'Shift to Green' Festivity highlights green technologies with introduction of new award category: Green Innovator of the Year.
Jun 24th, 2008
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A team of scientists has just carried out the first detailed experimental study regarding photoluminescence up-conversion in semiconductor nanostructures. Based on this, the development of a vibration-free cooling of semiconductors might be possible.
Jun 24th, 2008
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Precision control of DNA separation using an electric field.
Jun 24th, 2008
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To meet the demand for batteries having higher energy density and improved cycle characteristics, in recent years, a great deal of attempt has been made to develop new electrode materials or design new structures of electrode materials.
Jun 24th, 2008
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It has been little more than 20 years since the discovery of buckyballs, hollow spherical molecules made entirely of carbon atoms, which serve as the starting point for this field of study. In 1996, Richard Errett Smalley won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the breakthrough. While there have been accomplishments at the pinnacle of academics in this emerging field, there is still a need for more accessible introductory curricula.
Jun 24th, 2008
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Roland Kawakami's lab at UC Riverside proposes a simple technique for controlling electron spin and current flow.
Jun 23rd, 2008
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Quantum dots are dramatically better than existing methods for delivering a gene-silencing tool into cells. The quantum-dot chaperones help impede the cell's production of a given protein.
Jun 23rd, 2008
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A new technique for attaching light-sensitive organic molecules to metal surfaces allows the molecules to be switched between two different configurations in response to exposure to different wavelengths of light.
Jun 23rd, 2008
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers have captured time-series snapshots of a solid as it evolves on the ultra-fast timescale.
Jun 23rd, 2008
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New record in ultrafast metrology: Physicists at Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich are the first to produce light pulses lasting only 80 attoseconds.
Jun 23rd, 2008
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Researchers finally determined what makes diamond films such slippery customers, settling a debate on the scientific origin of its properties and providing new knowledge that will help create the next generation of super low friction materials.
Jun 23rd, 2008
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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
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The 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
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Applications 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
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