Eighteen major research and industrial partners have teamed up in a European Union (EU) Fast Track project to develop high-efficiency thin-film silicon solar modules using nanotechnology.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
3 Apr 2012
Bruker Nano Surfaces Division (Tucson, AZ) has shipped 100 DektakXT™ Stylus Surface Profiling System since the product launched last April.
Dr. Debra Rolison, a scientist at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), has been felicitated with two awards for advancements in the field of chemistry.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
2 Apr 2012
NanoString Technologies will introduce three new kits for the nCounter Analysis System, a completely automated, simple-workflow, multi-purpose digital detection and counting system, at the American Association of Cancer Research Annual Meeting to be conducted from March 31, to April 4, 2012, in Chicago, Illinois.
A research team headed by Professor Hoi-Kwong Lo from the University of Toronto has discovered a new quantum encryption technique to provide protection against the most advanced hackers.
A research team from the Imperial College London has shown that a honeycomb pattern composed of nano-sized magnets in spin ice triggers competition between adjoining magnets, and drastically lessens the issues caused by the interactions between magnetic domains in data storage devices.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
2 Apr 2012
A research team headed by physicists from the University of Arizona has discovered that boron nitride, a non-conducting material but structurally identical with graphene, can control the flow of electrons in graphene.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
2 Apr 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)’s multidisciplinary research group, the Center for Polymer Microfabrication is designing production processes for microfluidics from the scratch in order to mass produce microfluidic devices.
A research team, comprising Vlatko Vedral, Elisabeth Rieper and Mile Gu from the National Univesity of Singapore’s Centre for Quantum Technologies together with Karoline Wiesner from the University of Bristol, has identified a new way wherein the performance of quantum physics-based computers can surpass that of classical computers.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
31 Mar 2012
At the American Chemical Society’s 243rd National Meeting & Exposition a research team led by David H. Gracias from the Johns Hopkins University has reported about a research on ‘backpacking’ bacteria that can serve as a carrier to deliver nano-medicine across the body.
GenMark Diagnostics has inked a non-exclusive licensing deal with PerkinElmer for its microfluidics patent portfolio. Financial terms of the deal were not revealed.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
31 Mar 2012
Researchers, Professor Dek Woolfson, Dr Franziska Thomas and Dr David Fermin, from the University of Bristol’s School of Chemistry have received a Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant worth £140,000.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
31 Mar 2012
A team of scientists from different research organizations has conducted a first-of-its-kind direct study on two-dimensional fermion liquids utilizing inelastic neutron scattering technique at the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), and identified a new class of very-short wave-length density wave in these liquids.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
31 Mar 2012
Decision Resources, a research and consultative firm for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, offers analysis on the latest developments in the non-small-cell lung cancer drug market.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
30 Mar 2012
Yole Développement has released a new report titled ‘Flow Chemistry Technologies - Microtechnologies for Chemical Process Intensification.’
By Dr. Cameron Chai
30 Mar 2012