A radical, new method developed at NIST that transforms the humble, ubiquitous and inexpensive optical microscope into a powerful three-dimensional nanoscale and microscale measurement device has won one of this year's prestigious R+D 100 Awards.
Jul 22nd, 2010
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Researchers have shown that an advanced cooling technology being developed for high-power electronics in military and automotive systems is capable of handling roughly 10 times the heat generated by conventional computer chips.
Jul 22nd, 2010
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Researchers at JILA have demonstrated the use of infrared laser light to quickly and precisely heat the water in 'nano bathtubs' - tiny sample containers - for microscopy studies of the biochemistry of single molecules and nanoparticles.
Jul 22nd, 2010
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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have cultivated many thousands of nanocrystals in what looks like a pinscreen or 'pin art' on silicon, a step toward reliable mass production of semiconductor nanowires for millionths-of-a-meter-scale devices such as sensors and lasers.
Jul 22nd, 2010
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When waves - regardless of whether light or sound - collide, they overlap creating interferences. Austrian and Canadian quantum physicists have now been able to rule out the existence of higher-order interferences experimentally and thereby confirmed an axiom in quantum physics: Born's rule.
Jul 22nd, 2010
Read moreScientists for the first time have dived into the effect that an intense X-ray free electron laser (XFEL) has on materials.
Jul 22nd, 2010
Read moreOn July 26th, Stevens will host over 100 students and researchers from local universities and companies for a one-day workshop on NEMS/MEMS with a focus on Nanomanufacturing.
Jul 22nd, 2010
Read moreNew method can facilitate customized molecular medicine.
Jul 22nd, 2010
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Collaboration by chemists, physicists and materials scientists at the University of Pennsylvania has created a simple and inexpensive method to rapidly grow centimeter-scale membranes of binary nanocrystal superlattices, or BNSLs, by crystallizing a mixture of nanocrystals on a liquid surface.
Jul 22nd, 2010
Read moreDr. Hiroyuki Yano will make a keynote presentation at the 2010 International Conference on Nanotechnology for the Forest Products Industry. The theme of this year's event is 'Getting Down to Business with Nanotech Products'.
Jul 22nd, 2010
Read moreThis broad and practically oriented course has been put forward to meet the needs from industries to gain knowledge and understanding about current research going on in this expansive field.
Jul 22nd, 2010
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The Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciencies (IPC PAS) developed an innovative sewage treatment process allowing nanometric size pollutants to be separated.
Jul 22nd, 2010
Read moreA group of researchers from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center is developing a way to treat cancer by using lasers to light up tiny nanoparticles and destroy tumors with the ensuing heat.
Jul 22nd, 2010
Read moreThe event brought together 17 research institutions including the University of Sydney, the University of Manchester, Bayer CropScience and the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, to share their latest advances. 172 delegates attended the conference with 45 scientific posters displayed.
Jul 22nd, 2010
Read moreThe American Society for Nanomedicine (ASNM) is holding its second annual conference on October 14-16, 2010 in the Washington, D.C. area, where some of the biggest stakeholders in this emerging technology operate and practice.
Jul 22nd, 2010
Read moreA researcher has found ways to use magnetic resonance to capture rays of visible light and route them around objects, rendering those objects invisible to the human eye.
Jul 21st, 2010
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