Advanced Investigator Grant geht an das Forschungsproject Graphenochem
In den naechsten fuenf Jahren wird das Forschungsprojekt Graphenochem mit ueber 1,4 Millionen Euro gefoerdert.
Nov 11th, 2009
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New e-beam advances bring ultra-high density data storage closer
Ultra-high-density data storage is now a step closer thanks to an advance in device fabrication achieved by Bao-Yu Zong and co-workers from the Data Storage Institute of A*STAR in Singapore.
Nov 11th, 2009
Read moreResearchers overcome barrier for organic electronics
Providing insight into a frustrating inconsistency in the performance of electronics made with organic materials, Stanford researchers have shown that the way boundaries between individual crystals in a film are aligned can make a 70-fold difference in how easily current, or electrical charges, can move through transistors.
Nov 11th, 2009
Read morePioneering research develops novel nanotechnology devices
University of Toronto researchers continue to uncover the mysteries of space. But even the best astronauts in the world are stymied if the spaceship doesn't launch.
Nov 11th, 2009
Read moreSwiss-Japanese partnership supports medical research in both countries
The Swiss-Japanese partnership supports scientists in both countries when carrying out medical research. ETH researcher Takashi Ishikawa's project demonstrates the benefits of this. Researchers can now apply again with new projects.
Nov 11th, 2009
Read more'Homegrown' hybrid solar cell aims for low-cost power
Argonne National Laboratory have refined a technique to manufacture solar cells by creating tubes of semiconducting material and then 'growing' polymers directly inside them. The method has the potential to be significantly cheaper than the process used to make today's commercial solar cells.
Nov 10th, 2009
Read moreNew 'finFET' promising for smaller transistors, more powerful chips
Purdue University researchers are making progress in developing a new type of transistor that uses a finlike structure instead of the conventional flat design, possibly enabling engineers to create faster and more compact circuits and computer chips.
Nov 10th, 2009
Read moreSculptured materials allow multiple channel plasmonic sensors
Sensors, communications devices and imaging equipment that use a prism and a special form of light -- a surface plasmon-polariton -- may incorporate multiple channels or redundant applications if manufacturers use sculptured thin films.
Nov 10th, 2009
Read moreCarbon nanotube research part of $3 million Air Force award to enhance energy efficiency
Clemson University is part of a five-year $3 million Air Force Office of Scientific Research award, along with the University of Texas at Dallas and Yale University, to search for nanoscale materials that superconduct to allow for efficient flow of a current.
Nov 10th, 2009
Read moreAward-winning technology will increase the safety of batteries used in laptops
ITRI (Industrial Technology Research Institute), Taiwan's largest and one of the world's leading high-tech research and development institutions, introduces STOBA (self-terminated oligomers with hyper-branched architecture), the first material technology to enhance the safety of lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries.
Nov 10th, 2009
Read moreNanoelectronics work combines DNA self-assembly with carbon nanotubes
n work that someday may lead to the development of novel types of nanoscale electronic devices, an interdisciplinary team of researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has combined DNA's talent for self-assembly with the remarkable electronic properties of carbon nanotubes, thereby suggesting a solution to the long-standing problem of organizing carbon nanotubes into nanoscale electronic circuits.
Nov 10th, 2009
Read moreSafe Work Australia releases two new reports for its Nanotechnology Occupational Health and Safety Program
These reports were published as part of the Nanotechnology Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Program, which is managed by Safe Work Australia for the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research.
Nov 10th, 2009
Read moreInterdisciplinary research team developing novel drug detection technology
With the support of a $2.7 million Recovery Act grant from the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) an interdisciplinary team headed by Vanderbilt chemist John McLean and physicist John Wikswo will attempt to determine whether an individual's white blood cells retain chemical memories of exposure to drugs like cocaine and alcohol that can be read reliably and unambiguously.
Nov 10th, 2009
Read moreNew nanocrystalline diamond AFM probes overcome wear
Researchers at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University have developed, characterized, and modeled a new kind of probe used in atomic force microscopy (AFM), which images, measures, and manipulates matter at the nanoscale.
Nov 10th, 2009
Read moreEU consumer bodies launch nanotechnology consumer product inventory
Two European consumer organisations - the European Consumers' Organisation (BEUC) and the European consumer voice in standardisation (ANEC) - have jointly launched a first stab at a nanotechnology inventory to tell consumers which products on the EU market contain nanomaterials.
Nov 10th, 2009
Read moreUK Advisory Committee on Hazardous Waste urges further studies on nanosilver in consumer products
The Advisory Committee on Hazardous Substances to the United Kingdom's Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), in a 'Report on Nanosilver' has recommended to British government agencies that they gather information about products containing nanosilver, saying that the information on both the hazards of and exposure to nanosilver is urgently required.
Nov 10th, 2009
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