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Guide Provides Clear Descriptions of All the Main Fields of Technology

Our everyday lives are dictated by technical developments, and we will be increasingly moulded and changed by them. We can only actively help to shape the future if we know what awaits us.

10 Jun 2009

Scientists Counteract Nanoparticle Lung Damage in Mice

Scientists have identified for the first time a mechanism by which nanoparticles cause lung damage and have demonstrated that it can be combated by blocking the process involved, taking a step toward addressing the growi...

10 Jun 2009

Cymbet Honored with Sensors’ "Best of Sensors Expo 2009" Bronze Award

Cymbet Corporation, a leader in thin-film, solid-state battery technology, today announced that it has been honored with a Sensors' "Best of Sensors Expo 2009" bronze award. Cymbet won this award for its En...

10 Jun 2009

RainDance Technologies Announces Shipment of RDT 1000 and Sequence Enrichment Solution to TGen

RainDance Technologies, Inc., a provider of innovative microdroplet-based solutions for human health and disease research, today announced the shipment of an RDT 1000 and Sequence Enrichment Solution to the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen).

From Bio-Rad Laboratories India Pvt. Ltd. 10 Jun 2009

Molecular Imprints' J-FILN Nanopatterning Solution Continues to Gain Momentum in NVM Markets

Molecular Imprints, Inc., the technology leader for high-resolution, low cost-of-ownership nanopatterning systems and solutions in the hard disk drive (HDD) and semiconductor industries, today announced that its innovati...

10 Jun 2009

Grant to Train Graduate Students on Cutting-Edge Research

Colorado State University scientists this month received a $2.7 million National Science Foundation grant to train graduate students on cutting-edge research while also preparing them to share their knowledge with K-12 teachers and industry.

10 Jun 2009

Tunable Bandgap Means Tunable Transistors, LEDs and Lasers

Today's transistors and light emitting diodes (LED) are based on silicon and gallium arsenide semiconductors, which have fixed electronic and optical properties. Now, University of California, Berkeley, researchers ha...

10 Jun 2009

Partnership Results in Promising New Tool for Fighting Infections

Though it looks like a tiny purple blowtorch, a pencil-sized plume of plasma on the tip of a small probe remains at room temperature as it swiftly dismantles tough bacterial colonies deep inside a human tooth. But it&#39...

10 Jun 2009

A Widely Tunable Bandgap in Bilayer Graphene

Graphene is the two-dimensional crystalline form of carbon, whose extraordinary electron mobility and other unique features hold great promise for nanoscale electronics and photonics. But there's a catch: graphene has no bandgap.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 10 Jun 2009

Formation of Interconnected Carbon Nanostructures on Graphene Substrate in a Simple Assembly Process

Engineers from the University of Pennsylvania, Sandia National Laboratories and Rice University have demonstrated the formation of interconnected carbon nanostructures on graphene substrate in a simple assembly process that involves heating few-layer graphene sheets to sublimation using electric current that may eventually lead to a new paradigm for building integrated carbon-based devices.

10 Jun 2009

The 1MX Technology Significantly Improves the RF and Microwave Performance of |Z| Probe Family of RF Wafer Probes

SUSS MicroTec Test Systems, one of the world's leading suppliers of process and testing solutions for markets as Advanced Packaging, MEMS, Nanotechnology, Compound Semiconductor, Silicon-On-Insulator and 3D Interconn...

From SUSS MicroTec AG 10 Jun 2009

First Use of a Fundamentally New Approach in the Quest to Snare the Holy Grail of Lighting Industry

Researchers are reporting the first use of a fundamentally new approach in the quest to snare the Holy Grail of the lighting industry: An LED (light-emitting diode) - those ultra-efficient, long-lived light sources - that emits pure white light.

10 Jun 2009

Sniffing Out Chronic Renal Failure in its Earliest and Most Treatable Stages

Scientists in Israel have identified the key substances in exhaled breath associated with healthy and diseased kidneys -raising expectations, they say, for development of long-sought diagnostic and screening tests that literally sniff out chronic renal failure (CRF) in its earliest and most treatable stages.

10 Jun 2009

New Process for the Production of Tin Sulfide Nanotubes

Since the discovery of carbon nanotubes in the early 1990s, nanotubes and nanowires have been the focus of much scientific attention. Aside from carbon, nanotubes have since been made from various other materials.

10 Jun 2009

Low-Profile High-Stability Motion-Sensing IC Allows Mobile Applications to Deliver Enhanced User Experiences

STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global leader in developing and delivering semiconductor solutions across the spectrum of microelectronics applications, has introduced the world's thinnest three-axis digital MEMS accelerometer.

From STMicroelectronics 10 Jun 2009