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Liquid-State-Field-Effect Transistors Promise Improvements for "Lab on a Chip" Devices

Parting a tiny red sea at the University of Cincinnati: Today's - and tomorrow's - sophisticated electronic devices may hinge on our ability to control microdrops of liquid on a surface. This effect, called elect...

4 Apr 2007

Predicting The Performance of Nanobatteries

Researchers at Delft University of Technology can predict how nanostructuring – the extreme reduction of structure – will affect the performance of Li-ion batteries. The nanostructuring of battery materials i...

3 Apr 2007

Nanoporous Hybrid Materials Undergo Massive Reversible Swelling

Scientists all over the world are participating in the quest of new materials with properties suitable for the environmentally friendly and economically feasible separation, recovery, and reuse of vapours and greenhouse ...

3 Apr 2007

Technique Creates Metal Memory

Crumpled kitchen foil that lays flat for reuse. Bent bumpers that straighten overnight. Dents in car doors that disappear when heated with a hairdryer. These and other physical feats may become possible with a technique ...

2 Apr 2007

Cooling Carbon Nanotubes

As the electronics industry continues to churn out smaller and slimmer portable devices, manufacturers have been challenged to find new ways to combat the persistent problem of thermal management. New research published ...

2 Apr 2007

Bubble Anomaly for a Hydrophilic Microheater Attributed to Nanobubbles

Using a microscope and some extreme 'snapshot' photography with shutter speeds only a few nanoseconds long, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Cornell University have u...

2 Apr 2007

Nanostructured Membranes Adopt Properties of Guest Molecules

Virginia Tech researchers announced last year that they had created a nanostructured membrane that incorporates DNA base pairs in order to impart molecular recognition and binding ability to the synthetic material. This ...

2 Apr 2007

Simple Technique for Cleaving Proteins into Convenient Pieces for Analysis

Chemists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Arizona State University have proposed an elegantly simple technique for cleaving proteins into convenient pieces for analysis. The prototype sa...

2 Apr 2007

Composition and Density of Nanoscale Calcium-Silicate-Hydrate in Cement

Using a brace of the most modern tools of materials research, a team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Northwestern University has shed new light on one of mankind's older constructio...

2 Apr 2007

European Nanobiocom Project Aims to Develop Intelligenet Bone Replacement Materials

More than half a million people in the European Union and a million in the United States suffer from disorders in or serious defects of some part of their bone structure. Operations involving grafts or implants, required...

2 Apr 2007

Formation of Nanobubbles in Boiling Water Captured Witnessed

Using a microscope and some extreme “snapshot” photography with shutter speeds only a few nanoseconds long, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Cornell University ha...

2 Apr 2007

BioForce Nano eNabler Performing Well at University of Limerick

BioForce Nanosciences, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of BioForce Nanosciences Holdings, Inc., in January sold a Nano eNabler™ molecular printer to the University of Limerick in Limerick, Ireland. The University P...

2 Apr 2007

Nanometrics Install Photoluminescence Mapping System at Philips Electronics Microsystems Plaza

Nanometrics Incorporated, the leading supplier of both advanced integrated and standalone metrology equipment for the semiconductor and related industries, today announced the successful installation of its recently intr...

30 Mar 2007

Ultra-High Resolution XYZ Piezo-Scanner Reaches 25 Picometer Resolution

PI (Physik Instrumente) L.P., a leading manufacturer of nanopositioning and piezo-based precision motion-control equipment for biotechnology / nanotechnology, photonics and semiconductor applications offers a new ultra-h...

30 Mar 2007

Industrial Nanotech's Lead Encapsulation Technology Chosen for Commercial Office Project

Industrial Nanotech, Inc., an emerging global leader in nanotechnology, announced today that its Nansulate® LDX lead encapsulation coating has been chosen for a commercial office project by Southern Environmental Ser...

29 Mar 2007