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When it Comes to Nanotechnology - Americans Have a Big Problem

When it comes to the world of the very, very small - nanotechnology - Americans have a big problem: Nano and its capacity to alter the fundamentals of nature, it seems, are failing the moral litmus test of religion. I...

7 Dec 2008

Strain-Tuned Quantum Dots Show New Optical Properties

Quantum dots, tiny luminescent particles made of semiconductors, hold promise for detecting and treating cancer earlier. However, if doctors were to use them in humans, quantum dots could have limitations related to thei...

7 Dec 2008

Report on the Global Market for Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology continues to be a thriving area of R+D in 2008. Public funding of nanotechnology worldwide in 2008 was approximately $6.7 with over US$5 billion initially committed by the Russian government and a raft of ...

From Research and Markets 7 Dec 2008

World Economic Forum Announces 34 Companies as Technology Pioneers 2009

The World Economic Forum announced today 34 visionary companies selected as Technology Pioneers 2009 for their accomplishments as innovators of the highest calibre, and whose technologies will have a deep impact on busin...

6 Dec 2008

World's First Graphene RF Field-Effect Transistors

HRL Laboratories, LLC, demonstrated the first graphene field-effect transistors (FETs) using epitaxial graphene film operating in the radio frequency (RF) range. Prior efforts with graphene FETs used exfoliated graphene films. The HRL milestone is a key step toward wafer-scale high-speed RF FETs, which could lead to a new generation of carbon-based RF integrated circuits for ultra-high-speed, ultra-low-power applications.

5 Dec 2008

Connecting Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Architecture Through Biomimetics

As a graduate student, Harvard physical chemist Joanna Aizenberg acquired a passionate curiosity about - of all things - sponges. She particularly liked the ones made of glass, whose apparent fragility belied the fact that they could withstand terrific pressure in the deep sea.

5 Dec 2008

Carl Zeiss's LSM 700 Measures Fine Roughness and Soft Surfaces

Carl Zeiss introduces the LSM 700 / mat laser scanning microscope for materials research. It allows very precise, 3-dimensional imaging of surfaces. The combination of fluorescence and reflection techniques enables high-precision examination of semiconductors, metal, glass and polymers with high information content.

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 5 Dec 2008

EPSRC Announces New Centres for Doctoral Training at Imperial College

Young scientists with the potential to make the next generation of world-changing breakthroughs will have their talents nurtured by five new Centres for Doctoral Training at Imperial College London, thanks to a funding i...

5 Dec 2008

Controlled Concentration of Hydrogen Atoms Key to Routine Use of ZnO as Semiconductor

Zinc oxide is a "jack of all trades" - thousands of tons thereof are produced all over the world every year. Its fields of utilization range from food additive to sun screening agents. It is even significant as semiconductor, although the great breakthrough in this field is yet to come. Perfect doping is not yet possible.

5 Dec 2008

Foster Corp. Opens New Facility Dedicated to Producing Specialty Tubing for Medical Device Industry

Foster Corporation, the leading developer and manufacturer of critical polymer compounds, has opened a new facility at its Putnam, Connecticut, headquarters dedicated to producing specialty tubing for the medical device industry.

5 Dec 2008

Proteus Biomedical Selected 2009 Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum

Proteus Biomedical Inc., a pioneer in intelligent medicine, announced today that the company has been selected a 2009 Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum.

5 Dec 2008

The Search for Improved Multiferroic Materials may Benefit from New Discovery in Iron-Based Oxide Compound

Materials known as 'multiferroics' hold great promise as memory storage devices owing to coupling between their magnetic and electric properties. Alas, in the multiferroic materials known to date, this coupling typically is very weak and limited to low temperatures, hampering their uptake in commercial applications.

4 Dec 2008

Bristol University Wins Funding for Four New Centres Generating Scientists and Engineers Needed for Britain's Future

Bristol University has won funding for four new centres that will generate the scientists and engineers needed for Britain's future, it was announced today [5 December 2008] by the Engineering and Physical Sciences R...

4 Dec 2008

Symposium Addresses Nanomaterials and Devices

Under the theme of nano- and molecular materials and devices, the 337th session of the Xiangshan Science Conferences convened from 2 to 4 December in Beijing. This symposium was chaired by Prof. ZHU Daoben from the CAS Institute of Chemistry, Prof. TONG Zhenhe from the CAS Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Prof. GAO Song from School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University and Prof. ZHANG Xi from Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University.

4 Dec 2008

Dry Winter Weather Leads to High Concentrations of Tiny Soot Nanoparticles

Dry winter weather and low level mixing of pollutants from vehicle exhausts in cities leads to the highest concentrations of the tiny soot particles, known as PM10 particles, according to German scientists writing in the...

4 Dec 2008