Virginia Tech chemistry Professor Harry C. Dorn, Emory and Henry College chemistry Professor James Duchamp, and Panos Fatouros, professor and chair of the Division of Radiation Physics and Biology at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine have co-invented a hands-off process for filling fullerenes with radioactive material.
Aug 24th, 2009
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Does an exciting but controversial new model of quantum gravity reproduce Einstein's theory of general relativity? Scientists at Texas A+M University in the US explore this question.
Aug 24th, 2009
Read moreVirginia Commonwealth University has received approval from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to offer an interdisciplinary doctoral degree program in nanoscience and nanotechnology.
Aug 24th, 2009
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Solar cells could soon be produced more cheaply using nanoparticle 'inks' that allow them to be printed like newspaper or painted onto the sides of buildings or rooftops to absorb electricity-producing sunlight.
Aug 24th, 2009
Read moreA reference work involving exactly 100 authors just recently appeared: Compendium of Quantum Physics. Concepts, Experiments, History and Philosophy.
Aug 24th, 2009
Read moreA team of researchers from The Australian National University have discovered a way to remove salt from seawater using nanotubes made from boron and nitrogen atoms that will make the process up to five times faster.
Aug 24th, 2009
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Wissenschaftler am Karlsruher Institut fuer Technologie (KIT) beschreiben jetzt erstmals dreidimensionale Metamaterialien, die in spektroskopischen Messgeraeten Anwendung finden koennten.
Aug 24th, 2009
Read moreIn a Federal Register notice published last week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its withdrawal of the final significant new use rules (SNURs) for single- and multi-walled carbon nanotubes.
Aug 24th, 2009
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An der TU Graz, die den Kongress veranstaltet, arbeiten fuehrende Forscher im Bereich der Elektronenmikroskopie. Die Entwicklungen des Institutes fuer Elektronenmikroskopie und Feinstrukturforschung ermoeglichen der Wissenschaft und der Industrie Einblicke in Mikro- und Nanowelten, die beispielsweise das Erkennen von Krankheiten erleichtern, das Fliegen sicherer und Computer schneller machen.
Aug 24th, 2009
Read moreScientists at the University of Tehran have advanced the production of nanofibers with new morphologies by synthesizing functional aureole nanofibers.
Aug 24th, 2009
Read moreThe University of South Australia and SA Water are set to extend a research partnership deal that has seen SA Water invest $3.5m of funding into finding smart ways to manage and re-use water in South Australia.
Aug 24th, 2009
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NASA and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, or AFOSR, have successfully launched a small rocket using an environmentally-friendly, safe propellant comprised of nanoscale aluminum powder and water ice, called ALICE.
Aug 23rd, 2009
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New Iowa State supercomputer, Cystorm, unleashes 28.16 trillion calculations per second.
Aug 23rd, 2009
Read moreA research team at the chemical process technology laboratory of Tabriz University, Iran found solutions for reducing emissions of volatile organic compounds in air.
Aug 23rd, 2009
Read moreA new carbon nanotube sensor developed at MIT is the first sensor that can reversibly detect nitric oxide, a gas that cells commonly use to communicate with each other.
Aug 22nd, 2009
Read moreElena Shevchenko, nanoscientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, has joined a select list of the world's youngest top innovators chosen by Technology Review magazine for her work at Argonne's Center for Nanoscale Materials.
Aug 21st, 2009
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