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TEACH NANO Offers Practical Insights into Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology is everywhere but in schools. It is therefore necessary to provide teachers with suitable tools and skills for teaching nanotechnology in science classes. The training course for teachers "TEACH NANO&...

30 Jun 2008

Record Light Conversion Efficiency in Solvent-Free Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

In a paper published online June 29 in the journal Nature Materials, EPFL professor Michael Graetzel, Shaik Zakeeruddin and colleagues from the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have achieved a record light conversion efficiency of 8.2% in solvent-free dye-sensitized solar cells. This breakthrough in efficiency without the use of volatile organic solvents will make it possible to pursue large scale, outdoor practical application of lightweight, inexpensive, flexible dye-sensitized solar films that are stable over long periods of light and heat exposure.

30 Jun 2008

Report Provides Analysis, Information and Key Players in Nanotechnology

"Nanomaterials and Markets" report provides detailed market analysis, commercial information and key players in nanotechnology. This report presents a clear picture of the scale of opportunity in nanotechno...

30 Jun 2008

Integrating Optical Structures with Electrical Devices at the Nanoscale

Engineers working in optical communications bear more than a passing resemblance to dreamers chasing rainbows. They may not wish literally to capture all the colors of the spectrum, but they do seek to control the rat...

28 Jun 2008

Nanoselenium Cloth Capturing Mercury Vapor from Broken CFLs

With rising energy prices and greater concern over global warming, compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) are having a successful run. Sales of the curlicue, energy-sipping bulbs, which previously had languished since they were introduced in the United States in 1979, reached nearly 300 million last year. Experts expect that figure to rise steeply by 2012, when a federal law requiring energy-efficient lighting goes into effect.

28 Jun 2008

SVTC Technologies Selects Next Generation MEMS Processing Tools from SUSS MicroTec

SUSS MicroTec, Inc., a leading supplier of process and test solutions for the semiconductor industry, announces a suite of processing tools that enable new generations of micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) has been s...

28 Jun 2008

New Hybrid Atom Could be Used to Develop Quantum Computers

The odd behavior of a molecule in an experimental silicon computer chip has led to a discovery that opens the door to quantum computing in semiconductors.

27 Jun 2008

Using Nanotechnology to Boost Boiling Efficiency

Whoever penned the old adage "a watched pot never boils" surely never tried to heat up water in a pot lined with copper nanorods.

27 Jun 2008

Researchers Developed Method to Self-Assemble Metals into Complex Nanostructures

For 5,000 years or so, the only way to shape metal has been to "heat and beat." Even in modern nanotechnology, working with metals involves carving with electron beams or etching with acid. Now, Cornell rese...

27 Jun 2008

Significant Advancement in Application of Carbon Nanotubes for Flexible Electronics

The Chair of Display Technology, Universitaet Stuttgart, and Nano-Proprietary, Inc.'s subsidiary Applied Nanotech, Inc. announce significant advancement in the application of carbon nanotubes for the flexible electro...

27 Jun 2008

New Technique for Fabricating Nanowire Photonic and Electronic Integrated Circuits

Scientists at Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), collaborating collaborating with researchers from the German universities of Jena, Gottingen, and Bremen, have developed a new technique for fabricating nanowire photonic and electronic integrated circuits that may one day be suitable for high-volume commercial production.

27 Jun 2008

Nanocopoeia to Co-Develop Arborescent Block Copolymers for Biomedical Use

Following the launch at BIO International in San Diego last week of NanoInterventions, their cardiovascular joint venture partnership, Nanocopoeia and WORLDiscoveries(TM) are pleased to announce their broader agreement t...

From Nanocopoeia Inc. 27 Jun 2008

Event to Feature a Nanotechnology Pavilion for the First Time

Micronora, the international microtechnology and high-precision trade fair, will be held from 23 to 26 September 2008 in Besançon (in Eastern France). In 2008, for the first time, the event will also feature a Nanot...

27 Jun 2008

Ecliptek Shortens Delivery Time on Complete Product Line of EMO Oscillators

Ecliptek has just shortened the delivery time on their complete product line of EMO oscillators. Ecliptek's programmable MEMS clock oscillators provide component engineers with a vast range of readily available solutions, necessary to meet the dynamic requirements of today's global market.

26 Jun 2008

Global Funding For Nanotechnology Amounts To Over $25 Billion In 2008

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "The Nanotechnology Opportunity Report (NOR) 2008, 3rd Edition" report to their offering. The Nanotechnology Opportunity Report (NOR) 2008, 3rd Edition...

From Research and Markets 26 Jun 2008