In what could be a step toward higher efficiency solar cells, an international team including University of Michigan professors has invalidated the most commonly used model to explain the behavior of a unique class of materials called highly mismatched alloys.
Sep 9th, 2010
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The California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA has announced plans to collaborate with Hamamatsu Photonics Corp., a leading developer and manufacturer of photon detectors and camera systems, to apply nanoscience and nanotechnology to projects having global importance in health, medicine, energy and the environment.
Sep 9th, 2010
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Using a one-of-a-kind instrument designed and built at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an international team of researchers have 'unveiled' a quartet of graphene's electron states and discovered that electrons in graphene can split up into an unexpected and tantalizing set of energy levels when exposed to extremely low temperatures and extremely high magnetic fields.
Sep 8th, 2010
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Researchers from ETH Zurich's Institute for Field Theory and High Frequency Electronics have developed new surfaces for radar absorption. Thanks to this multifaceted application, window panes could even double up as solar panels in future.
Sep 8th, 2010
Read moreA North Carolina State University researcher and colleagues have figured out a way to make an aluminum alloy, or a mixture of aluminum and other elements, just as strong as steel.
Sep 8th, 2010
Read moreScientists at the UK's National Physical Laboratory have developed a new strategy for quicker and more precise detection of biomarkers - proteins which indicate disease. The work could pave the way for new tools to detect early stages of Alzheimer's and cancer at the molecular level.
Sep 8th, 2010
Read moreUnter der Leitung von Dr. Jan Hamaekers widmen sich die Fraunhofer-Forscher der Simulation neuer Materialien auf der Nano-, Mikro- und Makro-Skala auf Hochleistungs-Parallelrechnern. Dabei nutzen sie moderne numerischen Multiskalen-Methoden aus der Quantenmechanik, Molekueldynamik und der Kontinuumsmechanik.
Sep 8th, 2010
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University of Sydney researchers have discovered a new super-strength light alloy and had their key findings published in Nature Communications.
Sep 8th, 2010
Read moreHere is a news update from the ICPC Nanonet project on free DVDs and webinars this month.
Sep 8th, 2010
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The experiments conducted in the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences on super-thin liquid-crystal films created on water surface allowed the surprisingly slow and continuous rotational motion of molecules, rotating 'in unison', to be observed nearly with the naked eye.
Sep 8th, 2010
Read moreThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), National Center for Environmental Research (NCER), invites applications for the Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Fellowships for graduate environmental study for master's and doctoral level students.
Sep 8th, 2010
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Potenziale und Herausforderungen von Innovationen aus der Material- und Nanotechnologieforschung zeigt der im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums fuer Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) vom VDI Technologiezentrum organisierte Branchendialog auf der Messe IFAT Entsorga in Muenchen am 14. September 2010.
Sep 8th, 2010
Read moreResearchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Howard University in Washington, D.C. have received $3.15 million over the next five years from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to launch a new interdisciplinary program in the environmental effects and policy implications of nanotechnology.
Sep 7th, 2010
Read moreThere may be better ways to engineer the planet's climate to prevent dangerous global warming than mimicking volcanoes, a University of Calgary climate scientist says in two new studies.
Sep 7th, 2010
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Der diesjaehrige SolarWorld Junior Einstein-Award geht an Dr. Christian Reimann vom Fraunhofer-Institut fuer Integrierte Systeme und Bauelementetechnologie in Erlangen. Der Mineraloge entwickelte ein Verfahren zur Erhoehung der Materialqualitaet gerichtet erstarrter Siliciumbloecke.
Sep 7th, 2010
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Porous metal-organic framework made from food-grade natural products.
Sep 7th, 2010
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