Professor Dr. David Mills and a student group from the Louisiana Tech University have presented their research work on smart nanocoatings for tissue regeneration and wound healing, nanoenabled bioinstructive scaffolds and implants, and anti-infective biomaterials at the 2012 Experimental Biology meeting held in San Diego, California.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
27 Apr 2012
A research team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a quantum simulator capable of engineering interplays between hundreds of qubits, a 10-fold increase when compared to earlier devices.
Madrid (Spain) will host the 13th edition of the Trends in Nanotechnology International Conference from the 10th until the 14th of September 2012.
This high-level scientific meeting aims to present a broad range of cu...
CRANN (Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices), the Science Foundation Ireland funded nanoscience institute based in Trinity College Dublin (TCD), today announced the addition of three new Board m...
Students at the University of Utah have won the first place in the regional CU Cleantech New Venture Challenge for their quantum dot technology. Quantum dots are tiny semiconductor nanocrystals that emit photons when excited.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
26 Apr 2012
A team of researchers from the Yale University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has developed nanopores with a radio-frequency electric field that can trap segments of biomolecules such as DNA.
target="_blank">Veeco Instruments Inc. announced today that it has trained its 500th customer engineer at its state-of-the-art China Training Center (CTC), located in Shanghai. The CTC opened in mid-2011 to ...
Angstron Materials Inc. has named Digichem Corporation, Anyang City, Korea, its distribution partner for Korea. Digichem, a management innovation enterprise, specializes in exporting chemical ingredients and intermediates for markets that include paint and coatings, adhesives, automotive, electronics, pharmaceutical, printing and packaging and film conversion.
A team of researchers from the Duke University has developed a bottom-up approach to self-assemble microscopic particles into larger crystalline structures by altering magnetic fields and concentrations of tiny particles.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
26 Apr 2012
Professor John Rarity and Dr Ruth Oulton from the University of Bristol’s Centre for Quantum Photonics have received a Future and Emerging Technologies grant worth €2 million from the European Commission and a CHIST-ERA award worth €1.1 million from national funding agencies in Europe.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
26 Apr 2012
Amendment II has announced the availability of RynoHide, a first-of-its-kind carbon nanotube compound for shrapnel and ballistic resistant products, for public consumers and the personal protection equipment industry.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
26 Apr 2012
According to Yole Developpement’s Annual Top 30 MEMS Report, Silex Microsystems has been ranked as the largest pure-play MEMS foundry in the world.
Research and Markets has included a new book titled ‘Introduction to the Physics of Nanoelectronics’ from Woodhead Publishing to its catalogue.
A team of material scientists at the Michigan Technological University has discovered that graphene can improve the conversion efficiency of next-generation photovoltaic cells.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
26 Apr 2012
Graphene has been extensively researched for its unusual mechanical, optical and electronic characteristics. Now, scientists from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have discovered another compound that exhibits most of the graphene’s properties and in certain cases displays complementary characteristics.