Steven Pieper and Robert Wiringa, senior scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, have won the 2010 Tom W. Bonner Prize in nuclear physics.
Oct 29th, 2009
Read moreDr Amanda Barnard was awarded the 2009 Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year for major contributions to the field of nanoscience.
Oct 29th, 2009
Read moreMarkku Rajala has been nominated as the awardee of the Fine Particle Forum Award 2009. For long, Rajala has carried a central role in the networking of the Finnish fine particle field by increasing the interaction both between academia and industry and within industry stakeholders, in an unprejudiced, interdisciplinary way.
Oct 29th, 2009
Read moreFirst-ever simulation of a stretching silver nanowire over a period of a millisecond.
Oct 29th, 2009
Read moreOfficials from University of North Carolina (UNC) Greensboro and N.C. A+T State University will hold a groundbreaking for the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering at 3 p.m. Monday, Nov. 9, at the South Campus of Gateway University Research Park, 2901 E. Lee Street, Greensboro.
Oct 29th, 2009
Read moreA collaborative team of biologists and nanotechnologists have demonstrated how seeds exposed to carbon nanotubes in the agar medium sprouted up to two times faster than control seed, a growth enhancement that has enormous potential on agriculture as well as plant-based biofuel production.
Oct 28th, 2009
Read moreHRL Laboratories, LLC, announced today it will continue groundbreaking work developing electronics that simulate the cognitive capabilities and efficiencies of the biological brain as part of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency's (DARPA) SyNAPSE program, or Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics.
Oct 28th, 2009
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Scientists in California are reporting development of a new generation of the microcapsules used in carbon-free copy paper, in which capsules burst and release ink with pressure from a pen. The new microcapsules burst when exposed to light, releasing their contents in ways that could have wide-ranging commercial uses from home and personal care to medicine.
Oct 28th, 2009
Read moreScientists in Switzerland are reporting results of one of the first studies on the release of silver nanoparticles from laundering those anti-odor, anti-bacterial socks now on the market.
Oct 28th, 2009
Read moreHigh-performance energy storage technologies for the automotive industry or mobile phone batteries and notebooks providing long battery times - these visions of the future are being brought one step nearer to the present by scientists from Graz University of Technology.
Oct 28th, 2009
Read moreThe 5-year grant will fund research which could lead to ways to produce highly flexible solar panels.
Oct 27th, 2009
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A multidisciplinary team of researchers is the first to find an innovative and novel way to control an electron's spin orientation using purely electrical means.
Oct 27th, 2009
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Researcher Dr. David H. Hughes of the Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, N.Y. is leading a team investigating long-distance, mobile optical links imperative for secure quantum communications capabilities in theater.
Oct 27th, 2009
Read moreA consortium led by The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston has been awarded a major grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to establish a center to conduct innovative cancer research.
Oct 27th, 2009
Read moreSandia researchers have developed a process that can mix tiny volumes of liquid, even in complicated spaces.
Oct 27th, 2009
Read moreThe Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility (CNF) has received $1.38 million in federal stimulus funds to help with equipment upgrades.
Oct 27th, 2009
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