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C3Nano Named Top Winner of MIT Clean Energy Prize

C3Nano Inc., a team from Stanford University, was named the top winner of the MIT Clean Energy Prize for their revolutionary design that will increase the efficiency of solar photovoltaic panels. The national competition...

13 May 2010

Scientists Develop Molecular Nanorobot That Mimicks a Spider

A team of scientists from Columbia University, Arizona State University, the University of Michigan, and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have programmed an autonomous molecular "robot" made out of DNA to start, move, turn, and stop while following a DNA track.

13 May 2010

New DNA Assembly Line to Create Nanomaterials Efficiently

Chemists at New York University and China's Nanjing University have created a DNA assembly line that has the potential to create novel materials efficiently on the nanoscale. Their work is reported in the latest issu...

13 May 2010

Tango Systems Becomes Member of IME’s MEMS Consortium

Tango Systems, Inc., a leading manufacturer of high-performance PVD systems, has joined the Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (MEMS) Consortium launched by The Institute of Microelectronics (IME), a research institute of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), on April 8th 2010.

13 May 2010

Thermo Fisher Announces Webinar on Future Trends in Elemental Food Safety Analysis

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced that its educational webinar, entitled “Preparing for Future Trends in Elemental Food Safety Analysis,” is now available to view on-demand at www.spectroscopynow.com/thermowebinars.

13 May 2010

Scientists Reveal Secret Behind Formation of Spider Silk Fibers

Five times the tensile strength of steel and triple that of the currently best synthetic fibers: Spider silk is a fascinating material. But no one has thus far succeeded in producing the super fibers synthetically. How...

13 May 2010

Solterra Selects JETRO to Bring Tetrapod Quantum Dots Business to Japan

Solterra Renewable Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of Quantum Materials Corporation, today announced its participation in the Japanese External Trade Organization's (JETRO) program for bringing businesses to Japan.

13 May 2010

Microwave Transistor Laser Drives Modification of Current Law

While the laws of physics weren't made to be broken, sometimes they need revision. A major current law has been rewritten thanks to the three-port transistor laser, developed by Milton Feng and Nick Holonyak Jr. at ...

13 May 2010

Ascent Solar Begins Regular Production of Monolithically Integrated Thin-Film CIGS Modules

Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:ASTI), a developer of state of the art flexible thin-film solar modules, announced today that it has successfully begun initial production of monolithically integrated flexible CIG...

13 May 2010

ADI Develops ADXRS450 Digital iMEMS Gyroscope for New Industrial Applications

New applications for MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical systems) motion sensors are evolving in the industrial automation, medical, and instrumentation markets where much higher performance is required than is typically found in motion sensors designed for consumer applications.

13 May 2010