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Engineering Students Delving Deep into Nanotechnology

Five engineering students traveled to Arizona State University from across the country this summer for the opportunity to delve into advanced nanotechnology research with guidance from faculty of ASU’s Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering.

11 Aug 2009

Work Offers Insight into Water's Strange Bulk Properties

Water is familiar to everyone-it shapes our bodies and our planet. But despite this abundance, the molecular structure of water has remained a mystery, with the substance exhibiting many strange properties that are still poorly understood.

11 Aug 2009

Magnetic Microbes Could Accelerate Biotechnology and Nanotechnology Research

In a study published online in Genome Research, scientists have used genome sequencing to unlock new secrets about these magnetic microbes that could accelerate biotechnology and nanotechnology research.

11 Aug 2009

Using Light Energy to Guide and Change the Orientation of Living Cells within Lab Cultures

University of Central Florida researchers have shown for the first time that light energy can gently guide and change the orientation of living cells within lab cultures. That ability to optically steer cells could be a ...

11 Aug 2009

First Images of What's Actually Happening in Fuzzy Area of Crystal/Liquid Interface

"Imagine you're a water molecule in a glass of ice water, and you're floating right on the boundary of the ice and the water," proposes Emory University physicist Eric Weeks. "So how do you know if you're a solid or a liquid?"

11 Aug 2009

Scientists Devise New Type of Superconducting Circuit that Behaves Quantum Mechanically

Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have devised a new type of superconducting circuit that behaves quantum mechanically - but has up to five levels of energy instead of the usual two. The findings are published in the August 7 issue of Science.

11 Aug 2009

New Nanotechnology Research May Lead to Production of More Efficient Solar Cells

Growing - and precisely aligning - microscopic, spear-shaped zinc oxide crystals on a surface of single-crystal silicon, researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology may have developed a method to make more efficient solar cells.

11 Aug 2009

Researchers Discover Tool Widely used in Nanoscale Imaging Works Differently in Watery Environments

Researchers in the United States and Spain have discovered that a tool widely used in nanoscale imaging works differently in watery environments, a step toward better using the instrument to study biological molecules and structures.

11 Aug 2009

Sustained and Reliable Information Processing Operations on Electrically Charged Atoms

Physicists at NIST have demonstrated sustained, reliable information processing operations on electrically charged atoms (ions). The new work, overcomes significant hurdles in scaling up ion-trapping technology from small demonstrations to larger quantum processors.

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 11 Aug 2009

Study Enables ASTM to Revise Guidelines for Nanoparticle Sizing in Solutions

As a result of a major inter-laboratory study, the standards body ASTM International has been able to update its guidelines for a commonly used technique for measuring the size of nanoparticles in solutions. The study, w...

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 11 Aug 2009

New Calibration Technique Improving Reliability and Stability of Microhotplate

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new calibration technique that will improve the reliability and stability of one of NIST's most versatile technologies, the microhotplate.

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 11 Aug 2009

Ytterbium Giving Time Standards Community More Options in Development of Next-Generation Atomic Clocks

An experimental atomic clock based on ytterbium atoms is about four times more accurate than it was several years ago, giving it a precision comparable to that of the NIST-F1 cesium fountain clock, the nation’s civilian time standard, scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) report in Physical Review Letters.*

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 11 Aug 2009

Nanotechnology News

Engineering Students Delving Deep into Nanotechnology

Work Offers Insight into Water's Strange Bulk Properties

Magnetic Microbes Could Accelerate Biotechnology and Nanotechnology Research

Using Light Energy to Guide and Change the Orientation of Living Cells within Lab Cultures

First Images of What's Actually Happening in Fuzzy Area of Crystal/Liquid Interface

Scientists Devise New Type of Superconducting Circuit that Behaves Quantum Mechanically

New Nanotechnology Research May Lead to Production of More Efficient Solar Cells

Researchers Discover Tool Widely used in Nanoscale Imaging Works Differently in Watery Environments

Sustained and Reliable Information Processing Operations on Electrically Charged Atoms

Study Enables ASTM to Revise Guidelines for Nanoparticle Sizing in Solutions

New Calibration Technique Improving Reliability and Stability of Microhotplate

Ytterbium Giving Time Standards Community More Options in Development of Next-Generation Atomic Clocks

Engineers for the First Time Control All Degrees of Particle's Motion

Researchers Develop New Laser Technique for Searching Unusual Isotopes

University of Cambridge Department of Engineering Announces Winners of Photography Competition

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