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New Materials Making Photovoltaic Devices Cost Efficient

Scientists work to convert sunlight to cheaper electricity at South Dakota State University. Research scientists are working with new materials that can make devices used for converting sunlight to electricity cheaper an...

21 Aug 2008

Europe's Leading Nanoelectronics Research Institute Broadens Wireless Health Monitoring Technology

In the framework of Holst Centre, IMEC - Europe's leading independent nanoelectronics research institute - has broadened the functionality and scope of its wireless health monitoring technology by linking it to real-time extraction of relevant medical data.

21 Aug 2008

Researcher Named as One of the World's Top Young Innovators for His Work on Graphene

Dr Kostya Novoselov of The University of Manchester has been named as one of the world's top young innovators for his work on the world's thinnest material.

21 Aug 2008

Researchers are Hoping for Improved Therapies for Treating Age-Related Diseases

Not a day passes when we don't get a little bit older. However, the exact processes involved in human aging are still puzzling. Scientists working with Lenhard Rudolph and Hong Jiang from the Max Planck Research Group for Stem Cell Aging in Ulm have now identified a group of proteins that reveal the biological age of a person. These biomarkers could be used in medicine to adapt therapies for older people to their individual biological age (PNAS, August 12, 2008).

21 Aug 2008

Diatom Reduces Red Tide’s Toxicity to Animals and Other Algae

It's estimated that the red tide algae, Karenia brevis, costs approximately $20 million per bloom in economic damage off the coast of Florida alone. Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have found that a diatom can reduce the levels of the red tide's toxicity to animals and that the same diatom can reduce red tide's toxicity to other algae as well.

21 Aug 2008

Projects Ranging from Thin-Film Solar Cells to Device Revolutionizing Mass Spectrometry Being Funded at OSU

Six projects, ranging from thin-film solar cells created with ink-jet printing technology to a meter that can measure the nitrogen content of leaves to a device that promises to revolutionize mass spectrometry - the mole...

21 Aug 2008

Conference Discusses State of the Art in Medical Applications of Nanotechnology

On March 4 - 6, 2009, international experts will gather in Berlin for the NanoMed 2009 conference to discuss the state of the art in medical applications of nanotechnology. Medical and healthcare applications are the ...

21 Aug 2008

mPhase Commercializing its First Nanotechnology Product

mPhase Technologies, Inc. is a U.S. based microfluidic and nanotechnology specialist. Through its wholly owned subsidiary Always Ready Inc., mPhase is commercializing its first nanotechnology product, the Smart NanoBatte...

From MyPebble 21 Aug 2008

Company Anticipates Breakthrough Meetings Will Discuss Ongoing Projects and Future Ventures

Industrial Nanotech, Inc., an emerging global leader in nanotechnology, today announced that Petrobas, the second largest company in Latin America, is sending a team from Brazil to meet with the Company's CEO/CTO and PhD Technical Group. The meetings will include six days at Industrial Nanotech’s laboratory in New Jersey and meetings in New York to discuss ongoing projects along with additional future ventures.

21 Aug 2008

Paving the Way for Organic Electronics

The success of today’s digital electronics is based on the CMOS technology. Novaled found a way to translate the classical inorganic CMOS-approach to the world of organic electronics paving the road of organic elec...

21 Aug 2008

Carbon Nanoparticles from Diesel Engines Slipping Through Vehicle Filters

Diesel engines emit countless carbon nanoparticles into the air, slipping through government regulation and vehicle filters. A new University of Michigan simulation shows that these nanoparticles can get trapped in the l...

21 Aug 2008

Fastest Quantum Computer Bit Demonstrated by Researchers

The fastest quantum computer bit that exploits the main advantage of the qubit over the conventional bit has been demonstrated by researchers at University of Michigan, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and the University o...

21 Aug 2008

Nanoscale Manipulator Having Twice the Dexterity of Similar Devices

Engineers have created a tiny motorized positioning device that has twice the dexterity of similar devices being developed for applications that include biological sensors and more compact, powerful computer hard drives.

21 Aug 2008

New Material Exists in Quantum Halfway House Between Magnet and Semiconductor

The semiconductor silicon and the ferromagnet iron are the basis for much of mankind's technology, used in everything from computers to electric motors. In this week's issue of the journal Nature (August 21st) an international group of scientists, including academic and industrial researchers from the UK, USA and Lesotho, report that they have combined these elements with a small amount of another common metal, manganese, to create a new material which is neither a magnet nor an ordinary semiconductor.

21 Aug 2008

Collaboration to Identify microRNAs Implicated in HIV Viral Replication and Their Function

Rosetta Genomics, Ltd. announced today a collaboration with the National Institute of Health to identify microRNAs involved in the progression of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), that may be used as potential drug...

20 Aug 2008