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Nanomaterials - Securing the Future with Lessons from the Past

Nanotechnology has come to symbolize the next industrial revolution in America. The opportunities to reduce the scale of products, to make materials lighter and stronger, and to design machines that perform useful functions on the micrometer and smaller scale seem endless.

15 Nov 2009

Electronics With Single Molecules

Single molecule electronics is a research field focusing on the study of electron transfer through single molecules. One of the long-term goals is to develop devices with functional units defined by the single molecule.

15 Nov 2009

Engineering of Nanomembranes for Emerging Applications

Nanoscience and nanotechnology is recognized as the key strategy to improve conventional and develop new membrane technologies by exploring novel nanomaterials and nano-scale processes.

4 Nov 2009

Polyelectrolyte Films - Versatile Approach to Generate Well-Controlled Environments for Tissue Engineering Applications

One of the challenges in tissue engineering applications is to preserve cells normal physical activities on synthetic scaffolds and maintain tissue-specific function.

4 Nov 2009

Soft Lithography Enhances Biological Cells Imaging

The development of microarrays for analysis and manipulation of cells or viruses has attracted considerable interest from both researchers and biomedical related industry.

4 Nov 2009

Putting Plasma to Work - INL Scientist Using Plasma to Mass-Produce Nanoparticles

Plasma is like a gas, but many of its atoms have been stripped of an electron or two. These positively charged atoms swim about in a crackling-hot sea of negatively charged loose electrons, making plasmas great electrical conductors.

26 Oct 2009

Fabrication of Organic Photovoltaic Devices

The next generation of solar cells will be light, flexible, attractive and most importantly, cheap, because they will be made from organic (plastic) materials. Their flexible lightweight properties will enable them to be deployed over a wide range of new applications.

25 Oct 2009