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Frost + Sullivan Presents New Product Innovation Award to Thin Film Electronics

The 2010 Frost & Sullivan Global New Product Innovation Award in Printed Electronic Memories is presented to Thin Film Electronics ASA ('Thinfilm'). The company is commended for its unique non-volatile, printable, polymer-based memory products.

From Frost and Sullivan 3 Mar 2011

New Microfluidic Device Manipulates Age of T Cells to Enhance Cancer Therapy

Manipulation of cells by a new microfluidic device may help clinicians improve a promising cancer therapy that harnesses the body's own immune cells to fight such diseases as metastatic melanoma, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, chronic lymphocytic leukemia and neuroblastoma.

3 Mar 2011

MIT Proposes New Quantum Experiment to Perform Intractable Calculations

Quantum computers are computers that exploit the weird properties of matter at extremely small scales.

From Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3 Mar 2011

IEEE, ASME Journal Publishes Technical Details of Smart NanoBattery

mPhase Technologies, Inc. a leader in the development of Smart Surfaces and advanced battery technologies announced today that an article describing some of the technical aspects of the Smart NanoBattery architecture is published in the IEEE/ASME Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems.

From MyPebble 3 Mar 2011

Penn Researchers Demonstrate New Method to Create High-Quality Graphene

New research from the University of Pennsylvania demonstrates a more consistent and cost-effective method for making graphene, the atomic-scale material that has promising applications in a variety of fields, and was the subject of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics.

3 Mar 2011

CNSE and Downstate Announce New Program in Nanoscale Medical Applications

In a pioneering initiative that will prepare a new generation of research physicians to be leaders in 21st century health care, the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) of the University at Albany and SUNY...

3 Mar 2011

Discovery of New Nanoparticles to Reduce Friction in Automobile Engines

Guojun Liu has discovered a way to use nanotechnology to reduce friction in automobile engines and machines. "The technology should be useful in a wide range of machineries other than automobile engines," sa...

3 Mar 2011

Indiana Scientists Unravel Mystery Behind Main Energy Storage Molecules in Human Body

Indiana University scientists have solved a perplexing mystery regarding one of the body's main energy storage molecules, in the process shedding light on a possible route to treatment of a rare but deadly disease in teenagers.

3 Mar 2011

Sharpest Tip in Electron Microscope Achieves World Record

A very tiny, very sharp object has put Canadian researchers at the National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT) and University of Alberta into the Guinness Book of World Records. Only one atom at its end point, the ti...

From National Institute for Nanotechnology 3 Mar 2011

New Microsphere Nanoscope to Examine Living Viruses

Writing in the journal Nature Communications, the team have created a microscope which shatters the record for the smallest object the eye can see, beating the diffraction limit of light.

3 Mar 2011

New Research Shows Nanoparticle Surface Coating Has Great Influence on Immune System

Researchers have over time been able to show that medicine designed at nanoscale offers unprecedented opportunities for targeted treatment of serious diseases such as cancer. However, now research also shows that the ...

3 Mar 2011

Manchester Scientists Use Cutting Edge Techniques to Reveal Shape of Nanospring

Scientists have unravelled the shape of the protein that gives human tissues their elastic properties in what could lead to the development of new synthetic elastic polymers. University of Manchester researchers, work...

3 Mar 2011

Research Team Develops Metal Alloys That Can be Molded into Nanoscale Shapes

Imagine a material that's stronger than steel, but just as versatile as plastic, able to take on a seemingly endless variety of forms.

3 Mar 2011

New HAPS-600 Series from Synopsys Extends FPGA-Based Prototyping Capacity

Synopsys, Inc. a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced the availability of the HAPS®-600 series, the highest capacity extension of the HAPS family of FPGA-based prototyping systems.

From Synopsys, Inc. 3 Mar 2011

Scientists Design Nano-Based Artificial Protocells to Inactivate Deadly Viruses

Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Weill Cornell Medical College have designed artificial "protocells" that can lure, entrap and inactivate a class of deadly huma...

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 3 Mar 2011