A team of University of British Columbia researchers has developed a technique that controls the number of electrons on the surface of high-temperature superconductors, a procedure considered impossible for the past two decades.
Jun 23rd, 2008
Read moreThe search for these natural but 'invisible' nanoparticles is important. If they can be proved to exist, the knowledge will help give us a deeper understanding of how gold can be transported and deposited by geological processes, and therefore help explorers to find new gold deposits in Australia.
Jun 23rd, 2008
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Genetic studies on small organisms such as worms and flies can now be done more quickly using a new microfluidic device developed by engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Jun 23rd, 2008
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Forscher aus Wien und Dresden erzeugten Schmelzpunkte in der Oberflaeche eines Kristalls, die nur wenige Nanometer gross waren.
Jun 23rd, 2008
Read moreApplications of nanotechnology to electronics, photonics and renewable energy will be the focus of a joint forum to be held from August 10 to 14, 2009 at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Jun 23rd, 2008
Read moreDARPA is providing $1.4 million to a Phase III research project led by the Argonne National Laboratory to develop high-performance integrated diamond microelectro-mechanical system (MEMS) and complementary metal-oxide-semiconductors devices (CMOS) for radar and mobile communications using an Argonne developed and patented Ultrananocrystalline Diamond film technology.
Jun 23rd, 2008
Read moreImagine a plane that has wings made out of glass. Thanks to a major breakthrough in understanding the nature of glass by scientists at the University of Bristol, this has just become a possibility.
Jun 22nd, 2008
Read moreA new and better method for accelerating bone formation in cases of orthopedic injuries and conditions, such as osteoporosis, fractures and disc disorders, has been developed by Nadav Kimelman at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Faculty of Dental Medicine.
Jun 22nd, 2008
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The high production cost of electricity from silicon-based solar cells has limited the use of the technology. Low cost solar cells with high cell performance are highly desirable and organic solar cells could be the answer.
Jun 22nd, 2008
Read moreA device that removes arsenic from groundwater will compete against a nanotechnology-based drug delivery system and eight other novel technology innovations at the 2008 ASME Innovation Showcase (ASME IShow) to be held Oct. 31, in Boston.
Jun 21st, 2008
Read moreThe Board of Investment (BOI) of Sri Lanka signed agreements for 6 new projects, one of them with the Sri Lanka Institute of Nanotechnology (Private) Limited.
Jun 21st, 2008
Read moreThe University at Albany's College of Nanoscience and Engineering is in line for a $1 million grant under legislation pending with the U.S. Senate.
Jun 20th, 2008
Read moreThe Penn Science Cafe lecture series, free and open to the public, takes science out of the laboratory and treats it to a night on the town.
Jun 20th, 2008
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Our Slow News Friday story for this week is about skin-deep beauty.
Jun 20th, 2008
Read moreA chemistry professor at the University of Connecticut and his graduate students have published new results in Nature Nanotechnology showing how they isolated a particular type of carbon nanotube from a sample and manipulated it in a way that could have broad applicability in drug and gene delivery, electronic devices, and nanotechnology research.
Jun 20th, 2008
Read moreSemiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) today joined with researchers at Stanford University to announce multiple ?firsts? demonstrated with carbon nanotubes to produce CMOS-compatible working circuits on a wafer scale.
Jun 20th, 2008
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