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Next Generation Solar Research to get $21million from Department of Energy

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Samuel W. Bodman today announced that the Department will invest $21.7 million in next generation photovoltaic (PV) technology to help accelerate the widespread use of advanced s...

27 Nov 2007

Resistive Bridge Sensor Signal Conditioning IC Optimized for Microcontroller Based Sensor Systems

ZMD AG, a global supplier of analog and mixed-signal solutions for automotive, industrial, medical, and consumer applications, today announced a new addition to its family of resistive bridge (RBic-Lite™) signal co...

27 Nov 2007

Nanotechnology Declared a "Risky Little Business" by the Economist

A major feature story in this week's Economist magazine (November 24, 2007) highlights the enormous promise of nanotechnology-for breakthroughs in medicine, sustainable energy, and electronics. But the article, &quot...

27 Nov 2007

Australian Team Invents Way of Measuring Length as Accurately as the Rules of Physics will Allow

Never try telling a quantum physicist that near enough is good enough – Australian researchers have invented a technique that, for the first time, measures lengths as accurately as the laws of physics allow. In a p...

27 Nov 2007

Nanotech Battery Powers Smart Shell Fired From Tank

mPhase Technologies, Inc. today announced a successful firing of its AlwaysReady, Inc. Smart NanoBattery that delivered power for a 120mm smart shell fired by a US Army Abrams tank for 3 miles. Posted 27th November 20...

27 Nov 2007

Shopping Bags Go Environmentally Friendly With Help of Nanotechnology

The Japanese convenience store am/pm Japan Co. is using plastic shopping bags in its Toyko area stores that are thinner but just as strong as the standard plastic market bag. The innovative bags are made of advanced p...

27 Nov 2007

Low Light Lens Biomimics Nanoscopic Structure of Moth Eyes

When moths fly at night, their eyes need to capture all the light available. To do this, certain species have evolved nanoscopic structures on the surface of their eyes which allow almost no light to reflect off the surf...

27 Nov 2007

Brilliant X-Ray Light Source Building to be Topped Out

DESY celebrates the topping-out ceremony for the experimental hall of PETRA III – the new source of especially brilliant X-ray light in Hamburg. On occasion of the structural completion of the building, German Rese...

27 Nov 2007

Completely Safe T-Rays Set to Replace X-Rays in Medical and Security Screening Applications

Going through airport security can be such a hassle. Shoes, laptops, toothpastes, watches and belts all get taken off, taken out, scanned, examined, handled and repacked. But "T-rays", a completely safe form of...

27 Nov 2007

Microfabrication of Semiconductors Using Classic Equipment from 1957

A 1957 classic sits in the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) clean room. It’s not a Chevy, but a Veeco vacuum evaporator more than six feet tall and five feet wide. The evaporator, still in use today, d...

27 Nov 2007

High Performance Field Effect Transistors Made at Room Temperature with Thin Films of Carbon 60

Using room-temperature processing, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have fabricated high-performance field effect transistors with thin films of Carbon 60, also known as fullerene. The ability to produc...

27 Nov 2007

Ultrafast Electron Microscopy Reveals Light Switchable Nanochannels in Materials

Microscopic fissures in a tiny crystal open and close - on command. Researchers led by Ahmed H. Zewail successfully used ultrafast electron microscopy (UEM) to observe nanoscopic structures at their “exercises&rdqu...

27 Nov 2007

Reliable Analytical Method for Accurately Determining the Percentage of Carbon, Hydrogen and Nitrogen Content in Difficult to Combust Perfluorinated Compounds

Exeter Analytical has released a new application note that describes a reliable analytical method for accurately determining the percentage Carbon (C), Hydrogen (H) and Nitrogen (N) content of difficult to combust perflu...

27 Nov 2007

Nanotechnology Industry Body to Support Unified Representation of all Nanotechnology Industries

Today, the UK’s biggest nanotechnology trade fair, marks the launch of the Nanotechnology Industries Asociation formation as a limited company, enabling the lobbying body to abandon previous restrictions and fully ...

27 Nov 2007

Halo, Jeep and Nanotechnology Result in Wild, Radical, Yet Environmentally Friendly Concept Car

Chrysler has just released a few details about their 2008 Jeep Renegade Concept car. With design cues reminiscent of vehicles in the computer game Halo the SUV uses nanotech enabled lithium ion batteries to suppliment th...

26 Nov 2007

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Next Generation Solar Research to get $21million from Department of Energy

Resistive Bridge Sensor Signal Conditioning IC Optimized for Microcontroller Based Sensor Systems

Nanotechnology Declared a "Risky Little Business" by the Economist

Australian Team Invents Way of Measuring Length as Accurately as the Rules of Physics will Allow

Nanotech Battery Powers Smart Shell Fired From Tank

Shopping Bags Go Environmentally Friendly With Help of Nanotechnology

Low Light Lens Biomimics Nanoscopic Structure of Moth Eyes

Brilliant X-Ray Light Source Building to be Topped Out

Completely Safe T-Rays Set to Replace X-Rays in Medical and Security Screening Applications

Microfabrication of Semiconductors Using Classic Equipment from 1957

High Performance Field Effect Transistors Made at Room Temperature with Thin Films of Carbon 60

Ultrafast Electron Microscopy Reveals Light Switchable Nanochannels in Materials

Reliable Analytical Method for Accurately Determining the Percentage of Carbon, Hydrogen and Nitrogen Content in Difficult to Combust Perfluorinated Compounds

Nanotechnology Industry Body to Support Unified Representation of all Nanotechnology Industries

Halo, Jeep and Nanotechnology Result in Wild, Radical, Yet Environmentally Friendly Concept Car

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