Seeking a way to confirm that patients have taken their medication, University of Florida engineering researchers have added a tiny microchip and digestible antenna to a standard pill capsule. The prototype is intended to pave the way for mass-produced pills that, when ingested, automatically alert doctors, loved ones or scientists working with patients in clinical drug trials.
Mar 31st, 2010
Read more
A closer look at a promising nanotube coating that might one day improve solar cells has turned up a few unexpected wrinkles, according to new research - research that also may help scientists iron out a solution.
Mar 31st, 2010
Read more
A multidisciplinary research team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has found that an organic semiconductor may be a viable candidate for creating large-area electronics, such as solar cells and displays that can be sprayed onto a surface as easily as paint.
Mar 31st, 2010
Read more
Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have built and tested a device for trapping electrically charged atoms (ions) that potentially could process dozens of ions at once with the most versatile control of any trap demonstrated to date.
Mar 31st, 2010
Read more
How hard do you have to pull on a single atom of - let's say - gold to detach it from the end of a chain of like atoms? It's a measure of the astonishing progress in nanotechnology that questions that once would have interested only physicists or chemists are now being asked by engineers.
Mar 31st, 2010
Read moreCEA-Leti, a leading global research center committed to creating and commercializing innovation in micro- and nanotechnologies, said today that its Hybrid Metrology Project has developed a way to reduce measurement uncertainty in the sub-28nm nodes.
Mar 31st, 2010
Read moreThe NanoBusiness Alliance and the Colorado Nanotechnology Alliance today announced that the 3rd annual Nano Renewable Energy Summit will return to the University of Denver, CO, from May 24-25, 2010.
Mar 31st, 2010
Read more
Rainer Blatt's and Piet Schmidt's research team from the University of Innsbruck have successfully realized a single-atom laser, which shows the properties of a classical laser as well as quantum mechanical properties of the atom-photon interaction.
Mar 31st, 2010
Read moreA*STAR's ICES is one of the key players in the international scientific community to work on a new and exciting area of research known as formulation science.
Mar 31st, 2010
Read more
Unique organic ring compounds combine to form smart materials with tunable visual attributes.
Mar 31st, 2010
Read more
'Nanotwinned' metals display both ultrahigh strength and ductility by forcing crystal dislocations to behave in strange ways.
Mar 31st, 2010
Read more
A novel electronic sensor array for the rapid, accurate and cost-efficient testing of DNA for disease diagnosis has been designed by A*STAR researchers.
Mar 31st, 2010
Read moreThe efficiency of thin-film-based devices, however, could rival that of bulk silicon solar cells if the surface of the thin film is engineered on the nanoscale using the specifications suggested in a theoretical study by Junshuai Li and co-workers at the Institute of Microelectronics, A*STAR.
Mar 31st, 2010
Read moreThe Juelich supercomputer JUGENE can now simulate the largest quantum computer system in the world with 42 bits.
Mar 31st, 2010
Read more
Researchers have developed a new method for adding an extended defect to graphene, a one-atom-thick planar sheet of carbon atoms that many believe could replace silicon as the material for building virtually all electronics.
Mar 30th, 2010
Read moreThe University of Illinois at Chicago will become the first university in the world to have a new generation of electron microscope, promising views up to three times sharper than instruments now commonly used and providing a unique tool for the Midwest's academic and industrial research community.
Mar 30th, 2010
Read more
Subscribe to our Nanotechnology News feed