A Charles Godfrey Binder professor of engineering science and mechanics at Penn State, Akhlesh Lakhtakia, collaborated with engineers from the National Taipei University of Technology to formulate a technique for manufacturing materials that are periodically multilayered similar to the lens in the peacock mantis shrimp’s eye.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
28 Jun 2011
Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Berkeley Lab, the University of California have developed a nanoscale method for testing irradiated substances that offer macroscale materials - strength characteristics.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
28 Jun 2011
Cambridge NanoTech has introduced the capability of self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) in an attempt to upgrade Savannah Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) systems. SAMs are helpful in various fields such as electronics, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), biology, electrochemistry, nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS), and household products.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
28 Jun 2011
Nature Photonics published a paper about a new type of solar cell that uses cost-effective coatings to effectively produce electricity from sun rays. The U of T engineering research team headed by Professor Ted Sargent, electrical and computer engineering professor, University of Toronto, discovered the first effective tandem solar cell using colloidal quantum dots (CQD).
By Dr. Cameron Chai
28 Jun 2011
FutureChemistry, a world leading supplier in innovative instruments for chemical laboratories, launches FlowStart Evo. This product is an important evolution from FlowStart, which has made microreactor technology accessi...
WITec’s True Surface Microscopy has been selected as a winner of the prestigious 2011 R&D 100 Award. It honors the WITec innovation as one of the 100 most technologically significant developments of the year.
Malvern Panalytical is a major sponsor for UK Colloids 2011, a new international colloid and surface science symposium that takes place in London, UK, from 4-6 July.
Biochemists will take part in the 35th Steenbock Symposium at UW Madison from June 26-28 to talk about the advancements in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, which enables scientists to study vital structural data about biological molecules.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
27 Jun 2011
The assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering at Rensselaer, Cynthia Collins, is conducting a series of experiments known as Micro-2A that will be on board the NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
27 Jun 2011
A team of researchers from the Helmholtz Institute Mainz (HIM) and the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) along with their colleagues from Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg and GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research, Darmstadt, measured the magnetic properties of a single proton. For the first time, they observed spin quantum-jumps of a trapped proton.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
27 Jun 2011
3M has opened an application laboratory in Yangmei, Taiwan, for temporary wafer bonding of 200 and 300 mm wafers.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
27 Jun 2011
California Science & Engineering (CALSEC) reported at the Seventh International Conference on Biological Physics that the bombardment of DNA nucleotides with femto-neutrons has resulted in novel findings about the interaction between subatomic particles and DNA nanoparticles which are million times larger.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
27 Jun 2011
Researchers have been closely studying the properties of monolayer graphene that can be produced from high-volume graphite. It is possible to manufacture graphene sheets of few layers thick with the same extraction methods.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
27 Jun 2011
Stanford researchers have designed an underwater microphone with high-sensitivity that can capture a wide range of sounds in the ocean.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
27 Jun 2011
Physicists at the University of Pennsylvania have demonstrated that the combined "on" time of a collection of semiconductor nanorods has increased significantly, thus providing information about its strange blinking characteristics.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
27 Jun 2011