At the CeBIT exposition, Initiative Mittelstand granted the Innovation Prize IT 2012 award to Swiss Nano-Cube, a web platform, in the e-learning category.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
21 Apr 2012
MEMSCAP, a company specializing in MEMS-based solutions, announced that the company’s high voltage electrostatic MEMS variable optical attenuator has successfully completed Telcordia qualification by meeting all mechanical, environmental and operational stress tests described in GR-1221 and GR-1209 standards for passive optical components.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
21 Apr 2012
Georgia Tech professor Alex Kuzmich and graduate student Yaroslav Dudin have devised a new faster and more-efficient technique based on a phenomenon called Rydberg blockade to generate single photons that can be utilized to explore the disorder and dynamics in specific physical systems and in optical quantum information processing.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
21 Apr 2012
A research team led by Efstathios Karathanasis from the Case Western Reserve University has developed a novel nanochain targeted delivery system that delivers an anti-cancer medicine into hard-to-reach areas of tumor.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
20 Apr 2012
An international team of scientists from the French National Center for Scientific Research and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany has developed a new prototype lens using graphene.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
20 Apr 2012
A new full field transmission X-ray microscope (TXM), developed and installed at the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) of Brookhaven National Laboratory (Brookhaven Lab), enables the Brookhaven Lab researchers to rapidly capture and integrate thousands of 2D images to create digital 3D constructs with high accuracy.
Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) researchers have used DNA origami to improve the capabilities of solid-state nanopores. They have combined new capabilities for sensing of single-molecules.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
20 Apr 2012
Agilent Technologies has unveiled a quaternary UHPLC system called the Agilent 1290 Infinity Quaternary LC system. According to the company, it is the first UHPLC system that delivers a performance of a binary-pump in terms of precision and accuracy.
Over 50 years ago, Hendrik Casimir, a Dutch theoretical physicist, determined that two parallel mirrors would attract each other when placed in a vacuum. The energy of virtual particles that flit into and out of existence generates this enigmatic force, as explained by quantum theory.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
20 Apr 2012
A team of researchers from the NEC Smart Energy Research Laboratories and RIKEN Advanced Science Institute has experimentally demonstrated the existence of a subtle phenomenon known as coherent quantum phase slip (CQPS) for the first time using ‘phase-slip qubit,’ a new kind of qubit developed by the team.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
20 Apr 2012
A team of researchers led by Professor Peyman Givi from the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is involved in the development of quantum-computing algorithms to simulate turbulent combustion in a better way for aerospace applications.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
20 Apr 2012
Industrial Nanotech’s patented mold resistant and thermal insulation coating called Nansulate Energy Protect has been chosen by BUILDINGS magazine as a top 2012 Money-Saving Product.
NanoSight, leading manufacturers of unique nanoparticle characterization technology, reports on the work of Professor Tuan Vo-Dinh's group at Duke University where they apply Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis (NTA) to characterize metal nanoparticle construct materials for use in biosensing, imaging and cancer therapy.
A research team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has helped an international research team to verify the stability of an ultrathin membrane using near-edge X-ray absorption fine-structure spectroscopy (NEXAFS).
A team of researchers from the Tsinghua University and Rice University has demonstrated that a combination of carbon nanotube forests and a sulfide-based electrolyte can be used to fabricate high-efficient dye-sensitized solar cells (DSC) at a cost lower than that of conventional silicon-based solar cells.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
19 Apr 2012