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Using Nanotechnology to Solve Problems in Developing Nations

As the world's population swells, environmental problems, energy limitations, shortages of clean water and food, and health threats are becoming crises, particularly in less developed countries. Innovations in nan...

22 Oct 2009

Using Electrical Signal to Control Elastic and Magnetic Properties of Nanomaterial

Researchers from the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, working with American researchers, have succeeded in using an electrical signal to control both the elastic and the magnetic properties of a nanomaterial at a very localized level.

22 Oct 2009

Nanogenerator Capable of Powering Variety of Small Devices

To power a very small device like a pacemaker or a transistor, you need an even smaller generator. The components that operate the generator are smaller yet, and the efficiency of those foundational components is critica...

22 Oct 2009

Chemist Successfully Created Metal-Free aNHCs

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have successfully created in the laboratory a class of carbenes, highly reactive molecules, used to make catalysts - substances that facilitate chemical reactions. Until now, chemists believed these carbenes, called "abnormal N-heterocyclic carbenes" or aNHCs, were impossible to make.

22 Oct 2009

Engineers Make Use of Man-Made Surfaces Resembling Lotus to Improve Efficiency of Modern Engineering Systems

Now, almost one thousand years since Zhou Dunyi wrote these lines in China, scientists finally understand how the plant keeps itself clean and dry. It took an ultra high speed camera, a powerful microscope and an audio speaker to unlock a secret that has puzzled scientists for ages.

22 Oct 2009

Discovery Could Offer New Information About How Molecule Moves and Works

Scientists who study RNA have faced a formidable roadblock: trying to examine RNA's movements in a living cell when they can't see the RNA. Now, a new technology has given scientists the first look ever at RNA in...

22 Oct 2009

Research Paves Way for New 3-D Lithography Method

Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have uncovered the physical mechanism by which arrays of nanoscale (billionths-of-a-meter) pillars can be grown on polymer films with very high precision, in potentially limitless patterns.

22 Oct 2009

Discovery Pointing the Way to Enzymes Tailor-Made for Any Application

Perilous and polluting industrial processes can be made safer with enzymes. But only a short range of enzymes have been available for the chemical industry. Recently a group of researchers at The Department of Chemis...

22 Oct 2009

Simple Way to Induce Nanoparticles to Assemble Themselves into Complex Arrays

An important advance towards this goal has been achieved by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) who have found a simple and yet powerfully robust way to induce nanoparticles to assemble themselves into complex arrays.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 22 Oct 2009

Tegal Wins Order from Leading Provider of Advanced Systems and Technologies Products

Tegal Corporation, (Nasdaq:TGAL) an innovator of specialized production solutions for the fabrication of advanced MEMS, power ICs and optoelectronic devices, today announced it has received an order for a Tegal 110 S/DE DRIE tool from a leading provider of advanced systems and technologies products.

From Collabrx, Inc. 22 Oct 2009

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Using Nanotechnology to Solve Problems in Developing Nations

Using Electrical Signal to Control Elastic and Magnetic Properties of Nanomaterial

Nanogenerator Capable of Powering Variety of Small Devices

Chemist Successfully Created Metal-Free aNHCs

Engineers Make Use of Man-Made Surfaces Resembling Lotus to Improve Efficiency of Modern Engineering Systems

Discovery Could Offer New Information About How Molecule Moves and Works

Research Paves Way for New 3-D Lithography Method

Discovery Pointing the Way to Enzymes Tailor-Made for Any Application

Simple Way to Induce Nanoparticles to Assemble Themselves into Complex Arrays

Tegal Wins Order from Leading Provider of Advanced Systems and Technologies Products

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