Professor Hao Yan from the Arizona State University has been granted a research reward of US $6.25 million to be dispersed over a five-year period by the Department of Defense (DoD) under its Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) program.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
5 Jul 2012
A team of physicists led by Professor Brett Esry at the Kansas State University have identified a new quantum bound state.
By G.P. Thomas
5 Jul 2012
Pall is set to display its latest purification and filtration solutions for the semiconductor industry at the SEMICON West exposition to be held in San Francisco between July 10 and 12.
By G.P. Thomas
5 Jul 2012
An international team of researchers have borrowed from nature to develop a new class of nanoscale materials that could facilitate improvement in medical imaging.
By Will Soutter
5 Jul 2012
Harvard researchers have achieved a significant breakthrough in quantum computing that provides impetus to ongoing work in the development of a functional quantum computer.
By Will Soutter
5 Jul 2012
Present count of magnetic atoms in one bit of data recorded on a hard disk is nearly 3 million.
By Will Soutter
5 Jul 2012
Gigaphoton, a provider of lithography light sources, has declared its new extreme ultraviolet (EUV) conversion efficiency (CE) results.
By Will Soutter
5 Jul 2012
MEMS Industry Group (MIG), a trade association focusing on the advancement of MEMS systems throughout global markets, has confirmed its contribution in the content of MEMS conference track of SEMICON West and its support for display products at SEMICON West 2012, a major annual conference for the global microelectronics market.
By Will Soutter
5 Jul 2012
The Kavli Nanoscience Institute (KNI) at Caltech, USA and Oxford Instruments are extremely pleased with the bookings and interest in their joint Seminar and Workshop entitled Etch Tech 2012, taking place 16th-17th July.
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The Environmental Unit of the Tecnalia Technology Corporation, the Basque Foundation for Health Innovation and Research (BIOEF) and Fluytec, a company specialising in filtration solutions, have developed a filtration system capable of retaining 95% of nanoparticles thanks to the results of the SIFINA project.
A team of researchers from the fields of nanotechnology and dermatology has used commercial moisturizers based on a nanostructure platform to provide gene regulation technology, which shows promise in developing life-saving therapies to treat skin cancers.
By Will Soutter
4 Jul 2012
Research and Markets has included a new report from Elsevier Science and Technology, titled ‘Nanobiotechnology, Vol 4. Inorganic Nanoparticles vs Organic Nanoparticles,’ to its catalogue.
In the journal Angewandte Chemie, German scientists have now described a new method for the production of stable, conducting DNA nanowires.
About 200 billion dollars per year is the cost incurred by the shipping industry due to the marine fouling problem.
By Will Soutter
3 Jul 2012
In a paper published in the Advanced Materials journal, Xiaodong Li and Lihong Bao, researchers from the University of South Carolina, have described a technique to convert a cotton T-shirt material into an electrical power source.
By Will Soutter
2 Jul 2012