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Development of the Metal Printing Process, MPP, for Additive Manufacturing of metal products with functionally graded material composition

As a result of a multi-million Euro project, a high speed Metal Printing Process (MPP) for the production of metal products with functionally graded materials has been developed.

April 11, 2008 Read more

The European Patent Office and the European Commission announced the twelve nominees for the Inventor of the Year 2008 awards

Today, the European Patent Office (EPO) and the European Commission announced the twelve nominees for the Inventor of the Year 2008 awards. An independent and high-profile international jury has nominated twelve outstanding researchers and their inventions which have had a significant impact on our everyday lives and were patented by the EPO between 1993 and 2002.

April 10, 2008 Read more

Attraction at the atomic level

Researchers find the ties that bind electrons in high-temperature superconductivity.

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Popcorn-ball design doubles efficiency of dye-sensitized solar cells

By using a popcorn-ball design - tiny kernels clumped into much larger porous spheres - researchers at the University of Washington are able to manipulate light and more than double the efficiency of converting solar energy to electricity.

April 10, 2008 Read more

European Science Foundation conference on nanomedicine

The 2008 Nanomedicine Conference to be held in Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain on September 19-24, 2008, is the evolution of the ESF Forward Look on Nanomedicine project.

April 10, 2008 Read more

ESF-FWF conference on chemical control with electrons and photons

The precise control over chemical transformations, both in terms of 'tuning' reaction products and allowing site specific chemical control is the subject of one of the most exciting and rapidly developing areas of modern science - introducing the potential for the creation of new materials and the development of new technologies with dramatic implications for advances in such fields as nanotechnology, quantum electronics and biophysics.

April 10, 2008 Read more

UAlbany NanoCollege features clean energy and environmental technologies at NanoCareer Day

More than 300 middle- and high-school students see how nanotechnology is enabling 'New Energy, Clean Environment, Bright Future'

April 10, 2008 Read more

Sweet nanotechnology batteries

Nanotechnology could solve lithium battery charging problems

April 10, 2008 Read more

NMP Finland - nanotechnology, materials and new production

The NMP Finland Conference next week presents the cutting edge of Finnish nanotechnology, materials and new production technologies. The conference provides an opportunity to meet the leading companies and partners behind the new technologies.

April 9, 2008 Read more

Slow federal action to oversee nanotechnology leaves 'room at the bottom'

Landmark report highlights local options for oversight of cutting-edge technologies.

April 9, 2008 Read more

Memory in artificial atoms

Danish nano-physicists have made a discovery that can change the way we store data on our computers. This means that in the future we can store data much faster, and more accurate.

April 9, 2008 Read more

Carbon nanotubes made into conductive, flexible 'stained glass'

Researchers at Northwestern University have used metallic nanotubes to make thin films that are semitransparent, highly conductive, flexible and come in a variety of colors, with an appearance similar to stained glass.

April 9, 2008 Read more

Newly discovered 'superinsulators' promise to transform materials research, electronics design

Superinsulation may sound like a marketing gimmick for a drafty attic or winter coat. But it is actually a newly discovered fundamental state of matter created by scientists.

April 8, 2008 Read more

DVDs and CD-ROMs that thwart global warming

Carbon dioxide removed from smokestack emissions in order to slow global warming in the future could become a valuable raw material for the production of DVDs, beverage bottles and other products made from polycarbonate plastics, chemists are reporting.

April 8, 2008 Read more

Manufactured buckyballs don't harm microbes that clean the environment

Even large amounts of manufactured nanoparticles, also known as Buckyballs, don't faze microscopic organisms that are charged with cleaning up the environment, according to Purdue University researchers.

April 8, 2008 Read more

Making sure the wonder materials don't become the wonder pollutant

Scientists recently analyzed ten commercially made carbon nanotubes to identify the chemical byproducts of the manufacturing process and to help track them in the environment.

April 8, 2008 Read more