Australian materials company, Quickstep Holdings is collaborating in a European program to study the use of nanotechnology in enhancing the properties of composites deployed in the transportation sector.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
28 Apr 2011
The FSA has recently brought out a report on the nanotechnology applications in food and food packaging. The survey asked consumers to air their views on nanotechnology.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
28 Apr 2011
Research and Markets has recently included the ‘Nanotech: Making Photovoltaics Possible,’ report in its catalog. Photovoltaics means producing electricity from light.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
28 Apr 2011
A team of researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has discovered that semiconductor nanocrystals called quantum dots can display plasmonic properties.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
28 Apr 2011
A team of researchers led byYu Huang, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has developed a way for manufacturing nano-crystals with pre-designed shapes with surfactantsand biomolecules that attach themselves selectively to particular facets of the crystal surface.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
28 Apr 2011
Christa Schleper, head of the department of Genetics in Ecology at the University of Vienna, along with a few other colleagues, have obtained an ammonia oxidizing archaeon from soil, which is available in its pure form.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
27 Apr 2011
A team led by the Physics Professor Michael S. Fuhrer of the UMD Center for Nanophysics and Advanced Materials at University of Maryland have devised a method to monitor magnetic properties of graphene that could lead to magnetic storage and magnetic random access memory applications.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
27 Apr 2011
Magnetics researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) colored lots of eggs recently. Bunnies and children might find the eggs a bit small—in fact, too small to see without a microscope. But these "eggcentric" nanomagnets have another practical use, suggesting strategies for making future low-power computer memories.
XEI Scientific Inc, maker of the popular EVACTRON® De-Contaminator Plasma Cleaning System for electron microscopes and other vacuum chambers, announces their new SoftClean™ specimen cleaning chamber to be used with the Evactron De-Contaminator for electron microscopy.
XTI invited green Hollywood actors to the Earth Day 2011, presenting them with the Anti-Germ System: XTI Nano-Facemasks and XTI 360 Active-Shield, a nanocoating that destroys germs and VOCs indoors.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
26 Apr 2011
A University of Southern California research team has used nanotechnology to create an artificial brain. The team constructed a carbon nanotube synapse circuit, which replicated a neuron, the core of the brain.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
26 Apr 2011
Physicist Jak Chakhalian at the University of Arkansas has been conferred with the highest award bestowed on individual researchers by the Army Research Laboratory.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
26 Apr 2011
A research paper resulting from a joint venture between Tekmira Pharmaceuticals and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) has appeared in Oncogene.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
26 Apr 2011
A research team at the University of California, San Diego has developed RF MEMS metal-contact switches that could be used in medical equipment including MRIs, satellites, and electronic instrumentation including spectrum analyzers and signal sources.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
26 Apr 2011
A research team at Stanford University has created a biosensor microchip. The device could accelerate drug development processes.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
26 Apr 2011