A Princeton-led team of researchers has discovered an entirely new mechanism for making common electronic materials emit laser beams. The finding could lead to lasers that operate more efficiently and at higher temperatures than existing devices, and find applications in environmental monitoring and medical diagnostics.
Dec 22nd, 2008
Read moreProgramming biological cells so that they behave like engineering parts is the focus of research at a new UK centre launched today, thanks to an GBP 8 million grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
Dec 22nd, 2008
Read moreScientists from the EU-funded RECEPTRONICS project are turning to nature, and combining what they learn with the latest in nanotechnology, to find new ways of diagnosing cancer.
Dec 22nd, 2008
Read moreUnder the auspices of the Xiangshan Science Conferences (XSSC), a symposium was held from 18 to 20 December in Beijing to deal with the key science and technology issues in molecular imaging and related application.
Dec 22nd, 2008
Read moreResearch done by scientists in Italy and Switzerland has shown that carbon nanotubes may be the ideal 'smart' brain material.
Dec 21st, 2008
Read moreThe ability to exploit the extraordinary properties of quantum mechanics in novel applications, such as a new generation of super-fast computers, has come closer following recent progress with some of the remaining underlying mathematical problems.
Dec 20th, 2008
Read moreThe Project Partners of a recently completed European Commission FP6 funded Project called RiskBridge will host an international, interdisciplinary conference on risk governance and policy learning within and across six important risk fields, including nanotechnology.
Dec 19th, 2008
Read moreThe National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is interested in detailed pitches for critical national and societal needs that could be the basis for new competitions for research funding under its Technology Innovation Program (TIP).
Dec 19th, 2008
Read moreA research brokering service has been launched by the Nanotechnology Knowledge Transfer Network (NanoKTN), one of the UK's primary knowledge-based networks for Micro and Nanotechnologies.
Dec 19th, 2008
Read moreResearchers today announced that they demonstrated the operation of graphene field-effect transistors at GHz frequencies, and achieved the highest frequencies reported so far using this novel non-silicon electronic material.
Dec 19th, 2008
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Dec 19th, 2008
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A Canadian and British research team has developed a highly effective photonic crystal whose color can be adjusted continuously from UV through the wavelengths of visible light and into the near-infrared range.
Dec 19th, 2008
Read moreA research team led by Prof. NIU Li with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry has made a series of advances in its research into chemical sensor elements based on nano-structured composite materials and their analytical instrumentalization.
Dec 19th, 2008
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Researchers in Japan have produced images of three radioactive isotopes at the same time in a live mouse.
Dec 19th, 2008
Read moreOver the last 60 years, ever-smaller generations of transistors have driven exponential growth in computing power. Could molecules, each turned into miniscule computer components, trigger even greater growth in computing over the next 60?
Dec 18th, 2008
Read moreNanotechnology policy experts are urging that food additives that contain nanoscale materials be subject to new safety testing to ensure that their use does not pose unintended risks.
Dec 18th, 2008
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