with gold nanowires.
Feb 21st, 2012
Read moreScientists recently demonstrate serial snapshot femtosecond diffraction (SFX) from nanocrystals using the world's first hard X-ray laser.
Feb 21st, 2012
Read moreA revolutionary material that is used in computer technology could pose health risks to those involved in its manufacture.
Feb 21st, 2012
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Faster, smaller and more energy-efficient - that is what computers of the future should be like. A new phenomenon stands to make a major contribution in this direction: It needs 100,000 times less current than existing technologies, and the number of atoms needed for a data bit could diminish significantly.
Feb 21st, 2012
Read moreAs an initial step towards the development of the WHO/NANOH Guidelines, WHO prepared a draft background document proposing content and focus of the Guidelines. This background document will be used by the Guideline Development Group to identify key questions to be addressed by the Guidelines.
Feb 21st, 2012
Read moreWissenschaftler haben mit Experimenten erstmals das dynamische Verhalten korrelierter einzelner Atome in Festkoerpern simuliert. Es gelang ihnen, Atome in sogenannten optischen Gittern aufzureihen und deren dynamisches Verhalten zu beobachten, das durch das komplexe Zusammenspiel mit anderen Atomen bestimmt ist.
Feb 21st, 2012
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There's nothing ordinary about the materials being designed in the Stupp Laboratory at Northwestern University. Many of the futuristic fibers, films, gels, coatings and putty-like substances have led to important advances in areas of research such as regenerative medicine and energy technologies.
Feb 21st, 2012
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