When old is new again
A fundamental effect associated with electrons also occurs in non-charged particles - a potential boon for spintronics.
Oct 1st, 2010
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Bio meets nano: Quantum dots as light antennas for artificial photosynthetic systems
Our attempts to use solar energy continue to be very ineffective; the true masters of this craft are photosynthetic plants, algae, and bacteria. Science is trying to emulate these organisms.
Oct 0th, 2010
Read moreFighting cancers by tagging their triggers
USC professor creating real-time nanolaser DNA imaging to locate carcinogens and their induced changes in living cells.
Sep 30th, 2010
Read moreSlicing proteins with Occam's Razor
Vermont scientists invent new way to view atomic motion of proteins.
Sep 30th, 2010
Read moreCatalyst sandwich
Synthetic PCR mimic could lead to highly sensitive medical, environmental diagnostics
Sep 30th, 2010
Read moreHydrogen fuel for thought
Rice researchers find metallacarboranes may meet DOE storage goals.
Sep 30th, 2010
Read moreMulti-component nanostructures with tunable optical properties
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory report the first successful assembly of 3-D multi-component nanoscale structures with tunable optical properties that incorporate light-absorbing and -emitting particles.
Sep 30th, 2010
Read moreSynthetic platelet maker receives innovator award
CWRU researcher aims to stem bleeding from traumatic injury.
Sep 30th, 2010
Read moreGraphene may hold key to speeding up DNA sequencing
Researchers from Harvard University and MIT have demonstrated that graphene, a surprisingly robust planar sheet of carbon just one-atom thick, can act as an artificial membrane separating two liquid reservoirs.
Sep 30th, 2010
Read moreNanotechnology workshop and other bilateral cooperation berween NCKU and Argonne
National Cheng Kung University and Argonne National Laboratory hope to expand their cooperation.
Sep 30th, 2010
Read morePhysicists break color barrier for sending, receiving photons
Research at the University of Oregon could boost quantum computing and deliver advanced Web security.
Sep 30th, 2010
Read moreCarl Zeiss announces winners of its Nano Image Contest
After a two-week final stretch the winners of the first Carl Zeiss Nano Image Contest have now been chosen.
Sep 30th, 2010
Read moreMount Sinai leads program of excellence in nanotechnology with $16.5 million grant
Mount Sinai School of Medicine received a contract for almost $16.5 million from The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Heart and Lung Institute (NHLBI) through the Program of Excellence in Nanotechnology (PEN). The contract is one of four issued nationally to develop multidisciplinary research Centers with the goal of developing nanotechnology tools for diagnosing and treating heart, lung and blood diseases.
Sep 29th, 2010
Read moreNanotechnology team reports the strongest organic nanomaterial ever developed
A revolutionary new spherical nanostructure, fully derived from very simple organic elements, yet strong as steel, has been developed and characterized at the laboratories of Ehud Gazit of Tel Aviv University and Itay Rousso of the Weizmann Institute of Science.
Sep 29th, 2010
Read more3 tiny qubits, another big step toward quantum computing
A team led by Yale researchers has achieved the entanglement of three solid-state qubits, or quantum bits, for the first time.
Sep 29th, 2010
Read moreWUSTL awarded $18 million to treat heart, lungs with nanotechnology
An $18 million research program headed by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis will research therapies and diagnostic tools for heart and lung diseases that use nanotechnology.
Sep 29th, 2010
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