The Pittcon 2012 Program Committee is pleased to announce the recipients of 11 prestigious awards honoring scientists who have made outstanding contributions to analytical chemistry and applied spectroscopy.
Tobias J. Osborne, who serves as a Professor of theoretical physics at the Leibniz Universitat Hannover’s Institute for Theoretical Physics and the Cluster of Excellence, Centre for Quantum Engineering and Space-Time Research (QUEST), has received a €1.34 million grant for the coming five years from the European Research Council (ERC) for his project titled ‘Quantum Field Theory, the Variational Principle, and Continuous Matrix Product States’.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
13 Dec 2011
A research team led by Dr. Woo Lee, who serves at Stevens Institute of Technology’s Schaefer School of Engineering and Science at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science’s George Meade Bond Professor, has exhibited its novel graphene-based method for inkjet printing of energy storage devices, paving the way for the advancement of printed electronics.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
13 Dec 2011
A research team at the Centre for Quantum Photonics of the University of Bristol has developed a versatile optical chip that produces, measures, and controls two important quantum phenomena, mixture and entanglement, paving the way for developing quantum computers.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
13 Dec 2011
Yuerui Lu, a student of Amit Lal, Cornell University’s Professor of electrical and computer engineering, has developed a photonic crystal nanowire array-based biosensor, which is capable of performing low-cost, highly sensitive and rapid test for detecting disease markers and similar molecules at ultra-low concentrations, paving the way to identify diseases at an early stage.
According to a joint research carried out by GLOBALFOUNDRIES, ARM. IBM, STMicroelectronics and other major semiconductors firms for producing 28 nm chips using fully depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) process, planar semiconductor devices built on FD-SOI substrates are capable of delivering significant performance and power benefits when compared to CMOS devices fabricated on bulk-silicon substrates.
MULT-EU-SIM aims to gather the simulation research community in Europe to establish a joint vision of multiscale modelling and simulation. This will enable to prepare Europe to play a leading role in the opening era of c...
In the journal Angewandte Chemie, Eugene R. Zubarev and his team at Rice University in Houston (Texas, USA) have now introduced a new pretreatment process for gold nanorods that could accelerate their use in medical applications.
Reflecting on the growing trend toward product miniaturisation across an increasing number of manufacturing sectors, MM LIVE, MEMS LIVE and NANO LIVE have rapidly grown to become one of Europe’s largest annual exhibitions and conferences to focus on micro, precision, nano and MEMS manufacturing technologies.
FibeRio Technology Corporation announced a shipment today of its new continuous nanofiber production system, the Cyclone FE 1.1, to Kertak Nanotechnology, a leading manufacturer of ceramic nanofibers.
A research team at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) of the U.S. Department of Energy has developed a novel method for removing nanocrytals from tether-like molecules called ligands that prevent integration of nanocrystals with devices, paving the way for designing nanocrystal-based technologies for LEDs, solar fuels, smart windows, photovoltaics and energy storage.
Researchers at the Rice University and Schlumberger’s subsidiary M-I SWACO, a drilling fluid supplier based in Texas, have synthesized functionalized graphene oxide to eliminate the blockage of oil-generating holes in newly drilled oil wells.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
12 Dec 2011
Synopsys has declared that its physical verification product, IC Validator has been certified by GLOBALFOUNDRIES for 65, 40 and 28 nm physical signoff, with immediate accessibility to layout-versus-schematic and design rule check runsets to customers of GLOBALFOUNDRIES.
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, Rongchao Jin and Roberto R. Gil have used nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to study the structure of gold nanoparticles, paving the way to improve the synthesis and application of the materials in drug development.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
12 Dec 2011
Fagor Automation, a subsidiary of the MONDRAGON Corporation that specialises in the manufacture of components for the general machine tools and automation sector, designs, manufactures and exports numerical control systems, position display units and high-precision encoders with nanometre-scale resolution.