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Researchers Created New Material that Overcomes Major Obstacles to Solar Power

Researchers have created a new material that overcomes two of the major obstacles to solar power: it absorbs all the energy contained in sunlight, and generates electrons in a way that makes them easier to capture. O...

17 Oct 2008

Transformation Optics May Usher in a Host of Radical Advances

A new research field called transformation optics may usher in a host of radical advances including a cloak of invisibility and ultra-powerful microscopes and computers by harnessing nanotechnology and "metamaterials."

17 Oct 2008

Ripples in Structure of Graphene Key to Understanding its Unusual Characteristics

Graphene is a two-dimensional material that consists of a hexagonal array of carbon just one atom thick . Although it is essentially just a single sheet of graphite, its properties are remarkable and unique. Notably, its charge carriers behave like massless relativistic particles, and move at a speed of just 300 times less than the speed of light-many times more quickly than in silicon.

17 Oct 2008

Advanced Battery Technologies Signs 5-Year Contract With Leading OEM Manufacturer

Advanced Battery Technologies, Inc. today announced it has signed a five-year sales contract with Veken USA Co. Ltd., a China-based multi-billion dollar corporation and one of the world's leading OEM manufacturers se...

17 Oct 2008

SymPowerco Corp. Targets Fuel Cell Markets

SymPowerco Corporation CEO John Davenport today announces the company's intention to pursue specific alternative power supply markets with its unique Flowing Electrolyte Direct Methanol Fuel Cell (FEDMFC). These mark...

16 Oct 2008

ZyGEM to Produce Innovative DNA Extraction Products Under Agreement

ZyGEM Corp. Ltd. today announced that it has entered into an agreement with the Advalytix product team of Olympus Life Science Research Europa GmbH to produce a private-label line of DNA extraction products. The collabor...

16 Oct 2008

World's First Color Carbon Nanotube-Based Electrophoretic Display

Unidym, Inc., a majority-owned subsidiary of Arrowhead Research Corporation, announced today that Samsung Electronics is demonstrating the world's first carbon nanotube-based color active matrix electrophoretic display (EPD) e-paper at the International Meeting on Information Display (iMiD) at KINTEX, Ilsan, Korea from October 13th through October 17th.

16 Oct 2008

Reducing Pollution from Nanoparticles by 25 Percent

A study undertaken by researchers from the University of Alcalá (UAH) shows that if the "super-polluters", the high-polluting vehicles, such as certain buses and lorries in a poor condition, were removed, pollution from nanoparticles could be reduced by up to 25% and 48%, depending on the parameter analysed. These minute particles cause serious health problems.

16 Oct 2008

New Fluorescence Microscope from Carl Zeiss Enables Reliable Detection of Tuberculosis

With the Primo Star iLED, Carl Zeiss is introducing a new fluorescence microscope which enables the fast and reliable detection of tuberculosis. Together with FIND, the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, which co-developed the microscope, the optics company will be presenting the system at the 39th World Union Conference on Lung Health in Paris from 17 to 20 October 2008.

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 16 Oct 2008

Country's Most Elaborate Travel-Wear Keeping Body Cool in Hot Helicopter Cabins

The country's most elaborate travel-wear keeps the body cool in hot helicopter cabins, but transforms into a heat-retaining suit if the helicopter should fall into the sea.

16 Oct 2008

Gold Nanorods Now Available for Non-Invasive Photothermal Cancer Therapy

A revolutionary new gold nanorod manufacturing method has been developed at Nanopartz where their patent pending gold nanorods are proving their ability to be the future in-vivo nanoparticle for the detection and treatme...

16 Oct 2008

Companies to Jointly Develop Platform for HSUPA Mobile Phone

NTT DOCOMO, INC., Renesas Technology Corp., Fujitsu Limited, and Sharp Corporation today announced that they plan to jointly develop the SH-Mobile G4 single-chip LSI device, and a platform incorporating it, to support th...

16 Oct 2008

Researchers Made Bold Stride in the Struggle to Detect Dark Matter

A team of researchers in Canada have made a bold stride in the struggle to detect dark matter. The PICASSO collaboration has documented the discovery of a significant difference between the acoustic signals induced by ne...

16 Oct 2008

Experiments Involve Some of the Coldest Gases in the Universe

University of Arizona scientists experimenting with some of the coldest gases in the universe have discovered that when atoms in the gas get cold enough, they can spontaneously spin up into what might be described as quantum mechanical twisters or hurricanes.

16 Oct 2008

Zoltek Announces Successful Start-up of Carbon Fiber Manufacturing Operations in Mexico

Zoltek Companies, Inc. today reported the successful start-up of acrylic precursor and carbon fibers manufacturing operations at its Zoltek de Mexico facility and provided updates on recent results and its business outlo...

16 Oct 2008