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.
A research team led by Sandra Rosenthal from the Vanderbilt University has discovered a way to improve white-light quantum dots’ fluorescent efficiency up to 45%, a more than 10-fold increase from an initial level of 3%.
By Will Soutter
10 May 2012
Research and Markets has included a new report titled ‘Nanotechnology for Drug Delivery: Global Market for Nanocrystals’ to its database.
Si-Ware Systems, a company specializing in MEMS and IC-based solutions, has introduced an inertial sensor development platform called the SWS61111 that enables easy and rapid interfacing of most of the capacitive MEMS devices to superior performance electronics.
By Will Soutter
10 May 2012
As part of its continuing effort to offer customers access to world-class solutions, SVTC Technologies, the premier innovation partner for accelerating nanotechnology innovation, announced today it has adopted XperiDesk&...
MiniFAB will provide a seminar on advances in polymer microfluidic devices for sample preparation, handling and diagnostics for point- of-care, laboratory, and in-field applications. The seminar is hosted by The Jackson Laboratory on Friday, May 11, 2012.
A key aerospace components manufacturer has placed a multi-million dollar order with CVD Equipment to design a customized chemical vapor deposition system scalable solution to manufacture next-generation composite products.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
9 May 2012
Silvija Gradeèak, who serves as the Thomas Lord Assistant Professor in Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has won the 2012 Nano Letters Young Investigator Lectureship award.
By G.P. Thomas
9 May 2012
According to cell toxicity studies conducted by Professor Yinfa Ma and graduate student Qingbo Yang from the Missouri University of Science and Technology, zinc oxide nanoparticles, a common ingredient used in sunscreens, may increase risk of skin cancer.
By Will Soutter
9 May 2012