Chemists at Idaho National Laboratory and Idaho State University have invented a way to manufacture highly precise, uniform nanoparticles to order. The technology, Precision Nanoparticles, has the potential to vastly improve the solar cell and further spur the growing nanotech revolution.
Oct 20th, 2009
Read moreA team of Northwestern University researchers, using an extremely sensitive tool based on nanotechnology, has detected previously undetectable levels of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) in patients who have undergone radical prostatectomy.
Oct 19th, 2009
Read moreThe California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA has announced a collaboration with Photron USA Inc., a manufacturer of high-speed imaging systems and image analysis software, to develop specialized instrumentation for the CNSI's core laboratory facilities.
Oct 19th, 2009
Read moreThe trail to a new multiferroic started with the theories of a U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory scientist and ended with a multidisciplinary collaboration that created a material with potential impact on next generation electronics.
Oct 19th, 2009
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Mother Nature has provided the lizard with a unique ability to regrow body tissue that is damaged or torn - if its tail is pulled off, it grows right back. She has not been quite so generous with human beings. But we might be able to come close, thanks to new research from Tel Aviv University.
Oct 19th, 2009
Read moreThe Midwest Research University Network (MRUN), Illinois Business and Investors Forum (ILBIF), Midwest Co-Investment Network and the Illinois Technology Association (ITA) are joining forces to host a program designed to stimulate investment in technology companies.
Oct 19th, 2009
Read moreResearchers have previously been able to analyse which sugar structures are to be found on certain proteins, but not exactly where on the protein they are positioned. This is now possible thanks to a new technique developed at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Oct 19th, 2009
Read moreA University of Michigan professor is developing an electric rocket thruster, NanoFET, that uses nanoparticle electric propulsion and enables spacecraft to travel faster and with less propellant than previous technology allowed.
Oct 19th, 2009
Read moreUsing nanostructures which are based on semiconductors with special properties, the novel device will have 400 times higher gain than THz quantum cascade lasers, the only coherent T-ray sources existing today.
Oct 19th, 2009
Read moreResearchers have discovered a new material that allows a PEM fuel cell, known as a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell, to work at a higher temperature.
Oct 17th, 2009
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Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH has received a license from the University of California for the commercialization of 'superresolution', a microscopy technique offering extraordinarily high resolution.
Oct 17th, 2009
Read moreIt may look like little more than fishing line, but thin, tough and flexible plastic optical fibre promises to revolutionise high-speed, last-mile communications networks, enable new sensing devices and even add sparkle to clothing. Its evolution is being aided by groundbreaking research in Europe.
Oct 16th, 2009
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Leti, a leading global research center committed to creating and commercializing innovation in micro- and nanotechnologies, today presented results at the SOI Industry Consortium workshop in Leuven, Belgium, that prove SOI-based planar CMOS meets requirements for low-power, 22nm node devices, offering a practical route to further feature shrink and enabling a significant jump for 'green' products.
Oct 16th, 2009
Read moreThe EU executive plans to respond positively to the European Parliament's call for a number of EU policies and regulations covering health and environmental safety issues related to nanomaterials to be reviewed.
Oct 16th, 2009
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Astrophysicists at RIKEN lend their expertise to biologists to develop one of the world's fastest and most sensitive cameras to observe cell behavior at the nanometer scale.
Oct 16th, 2009
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Contrary to expectations, structurally different molecules can display different solvent properties at an interface between air and water, researchers in Japan have discovered.
Oct 16th, 2009
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