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Researcher Invents "Fuzzy Fiber" to Allow Composites to be More than Strong Materials

A $3 million Ohio Third Frontier award to the University of Dayton Research Institute will fund the scale-up and production of a "game-changing" new nanomaterial that will allow composites to multitask.

31 May 2010

New Self-Assembly Method for Controlled Assembly of Nanoparticles

Cylindrical structures such as fibres or filaments with nanoscale dimensions are rapidly attracting interest for use in a variety of potentially important applications - the controlled delivery of drugs to the body, for instance.

31 May 2010

FUJIFILM Unveils New Silicon MEMS-Based Printheads

FUJIFILM Dimatix Inc. introduced today its new D-128/1 DPN, a 1 pL drop volume printhead and companion D-128/10 DPN, a 10 pL model, for use with the Fujifilm Dimatix DMP-3000 printer, at the Large-area, Organic & Printed Electronics Convention (LOPE-C) here.

31 May 2010

Researchers Study Carbon Nanotube Application to Build Electronic Components

The silicon transistors in your computer may be replaced in ten years by transistors based on carbon nanotubes. This is what scientists at the University of Gothenburg are hoping – they have developed a method to co...

31 May 2010

Researchers Demonstrate Feasibility of Logic Operations on Single Nanoparticle

New perspectives are opening up in bio-engineering thanks to research jointly carried out by teams of chemists at the University of Liège and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem within the framework of the European MOLOC project (Molecular Logic Circuits). This work has led to the publication of two important publications, one straight after the other, in the Nature Nanotechnology journal.

31 May 2010

Novel Approach to Measure Nanoparticle Uptake by Mammalian Cells

A Taiwan research team has developed a new approach for investigating the amount of nano-/microparticles taken up by mammalian cells. This project was led by Dr. Chung-Hsuan Chen, Distinguished Research Fel...

31 May 2010

Apollo Solar to Construct Thin Film Solar Power Stations with CECS

Apollo Solar Energy, Inc., a refiner and producer of high purity tellurium (Te), tellurium-based compounds and other metals for the solar photovoltaic (PV) industry and specific segments of the electronic materials market worldwide, today announced that the Company has entered into a non-binding collaboration agreement with China Energy Conservation Solar Energy Technologies, Inc. to build scaled thin-film solar energy power stations.

31 May 2010

Scientists Mimic Colors of Butterflies’ Wings Using Nanofabrication

Scientists have discovered a way of mimicking the stunningly bright and beautiful colours found on the wings of tropical butterflies.

31 May 2010

New Technique to Produce Bulk Number of Graphene Sheets

In a development that could lead to novel carbon composites and touch-screen displays, researchers from Rice University and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology today unveiled a new method for producing bulk quantities of one-atom-thick sheets of carbon called graphene.

31 May 2010

SunPower to Establish Fab 3 JV with AUO

SunPower Corp., a Silicon Valley-based manufacturer of high-efficiency solar cells, solar panels and solar systems, today announced a definitive agreement to form a joint venture (JV) with AU Optronics Corp., a leading global manufacturer of thin-film transistor liquid-crystal displays (TFT-LCD) based in Taiwan.

31 May 2010