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Russia's Global Mission on Nanotechnology

A delegation of scientists from Russia visited Albany NanoTech Wednesday, underscoring the high-tech facility's growing presence on the international stage. The group included Leonid Melamed, chief executive officer ...

25 Jul 2008

Nanotechnology Putting CoQ10 and Other Dietary Supplements into Water

Lipshutz, a professor of chemistry at UC Santa Barbara, is the principal author of an upcoming review, "Transition Metal Catalyzed Cross-Couplings Going Green: in Water at Room Temperature," which will be published in Aldrichimica Acta in September. In it, Lipshutz and post-doctoral researcher Subir Ghorai discuss how recent advances in chemistry can be used to solubilize otherwise naturally insoluble compounds like CoQ10 into water.

25 Jul 2008

Measuring Atomic Spacings Down to a Few Picometres

Julich scientists have succeeded in precisely measuring atomic spacings down to a few picometres using new methods in ultrahigh-resolution electron microscopy. This makes it possible to find out decisive parameters determining the physical properties of materials directly on an atomic level in a microscope. Knut Urban from Forschungszentrum Julich, a member of the Helmholtz Association, reports on this in the latest issue (25 July) of the scientific high-impact journal Science.

25 Jul 2008

New Material Making Cars Even More Efficient by Turning Waste Heat into Electricity

Researchers have invented a new material that will make cars even more efficient, by converting heat wasted through engine exhaust into electricity. In the current issue of the journal Science, they describe a material w...

25 Jul 2008

Trapping Monolayer of Colloidal Particles in a Laser Lattice with Aperiodic Structure

Although order is pleasing to the eye, it can quickly become boring. In Islamic architecture therefore, decoration often follows a strict yet aperiodic pattern. Similar structures also form in certain materials, called quasicrystals. Physicists from the University of Stuttgart and the Max Planck Institute of Metals Research have succeeded in trapping a monolayer of colloidal particles, tiny plastic spheres, in a laser lattice with an aperiodic structure.

25 Jul 2008

Nanotechnology May Hold Key to Improving Early Detection of Prostate Cancer

Once limited to the electronics industry, semiconductor material may hold the key to improving early detection of prostate cancer among African-American men. Nanotechnology using quantum dots (QD) made from semicondu...

25 Jul 2008

16-Piece Lab-on-a-Chip Kit Bringing Microfluidic Devices to Scientific Masses

A type of device called a "lab-on-a-chip" could bring a new generation of instant home tests for illnesses, food contaminants and toxic gases. But today these portable, efficient tools are often stuck in the la...

25 Jul 2008

Nanoparticle-Based Assay Able to Detect Telomerase Activity

Telomerase, an enzyme that prevents chromosomes from shortening when they divide, is widely suspected of playing a key role in making cancer cells immortal. Though researchers have developed a variety of methods for meas...

25 Jul 2008

Taking Images of Ice Nanometers Thick Opens Door to New Experiments

Taking images of ice a few nanometers thick as it forms bulk ice was supposed to be impossible. A scanning tunneling microscope (STM) shouldn t work with ice because STMs create images by relying on conducting current, which runs contrary to one of ice's basic properties - insulation.

25 Jul 2008

Particle Sizing System Demonstrates DNA-Guided Formation of Ordered 3-D Crystalline Structures

A research team led by Dr Oleg Gang at the Brookhaven Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) in New York is using the Zetasizer Nano particle characterization system from Malvern Instruments in ground-breaking work that has demonstrated successful DNA-guided formation of ordered 3-D crystalline structures.

25 Jul 2008

GA to Commercialize Ceramic Composite Materials for Fuel Cell Technologies in Joint Venture

General Automotive Company, a global provider of parts, accessories and advanced technology for the automotive industry, today announced a joint venture with SenCer Inc. to develop, commercialize and market SenCer’s grou...

24 Jul 2008

Tracking Down The Origin of Material and Antimaterial

In science fiction stories it is either the inexhaustible energy source of the future or a superweapon of galactic magnitude: antimaterial. In fact, antimaterial can neither be found on Earth nor in space, is extremely c...

24 Jul 2008

HelioVolt and NREL Wins R+D 100 Award for Work in Thin Film PV Systems

HelioVolt Corporation, a producer of highly-efficient thin film solar energy products, today announced that it has garnered an R&D 100 Award from Research & Development (R&D) Magazine for work performed in pa...

24 Jul 2008

Nanotechnology Making Solar Energy More Affordable

Recent progress in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) research and development, which use innovative light-harvesting dye (the "sensitizer") to improve the optical absorption coefficient of the stained nanostructured electrodes, might color our dimming future energy security with a tint of rose, despite the looming depletion of fossil fuels. Costing only 10~20% as its silicon counterparts, the new devices might make it affordable for much more people to utilize solar energy, a handy renewable energy source.

24 Jul 2008

The Relationship Between Microstructure Defect and Coercivity Mechanism

The School of Physics, Shandong University, has shown that the coercivity mechanism of HDDR Nd-Fe-B permanent magnetic alloy is greatly related to its microstructure defect at the grain boundary. The investigation can pr...

24 Jul 2008