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ONR's Lectures Feature Brazilian Investment in Nanotechnology and Other Fields

Brazil's efforts to increase government investment in science and technology, as well expand its global presence, were the focus of the third Office of Naval Research (ONR)-sponsored International Lecture Series held...

25 Oct 2010

Development of Nanoscale Thin Film Using Oblique Angle Deposition

In nature, textured surfaces provide some plants the ability to trap insects and pollen, certain insects the ability to walk on water, and the gecko the ability to climb walls. Being able to mimic these features at a lar...

25 Oct 2010

Research on How Chemical Nanoparticles Affect Marine Ecosystems

While swimmers and boaters along any shore consider the slimy green film that coats everything from rocks to docks as a nuisance, University of New Haven (UNH) chemical engineering student Nicole Reardon and Assistant Pr...

25 Oct 2010

Researchers Create New Synthetic Bone Substitute

With a failure rate as high as 50 percent, bone tissue grafts pose a significant obstacle to orthopedic surgeons attempting to repair complex fractures or large areas of bone loss, such as those often caused by trauma an...

25 Oct 2010

Study on Fractal Invisibility Cloak

With the 14 October passing of fractal geometry founder Benoit Mandelbrot, the world’s loss of a great mind has also brought up the question “what good are fractals anyway?” Fractals, intricate shap...

25 Oct 2010

Rice University’s Green Carbon Center to Incorporate Knowledge of Nanotechnology Experts

Rice University has created a Green Carbon Center to bring the benefits offered by oil, gas, coal, wind, solar, geothermal, biomass and other energy sources together in a way that will not only help ensure the world'...

25 Oct 2010

Micro-Scale System Producing Thin Beam of Spatially Coherent X-Rays

Producing tightly focused beams of high energy X-rays, to examine everything from molecular structures to the integrity of aircraft wings, could become simpler and cheaper according to new research. Today, in Nature ...

25 Oct 2010

Fostering European Semiconductor Equipment Industry in Global Market

The joint European project SEAL (Semiconductor Equipment Assessment Leveraging Innovation), dedicated to foster the European semiconductor equipment industry in a global market has been successfully started. The objec...

25 Oct 2010

XsunX Achieves Over 14% Efficiency in CIGS-Based Thin-Film Solar Cells

XsunX, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: XSNX), the developer of advanced, thin-film photovoltaic (TFPV) solar cell technologies and manufacturing processes, today announced the successful fabrication of cells based upon the Com...

25 Oct 2010

Nanocyl's New Range of Carbon Nanotube Masterbatches to Go on Show at K 2010

Nanocyl, world leader in Carbon Nanotubes manufacturing and commercialization, announced today that it will showcase its new range of Carbon Nanotubes masterbatches at the upcoming K Show 2010, held in Düsseldorf fr...

From NANOCYL SA 24 Oct 2010

Teaching Nanotechnology In Virtual World

On Mondays at 10 a.m. this fall semester, graduate students in the Nanomedicine in Healthcare course at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) log into an online virtual world known as Second Life, activate their computer-generated personae or avatars and head off to class.

22 Oct 2010

Detecting and Treating Tumors with the Help of Gold Particles

Researchers at the MIRA Institute for Biomedical Technology and Technical Medicine, University of Twente, The Netherlands, are developing a method of detecting and treating tumors with the help of gold particles with dimensions measure in mere nanometres.

22 Oct 2010

Making Tough, Resilient Materials Out of Simple Components

Nature has one very big advantage over any human research team: plenty of time. Billions of years, in fact. And over all that time, it has produced some truly amazing materials — using weak building blocks that human engineers have not yet figured out how to use for high-tech applications, and with many properties that humans have yet to find ways to duplicate.

22 Oct 2010

LayTec Named One of 50 Fastest Growing Technology Companies in Germany Second Time in a Row

At the Deloitte‘s Technology Fast 50 award ceremony in Berlin on October 20, 2010 LayTec was awarded for the second time in a row as one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Germany. The nomination...

From LayTec GmbH 22 Oct 2010

K-State Professor's Graphene Research Shares Connection With Nobel Laureates

When two scientists were recently awarded the Nobel Prize for physics for their work with graphene, a Kansas State University professor was thrilled with the recognition of the new two-dimensional material. Vikas Berr...

22 Oct 2010