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Patented Process Technology Drives New Generation of Inks

Five Star Technologies, the leader in fine particle dispersions for functional inks, announced the availability of ElectroSperse(TM) S-series solar inks for use in crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells. Five Star's ...

26 Sep 2008

Squeezing Light into Sub-Wavelength Spots

In a new study, physicists at the University of Toronto have invented a simple structure called a meta-screen, designed to focus light into tiny spots smaller than the wavelength of the photons in use. These sub-waveleng...

26 Sep 2008

Sorting Carbon Nanotubes with Light

Singled-walled carbon nanotubes are graphene sheets wrapped into tubes, and are typically made up of various sizes and with different amounts of twist (also known as chiralities). Each type of nanotube has its own electr...

26 Sep 2008

Calculating a Well-Known Nuclear Decay Process

An international team of scientists from RIKEN at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and elsewhere in the USA, Japan and the UK are testing the Standard Model-the foundation of high-energy physics that unifies three of the four known forces found in nature-by calculating a well-known nuclear decay process.

26 Sep 2008

Obtaining Protein Structures More Efficiently

The chances of obtaining crystals of sufficient quality and quantity to allow determination of three-dimensional protein structures using synchrotron radiation are significantly increased using a mix of robots geared to different crystallization techniques.

26 Sep 2008

New Man-Made Materials Could Produce Unique Chaotic Motion in Electron Beams

A team at the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute in Wako has predicted that man-made structures called metamaterials could produce instabilities in electron beams*. The effect could provide new methods for generating and amplifying optical signals.

26 Sep 2008

New Graphene-Based Material Help Solve Structure of Graphite Oxide

A new "graphene-based" material that helps solve the structure of graphite oxide and could lead to other potential discoveries of the one-atom thick substance called graphene, which has applications in nanoelectronics, energy storage and production, and transportation such as airplanes and cars has been created by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin.

26 Sep 2008

New Imaging Method for Breast Cancer Utilizing Calcium Phosphate Nanoparticles and Infrared Imaging

A new imaging method for breast cancer has been developed by a team of scientists from Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Penn State College of Medicine and the departments of Materials Science and Engineering and Physics at Penn State. Their research, utilizing encapsulated fluorescent molecules in calcium phosphate nanoparticles and non-toxic near infrared imaging (NIR), appears in the Sept. 19 on-line issue of ACS Nano.

26 Sep 2008

Discovery Points to New Avenue for Cancer Treatment

Scientists at The Wistar Institute and their colleagues have identified, for the first time, a molecule that can regulate microRNAs - short strands of RNA that play a vital role in gene expression and are closely associa...

26 Sep 2008

New Bio-Imaging Mass Spectrometry Center Aims to Unravel Molecular Complexities of Biological Systems

Understanding biology at the systems level is difficult, especially when studying complex specimens like tissue slices or communities of organisms in a biofilm. Scientists must be able to identify, quantify and locate the molecules present in the samples.

26 Sep 2008