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Dance of Water Molecules

Using Terahertz spectroscopy, RUB-chemists recently detected the surprisingly long-ranged influence of solvated biomolecules on the "dance" of surrounding water molecules. With extensive simulations on a supercomputer, they now succeeded in describing this choreography in detail.

23 Jun 2010

Attaching Water-Soluble Polymer Layer to Nanometer-Sized Silica Spheres Improves Mobility

Porous silica can form stable and biocompatible nanometer-sized hollow spheres, or vesicles, that are suitable for transporting and delivering drugs to their targets in the body. The clinical use of silica vesicles, howe...

23 Jun 2010

Tracking Single Molecules Without Modifying Them

Scientists can detect the movements of single molecules by using fluorescent tags or by pulling them in delicate force measurements, but only for a few minutes. A new technique by Rice University researchers will allow t...

23 Jun 2010

MunEDA's WiCkeD Solution Chosen for TSMC’s 65nm RF RDK 2.0

MunEDA's tool suite WiCkeD(TM) has been validated for TSMC’s RF Reference Design Kit (RDK) 2.0 as part of the TSMC Open Innovation Platform(TM). WiCkeD covers a wide range of topic in interactive and automatic specification-driven custom circuit design, including design centering, circuit sizing for performance and yield, performance analysis, statistical circuit analysis.

23 Jun 2010

Fumed Silica Nanoparticles Help in Developing Consumer Products

A Kansas State University chemical engineer has developed and patented a chemical structure to make all-natural personal care products and purer pharmaceuticals in the laboratory. K-State's Peter Pfromm, in ...

23 Jun 2010

Portable Photovoltaics Project Focuses on Advancing Thin-Film Flexible Solar Cells

The University of Delaware Institute of Energy Conversion (IEC) is part of an industry-academic team that has been awarded $3.8 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the research and development office of the U.S. Department of Defense, to demonstrate solar cells that can stand up to battle conditions and environmental extremes.

23 Jun 2010

TLi Selects AFS Platform for Nanometer SPICE Accuracy

Berkeley Design Automation, Inc., provider of the Analog FastSPICE™ unified circuit verification platform (AFS Platform), today announced that Technology Leaders & Innovators (TLi), a leading fabless developer of display semiconductor products, has selected the AFS Platform for full-circuit verification and device noise analysis of its complex mixed-signal ICs for display applications.

23 Jun 2010

mPhase to Discuss Recently Issued U.S. Patent

mPhase Technologies, Inc. will hold a series of investor meetings in Boston tomorrow, June 23, during which CEO Ron Durando will explain the Company's strategy for monetizing its new U.S. patent.

From MyPebble 23 Jun 2010

SiOnyx Successfully Demonstrates Pixel-Scale Light Detectors

SiOnyx Inc., in collaboration with the Army Research Office (ARO), has successfully demonstrated pixel-scale detectors with room temperature Detectivity (D) exceeding 1x10(14) Jones.

23 Jun 2010

MOSIS Announces Collaboration to Provide 3D-IC Multi-Project Wafer Service

MOSIS, CMP and CMC are partnering to offer a 3D-IC Multi-Project Wafer (MPW) service based on Tezzaron Semiconductor's SuperContact technology and GLOBALFOUNDRIES' 130nm CMOS process. The first MPW run is t...

23 Jun 2010

SolRayo's ETS Potentiostat System to be Featured in IEEE Spectrum Webinar

Enable IPC Corporation's (PINKSHEETS: EIPC) subsidiary, SolRayo, Inc., today announced that on June 24th at 2:00 pm Eastern, National Instruments Senior Product Manager for Clean Energy Technology, Brian MacCleery, ...

23 Jun 2010

Cresset Launches New Molecular Fields Visualizer

Cresset is delighted to announce the release of FieldView, its powerful new molecular Fields visualizer. FieldView is a molecular viewer/editor designed to create, modify, view and compare molecules along with their...

23 Jun 2010

Ultra-Cold Quantum Gas Behaves Coherently at Zero Gravity

A sensitive measuring device must not be dropped - because this usually destroys the precision of the instrument.

23 Jun 2010

BC5 Material Properties Can be Used to Design New Nano-Electromechanical System

What could be better than diamond when it comes to a superhard material for electronics under extreme thermal and pressure conditions? Quite possibly BC5, a diamond-like material with an extremely high boron content...

23 Jun 2010

Scientists Create First Rewritable Memory Device Using Liquid Crystal

As cell phones and computers continue to shrink, many companies are seeking better ways to store hundreds of gigabytes of data in small, low-power devices.

23 Jun 2010