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Singapore Emulsion Fuel Opens Asia's First Clear Nano-Emulsion Diesel Plant

Singapore Emulsion Fuel Pte Ltd (SgEF), an innovative player in the green energy space, today announced the opening of Asia's first clear nano-emulsion diesel plant. Located within Singapore's Tuas industrial zon...

5 Feb 2010

Recipe for Making Conductive Textile

A team of Stanford researchers is producing batteries and simple capacitors from ordinary textiles dipped in nanoparticle-infused ink. The conductive textiles - dubbed "eTextiles" - represent a new class of integrated energy storage device, born from the synthesis of prehistoric technology with cutting-edge materials science.

5 Feb 2010

Researchers Directly Measured Energy Associated with Expulsion of Viral DNA

For the first time, Carnegie Mellon University physicist Alex Evilevitch has directly measured the energy associated with the expulsion of viral DNA, a pivotal discovery toward fully understanding the physical mechanisms that control viral infection and designing drugs to interfere with the process.

5 Feb 2010

Scientists Develop Near-Field Microscope with Spatial Resolution of 17 nm

Scientists of the research group of Prof. Dr. Alfred Meixner and Dr. Dai Zhang from the Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Tübingen have developed a near-field microscope that can measure the optical properties of e. g. semiconductor thin films with a spatial resolution and sensitivity long thought unachievable due to fundamental physical laws (diffraction limit).

5 Feb 2010

Discovery a Giant Leap in Quantum Computing

A major hurdle in the ambitious quest to design and construct a radically new kind of quantum computer has been finding a way to manipulate the single electrons that very likely will constitute the new machines' processing components or "qubits."

5 Feb 2010

Nanotechnology Playing Key Role in Detection and Treatment of Cancer

A world-renowned medical researcher discusses the key role that nanotechnology has begun to play in the detection and treatment of cancer in an article that will appear in the March 2010 edition of Mechanical Engineering...

5 Feb 2010

IBM Researchers Demonstrate Graphene Transistor with the Highest Cut-Off Frequency

In a just-published paper in the magazine Science, IBM (NYSE: IBM) researchers demonstrated a radio-frequency graphene transistor with the highest cut-off frequency achieved so far for any graphene device - 100 billion cycles/second (100 GigaHertz).

5 Feb 2010

Researchers Produces New Type of Lighting Component using Graphene

With the use of the new super material graphene, Swedish and American researchers have succeeded in producing a new type of lighting component. It is inexpensive to produce and can be fully recycled. The invention, wh...

5 Feb 2010

New Composite Material that Could Revolutionise Car Design and Manufacturing

Scientists develop new composite material that could revolutionise car design and manufacturing. Parts of a car's bodywork could one day double up as its battery, according to the scientists behind a new €3.4 million project announced today.

5 Feb 2010

First Glimpse of Physics at New Energy Frontier

In December, the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle accelerator, shattered the world record for highest energy particle collisions.

5 Feb 2010

Resonator Emits Brief Flashes of Light for Entangled Photons

An important step in the way towards the quantum computer is the generation and testing of systems made up of several entangled quantums. When constructing such quantum systems, photons, light particles, are well sui...

5 Feb 2010

Automated, Continuous and Repeatable Process for Separating Metallic and Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes

The New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) announced that, as a part of Industrial Technology Research Grant Program, Takeshi Tanaka (Research Scientist) of AIST, and his colleagues have successfully developed a method for high-purity separation of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs)* into metallic SWCNTs and semiconducting SWCNTs by using a column packed with agarose gel**.

5 Feb 2010

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Singapore Emulsion Fuel Opens Asia's First Clear Nano-Emulsion Diesel Plant

Recipe for Making Conductive Textile

Researchers Directly Measured Energy Associated with Expulsion of Viral DNA

Scientists Develop Near-Field Microscope with Spatial Resolution of 17 nm

Discovery a Giant Leap in Quantum Computing

Nanotechnology Playing Key Role in Detection and Treatment of Cancer

IBM Researchers Demonstrate Graphene Transistor with the Highest Cut-Off Frequency

Researchers Produces New Type of Lighting Component using Graphene

New Composite Material that Could Revolutionise Car Design and Manufacturing

First Glimpse of Physics at New Energy Frontier

Resonator Emits Brief Flashes of Light for Entangled Photons

Automated, Continuous and Repeatable Process for Separating Metallic and Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes

Finely Tuned Rare-Earth Metal Catalyzes the Exact Interactions Needed for Site-Selective Molecular Synthesis

Imec and Holst Centre to Present at International Solid State Circuit Conference

Scientists to Investigate Effects of High-Energy Beam on Nano Components and Human Cells

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