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Uniquely Detailed Look at What Happens When Gas Molecule Meets Fluid

Thought experiment: a carbon dioxide molecule-think of a cheerleader’s baton-comes slanting in at high speed over a dense liquid, strikes the surface and ricochets. How does it tumble? Fast or slow? Forward, backward or sideways? These are not idle questions because simple events like the tumbling molecule go to the heart of the chemistry and physics of gas-liquid interactions.

7 Aug 2008

NanoHorizons' SmartSilver Guards Wool Fabrics Against Microbes that Cause Odor

NanoHorizons Inc., a leader in the creation of nanoscale performance additives for the textile and medical industries, has been acknowledged by Australian Wool Innovation (AWI) as producing an effective antimicrobial for...

7 Aug 2008

Funding Sets Stage for High-Volume Manufacturing of Thin-Film Thermoelectric Devices

Nextreme Thermal Solutions, the leader in microscale thermal and power management products for the electronics industry, today announced securing $13 million in Series B financing. The round was led by Chart Venture Part...

7 Aug 2008

Nanotechnology Provider Signs Contract to Deliver Prototype Batteries for U.S. Army

Altair Nanotechnologies Inc., a leading provider of advanced nanomaterials technology used in power and energy systems and other applications, today announced that it has signed a $350,000 contract through the U.S. Army&...

7 Aug 2008

So You Think You Can Do a Chaotic Dance

A University of Utah study is shedding light on an important, unsolved physics problem: the relationship between chaos theory - which is based on 300-year-old Newtonian physics - and the modern theory of quantum mechanics.

7 Aug 2008

Flexible Web of Micro-Sensors Enables Eye-Shaped Camera

Instead of using a flat microchip as the light sensor for their new camera, a team of engineers has developed a sensor that is a flexible mesh of wire-connected pixels. The mesh is made from many of the same material...

7 Aug 2008

Hemispherical Eye Camera Using Single-Crystalline Silicon Detectors and Electronics

By combining stretchable optoelectronics and biologically inspired design, scientists have created a remarkable imaging device, with a layout based on the human eye. As reported in the Aug. 7 issue of the journal Nat...

7 Aug 2008

Revealling Hidden Properties of Ultracold Atomic Gases

Physicists at JILA, a joint institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado at Boulder, have demonstrated a powerful new technique that reveals hidden properties of ultracold atomic gases.

7 Aug 2008

Project to Developed Fully Integrated Nanochannel Chip and Reader for Single-Molecule Mapping

BioNanomatrix, Inc., a developer of breakthrough nanoscale whole genome imaging platforms for genetic diagnostics, personalized medicine and biomedical research, today announced receipt of a grant from the National Human...

7 Aug 2008

Nansulate PT Coating Used to Provide Thermal Insulation in Housing Project

Industrial Nanotech, Inc., an emerging global leader in nanotechnology, today announced that the Company's patented Nansulate® PT thermal insulation and corrosion resistance coating has been incorporated into the...

6 Aug 2008

Results Bring Reality of Workable Quantum Computer One Step Closer

Complex computer encryption codes could be solved and new drug design developed significantly faster thanks to new research carried out by the University of Surrey. The results bring the reality of a workable quantum com...

6 Aug 2008

Defining Exactly What Happens When Ice Freezes

"Ye canna change the laws of physics!" Scotty warned Captain Kirk on "Star Trek." But engineers and physicists at the University of Maryland may rewrite one of them.

6 Aug 2008

Nanotechnology Enables More Efficient Chemical Reactions in Fuel Cells

Fuel cells are one of the most touted new energy technologies. They directly convert the chemical energy of fuels into electrical energy, doing so roughly twice as efficiently as a diesel engine.

6 Aug 2008

Nanotechnology Company Awarded $1.5 Million Development Contract from U.S. Army

Nanocomp Technologies, Inc., a developer of energy-saving component products and performance materials, today announced it has been awarded a $1.5 million development contract from the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Center in ...

From Nanocomp Technologies Inc 6 Aug 2008

Researchers at UCSB Reaches Milestone in Experimental Quantum Mechanics

In a paper published in the July 17 issue of the journal Nature, UCSB physicists Max Hofheinz, John Martinis, and Andrew Cleland documented how they used a superconducting electronic circuit known as a Josephson phase qubit, developed in Martinis's lab, to controllably pump microwave photons, one at a time, into a superconducting microwave resonator.

6 Aug 2008