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IMEC celebrates its 25th birthday
On January 16, 1984, the memorandum of association of IMEC was signed, and on March 15, now exactly 25 years ago, IMEC appeared as newly established research center in the Belgian Statute Books.
March 16, 2009 Read more
SME announces its annual 'Innovations That Could Change the Way You Manufacture'
To keep the manufacturing and the larger community well informed about what's radical and revolutionary in innovation, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) announces its annual Innovations That Could Change the Way You Manufacture.
March 16, 2009 Read more
Electrifying paper with copper nanoparticles
The Polymer Chemistry Research Group at the University of Helsinki, Finland, has succeeded in producing nano-sized metallic copper particles.
March 16, 2009 Read more
Nanoscopic probes can track down and attack cancer cells
A researcher has developed probes that can help pinpoint the location of tumors and might one day be able to directly attack cancer cells.
March 16, 2009 Read more
Brain on a chip
How does the human brain run itself without any software? Find that out, say European researchers, and a whole new field of neural computing will open up. A prototype 'brain on a chip' is already working.
March 16, 2009 Read more
New organic material may speed Internet access
An international team of researchers has developed an organic material with an unprecedented combination of high optical quality and strong ability to mediate light-light interaction and has engineered the integration of this material with silicon technology so it can be used in optical telecommunication devices.
March 15, 2009 Read more
Call for Contributions: NanoEurope Symposium 25 / 26 November 2009
Submit a proposal either for a short oral presentation or for a poster contribution and present breaking results, ongoing research projects, and speculative or innovative work in progress.
March 14, 2009 Read more
Light-bending metamaterial could lead to superlenses, invisibility cloaks
Researchers at Rice University have created a metamaterial that could light the way toward high-powered optics, ultra-efficient solar cells and even cloaking devices.
March 13, 2009 Read more
Novel electrochemical method for locating microscale objects as they move through a liquid
Researchers were able to use an array of microelectrodes to follow the two-dimensional motion of a tiny, individual basalt sphere in space and time.
March 13, 2009 Read more
EU project to develop nanomaterials for more efficient solar cells
A new EU-funded project is turning to nanotechnology in a bid to dramatically ramp up the efficiency of solar cells.
March 13, 2009 Read more
Quantum dots and nanomaterials: Ingredients for better lighting and more reliable power
Imagine flexible lighting devices manufactured by using printing techniques. Imagine solar power sources equally as reliable and as portable as any conventional power source.
March 13, 2009 Read more
The greening of propane
The process to turn propane into industrially necessary propylene has been expensive and environmentally unfriendly. That was until scientists at U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory devised a greener way to take this important step in chemical catalysis.
March 13, 2009 Read more
Ion beam experiments for materials
Three new experimental units for conducting materials research are being inaugurated today at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt.
March 13, 2009 Read more
Lessons from a frustrated magnet
Scientists in Japan and Korea have developed a quantum theory that explains how temperature and quantum fluctuations - a direct consequence of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle - affect the properties of materials called multiferroics.
March 12, 2009 Read more
'Self-correcting' gates advance quantum computing
Two Dartmouth researchers have found a way to develop more robust 'quantum gates', which are the elementary building blocks of quantum circuits.
March 12, 2009 Read more
Theory makes predictions about latest high-temp superconductor
An international team of physicists from the United States and China this week offered a new theory to both explain and predict the complex quantum behavior of a new class of high-temperature superconductors.
March 12, 2009 Read more
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