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Control Over Material Properties using Nanotechnology Would Reduce Amount of Platinum Needed in Catalytic Converter

The toxic byproducts made when a car’s engine burns fuel are funneled into the catalytic converter, where chemical reactions turn them into much less toxic substances like water and carbon dioxide.

27 Sep 2010

Nanotechnology Corporation to Collaborate with EDB and 360ip

The Russian Corporation of Nanotechnology (RUSNANO), Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) and 360ip, an international intellectual property investment and fund management firm headquartered in Singapore, announced ...

27 Sep 2010

Hosokawa Micron Launches New Alpine Air Jet Sieve

Hosokawa Micron Ltd announce the launch of a new Alpine Air jet Sieve e200 LS, this new version of an established industry standard, for particle quality control by dry sieving, now features additional functions includin...

27 Sep 2010

Scientists Develop New Technique to Isolate and Capture Fast-Moving Neutral Atom

In a major physics breakthrough, University of Otago scientists in New Zealand have developed a technique to consistently isolate and capture a fast-moving neutral atom -- and have also seen and photographed this atom for the first time.

27 Sep 2010

Researchers Develop Reversible Adhesion Method to Print Electronics on Difficult Surfaces

Geckos are masters at sticking to surfaces of all kinds and easily unsticking themselves, too. Inspired by these lizards, a team of engineers has developed a reversible adhesion method for printing electronics on a va...

27 Sep 2010

Hebrew Researchers Discover New Type of Nanoparticle Resembling Six-Pointed Star of David

A new type of nanoparticle resembling the six-pointed Star of David (Magen David) that is the symbol on the flag of Israel has been discovered by researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

27 Sep 2010

UA Physicists Discover New Way to Turn Waste Heat into Electricity

UA physicists have discovered a new way of harvesting waste heat and turning it into electrical power.

27 Sep 2010

Celebration of 25th Anniversary of Nanotechnology Research at Rice University

If a gathering for 800 could ever be considered "nano," this would be the one. Next month Rice University's Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology will kick off its Week of Nano ...

27 Sep 2010

Rice Researchers Develop New Nano Antenna that Captures Light

Everybody who's ever used a TV, radio or cell phone knows what an antenna does: It captures the aerial signals that make those devices practical. A lab at Rice University has built an antenna that captures light i...

27 Sep 2010

New Nano-Based Approach Provides Controlled and Sustained Drug Delivery

The mutation in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene results in CF. The most common mutation, DeltaF508-CFTR, is a temperature-sensitive, trafficking mutant with reduced chloride transpo...

27 Sep 2010

Caliopa to Develop Optical Transceivers for Data and Telecommunications Markets

Silicon photonics allows for small, highly integrated & low power optical transceivers for data and telecommunication. Ghent University (UGent) and imec today announced the creation of Caliopa, a spin-off from the...

27 Sep 2010

Researchers Make Advancements in Quantum Information Systems

Using optically dense, ultra-cold clouds of rubidium atoms, researchers have made advances in three key elements needed for quantum information systems – including a technique for converting photons carrying quantum data to wavelengths that can be transmitted long distances on optical fiber telecom networks.

27 Sep 2010

Protein Nanopore Enables DNA Strand Sequencing

Research published this week in Nature Nanotechnology shows a new method of enzyme-controlled movement of a single strand of DNA through a protein nanopore. The paper, by researchers at the University of California S...

27 Sep 2010

Researchers Use Water-Based Solar Devices to Produce Electricity

A team led by a North Carolina State University researcher has shown that water-gel-based solar devices – "artificial leaves" – can act like solar cells to produce electricity. The findings prove...

From North Carolina State University 27 Sep 2010

Organometallic Fuel Cell Converts Renewable Alcohols into Energy and Chemicals

The concept of converting renewable raw materials so cleverly that the same process simultaneously produces both energy and industrially desirable chemicals has been high on the wish-list for those who seek environmentally friendly and resource-saving chemistry.

24 Sep 2010