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Magazine to Address the Rapidly Growing Global PV Solar Cell Manufacturing Industry

PennWell Corporation, a diversified global media and information company, announced today that it will launch Photovoltaics World magazine to address the rapidly growing global photovoltaic solar cell manufacturing industry.

20 Nov 2008

CNSE Professor Using Nanotechnology to Address Human Diseases

For some, nanotechnology is known by its applications in nanoelectronics, from PDAs to computers. But College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) professor Dr. Nathaniel Cady is using nanotechnology to address hu...

20 Nov 2008

Report on the Global Market for Nanotechnology

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "The Global Market for Nanotechnology" report to their offering. Nanotechnology continues to be a thriving area of R&D in 2008. Public funding of n...

From Research and Markets 20 Nov 2008

Applied Materials Become Associate Member of The Flexible Display Center at Arizona State University

The Flexible Display Center (FDC) at Arizona State University today announced that Applied Materials, Inc., through its Display Business Group-AKT, has become an Associate Member, joining the ranks of other world-class p...

From Applied Materials Inc. 20 Nov 2008

Scientists Created Electronics that Can Bend and Twist

Yonggang Huang, Joseph Cummings Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University's McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, and John Rogers, the Flory-Founder Chair Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, have improved their so-called “pop-up” technology to create circuits that can be twisted. Such electronics could be used in places where flat, unbending electronics would fail, like on the human body.

20 Nov 2008

FULLSPECTRUM Scientists Break Solar Cell Efficiency Record

Researchers at the Germany-based Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) announced that they have succeeded in improving the efficiency of solar cells, which are designed to convert available light into electricity.

20 Nov 2008

ORNL Team Wins Prize After Attaining the Fastest Performance Ever in Scientific Supercomputing Application

A team led by Thomas Schulthess of the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory received the prestigious 2008 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Gordon Bell Prize Thursday after attaining the fastest performance ever in a scientific supercomputing application.

From Oak Ridge National Laboratory 20 Nov 2008

NRL Scientists Learning More About How Cracks Form in Brittle Materials

The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is part of an international team of scientists that is learning more about how cracks form in brittle materials. The team used both computer modeling and experimentation to investigate...

20 Nov 2008

New Jersey Technology Council Selects mPhase as a "Company to Watch"

mPhase Technologies, Inc. (OTC BB: XDSL.OB - News) today announced that it was selected by the New Jersey Technology Council (NJTC) as a "Company to Watch" and will be honored tonight at the 2008 NJTC Awards Ga...

From MyPebble 20 Nov 2008

3-D Porous Silicon Clearing a Path for New Generation of Rechargeable Batteries

Rechargeable lithium ion batteries provide portable devices that require a lot of energy, such as mobile telephones, digital cameras, and notebook computers, with power. However, their capacity, and thus the running time...

20 Nov 2008

Revolutionizing the Way We Look at the Nano World

More than a century ago, the development of the earliest motion picture technology made what had been previously thought "magical" a reality: capturing and recreating the movement and dynamism of the world around us. A breakthrough technology based on new concepts has now accomplished a similar feat, but on an atomic scale.

20 Nov 2008

New Cancer Drug Based on the Use of Photodynamic Therapy to Treat Skin Cancer

A drug that is activated by light can be a quick, simple, and cheap treatment for tens of thousands of patients with skin cancer in Sweden alone. Researcher Leif Eriksson's team at Örebro University in Sweden ha...

20 Nov 2008

Futuristic Devices Would Likely Outperform Conventional Computers in Chemical Simulations

Quantum computers would likely outperform conventional computers in simulating chemical reactions involving more than four atoms, according to scientists at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ...

20 Nov 2008

Carbon Nanotubes Improving the Limits of Protein Array Detection

To detect cancer as early as possible, dozens of research groups are developing methods to detect trace levels of cancer-related proteins and genes in blood or other biological samples. Those efforts should get a boost thanks to new research results showing that carbon nanotubes can serve as incredibly sensitive optical labels for use in a wide variety of assay systems.

20 Nov 2008

Custom-Designed Nanoparticles Delivering Anticancer Drug Specifically to Prostate Cancer Cells

A research team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)-Harvard Center for Nanotechnology Excellence has custom-designed nanoparticles that can deliver the anticancer drug cisplatin specifically to prostate ...

20 Nov 2008