Research and Markets has included a new research report titled ‘Global Market for Nano Silver’ to its database.
The development of a new copolymer, combining sugar-based with oil-based macromolecules, makes it possible to design ultra-thin films capable of self-organization on a scale of just 5 nm. This opens up new horizons for increasing the capacity of hard discs and the speed of microprocessors.
MiniFAB will provide a seminar on designing, prototyping, developing, and manufacturing polymer microfluidic devices at the Broad Institute on Monday, May 14, 2012.
A research team from the Brookhaven National Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy has created a new electrocatalyst using low-cost materials for the production of clean hydrogen gas from water.
A research team led by Professor Jackie Y. Ying from the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) has devised a miniaturized biological assay or biochip dubbed as the Droplet Array technology to explore the impact of anti-cancer medicines on cancer stem cells (CSCs).
Researchers at three Fraunhofer Institutes have devised key components for EUV lithography.
Reportlinker.com has announced the addition of a new report titled ‘Electrochemical Double Layer Capacitors: Supercapacitors 2013-2023’ to its offering.
By G.P. Thomas
11 May 2012
Integrated Device Technology (IDT) has unveiled first-of-its-kind CrystalFree piezoelectric MEMS (pMEMS) LVDS / LVPECL oscillators for use in superior-performance industrial, cloud, consumer, and communication applications.
By Will Soutter
11 May 2012
In a paper, ‘Anomalous Nuclear Quantum Effects in Ice,’ reported in the Physical Review Letters journal, a team of scientists from the Stony Brook University Department of Physics & Astronomy and the Department of Condensed Matter Physics at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) has for the first time explained about a mystifying water anomaly in ice.
By Will Soutter
11 May 2012
Nanoco Group, which develops and produces nanomaterials such as cadmium-free quantum dots, has announced the successful production of a batch of 1 kg green cadmium-free quantum dots for a key company based in Japan, generating $2million in revenues for Nanoco.
By Will Soutter
11 May 2012
Light-emitting diodes at infrared wavelengths are the magic behind such things as night vision and optical communications, including the fiber-optic backbone of the internet. Researchers at Cornell University have advanc...
PTC Alliance’s subsidiary, Enduro Industries has extended its license exclusivity term for Nanovate CoP, a nanocrystalline cobalt electroplating process developed by Integran Technologies, in the US market for fluid power by five more years.
Janelle Tam, a student from the Waterloo Collegiate Institute, has won the first prize in the 2012 Sanofi BioGENEius Challenge Canada for her discovery of a disease-fighting, anti-oxidant compound utilizing nano-crystalline cellulose (NCC).
By Will Soutter
10 May 2012
A team of researchers headed by Martin Wegener, a Professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), has created a prototype of a pentamode metamaterial, a stable crystalline metafluid, paving the way to realize several 3D transformation acoustics ideas such as novel loudspeaker concepts, acoustic prisms and inaudibility cloaks.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
10 May 2012
A research team from the University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering has developed a cooling technique using graphene multilayers to remove heat from gallium nitride, a semiconductor material utilized in various applications ranging from electric cars to traffic lights.