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Australian National Nanotechnology Strategy annual report released

Senator Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research today released the annual report for the Australian National Nanotechnology Strategy.

January 30, 2009 Read more

Canada commits $50 million to quantum computing center

The federal government of Canada officially announced the 2009 budget plan and allocated a $50 million grant to the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) for scientific research and groundbreaking experiments.

January 29, 2009 Read more

Water lilies inspire graphene film flexible electronics

Putting graphene sheets onto water surface reminded researchers of Monet's Water Lilies paintings.

January 29, 2009 Read more

Discovery of ionic elemental crystal against chemical intuition

The new structure can be viewed as a NaCl-type structure, with anionic and cationic positions occupied by two different clusters of boron atoms (B12 and B2).

January 29, 2009 Read more

New Purdue fund ready to accept applications to help move innovations to the marketplace

Individuals and startup companies now have another avenue to move their Purdue innovations to the marketplace through a new fund established by the Purdue Research Foundation and Purdue University.

January 29, 2009 Read more

Superflat nanomagnets show new approach for high-density magnetic data storage

Using a highly focused ion beam, i.e. fast charged atoms, researchers have irradiated an iron-aluminum alloy in such a way that only the treated zones became ferromagnetic.

January 29, 2009 Read more

Higher-quality coatings through 'runaway' self-sputtering

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have now developed a powerful new kind of sputter process that can deposit high-quality metal films in complex, three-dimensional nanoscale patterns at a rate that by one important measure is orders of magnitude greater than typical systems

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Nanomagnetic fingerprints enable breakthrough for next-generation information storage media

Researchers have developed a technique to capture the magnetic "fingerprints" of certain nanostructures - even when they are buried within the boards and junctions of an electronic device.

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Conducting domain walls could be the ultimate feature for future nanoelectronics

The logic and memory functions of future electronic devices could shrink dramatically - to one or two nanometers instead of the many tens of nanometers that characterize today?s most advanced elements - if a way can be found to control domain walls, the ultrathin transition zones that separate regions of a material having different magnetic, electric, or other properties.

January 28, 2009 Read more

Nanotechnology fine print

Stanford researchers have reclaimed bragging rights for creating the world's smallest writing, a distinction the university first gained in 1985 and lost in 1990.

January 28, 2009 Read more

Element of split personality - new superhard phase of boron found

Scientists have found the first case of an ionic crystal consisting of just one chemical element - boron.

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Nanoparticles that form in peeling Scotch Tape produce X-rays

Accumulated tribocharging in peeling tape by EM emission from nanoparticles is proposed because of the non-uniform nanosecond x-ray bursts observed in peeling Scotch tape.

January 28, 2009 Read more

Scientists create working artificial nerve networks

In the future, the interface between brain and artificial system might be based on nerve cells grown for that purpose.

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Physicists discover surprising variation in superconductors at atomic scale

MIT physicists have discovered that several high-temperature superconductors display patchwork quilt-like variations at the atomic scale, a surprising finding that could help scientists understand a new class of unconventional materials.

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Canada plans to release world's first mandatory national nanotechnology regulation

The Canadian government reportedly is planning to release in February the world's first national regulation requiring companies to detail their use of engineered nanomaterials, according to environmental officials.

January 28, 2009 Read more

Quantum dots may be toxic to cells, environment under certain conditions

Researchers in Texas are reporting that quantum dots - a product of the revolution in nanotechnology increasingly used in electronics, solar cells, and medical imaging devices - may be toxic to cells under acidic or alkaline conditions.

January 28, 2009 Read more