Research and Markets has included a new research report titled ‘Thin-Film and Printed Battery Markets - 2012’ to its catalogue.
Graphene Laboratories, Inc. has made several new developments this summer, demonstrating their continued success in the commercialization of graphene materials. Most notably, their production capabilities are up with exp...
A research group of John Fourkas, a Chemistry Professor from the University of Maryland, has created innovative materials and nanofabrication techniques to produce miniaturized components essential for sensors, medical diagnostics and other applications.
By Will Soutter
16 Jul 2012
Researchers at North Carolina State University, led by assistant professor, Dr. Yong Zhu, have employed silver nanowires to produce elastic conductors with high conductivity.
NanoSteel, the provider of nano-structured steel designs, has bagged the R&D 100 Award for the development of a new nano-structured powder metal alloy for use in large-scale manufacture of industrial components. This award is the fifth such R&D award for NanoSteel. Dubbed as the “Oscars of Innovation”, The R&D 100 Awards is into its 50th year of recognizing and honoring the most technologically noteworthy products developed and launched in a given year.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
16 Jul 2012
Researchers at Rice University have carried out a study to highlight the similarities in plasmonics and polymer behavior that could pave the way for building smaller and better computing systems and antennae.
By Will Soutter
16 Jul 2012
A research team comprising Drs. Takaaki Mano, Yoshiki Sakuma and Masafumi Jo from the Photonic Materials Unit of the National Institute for Materials Science is involved in the development of a sophisticated self-assembling technology known as droplet epitaxy for semiconductor quantum dots.
The Paris-Est Créteil University in France hosted the Conference on Multiphase Polymers and Polymer Composites Systems: Macro to Nano Scales on June 7-10, 2011.
By Will Soutter
16 Jul 2012
Luminescent Technologies, a computational metrology and inspection solution provider for the semiconductor manufacturing industry, has reported that its extreme ultraviolet (EUV) defect printability simulator (DPS) software has been adopted for EUVL Infrastructure Development Center (EIDEC)'s EUV mask development program.
By Will Soutter
13 Jul 2012
Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) and Synopsys have reported that a wide range of Synopsys DesignWare IP is available for SMIC 40-nm low-leakage (40LL) process technology.
By Will Soutter
13 Jul 2012
Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology have synthesized blue-fluorescent molecular nanocapsules through simple mixing of bent organic blocks and eco-friendly green metal ions.
By Will Soutter
13 Jul 2012
Researchers at Corporación Tecnológica Tecnalia have published a study in the prestigious science magazine, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, which reveals the loss of nanomaterials caused by water on surface treatments employed in numerous consumption and construction products.
A multi-institute research team has developed a hybrid porous scaffold with improved osteoinductivity.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
13 Jul 2012
A Harvard University-led engineering team has developed a materials platform dubbed as self-regulated mechano-chemical adaptively reconfigurable tunable system (SMARTS) that can be customized to maintain any preferred parameter such as pressure, wetness, temperature, and pH by responding to the changes in environment through a compensatory chemical feedback.
By Will Soutter
13 Jul 2012
The Air Force Office of Scientific Research has awarded a US $2.9 million grant to a multidisciplinary team of researchers led by Professor Paras Prasad from the University at Buffalo (UB) to develop nanomaterials that react to external stimuli of light and heat by changing the shape of their internal structure.
By Will Soutter
13 Jul 2012