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Scientist Reviews Limiting Factors in Development of Computing Systems

From their origins in the 1940s as sequestered, room-sized machines designed for military and scientific use, computers have made a rapid march into the mainstream, radically transforming industry, commerce, entertainment and governance while shrinking to become ubiquitous handheld portals to the world.

14 Aug 2014

Covaris Debuts microTUBE LV for Next Generation Sequencing Applications

Covaris, Inc. announced the introduction of the patent-pending microTUBE LV, its latest product designed for low volume, high performance DNA Shearing for Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) applications.

14 Aug 2014

NSF Grants CAREER Award for Research on Computational Models of Nanoscale Electrically Tunable Solid State Devices

Assistant Professor Maria Gracheva, Clarkson University Department of Physics, has received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to perform research on computational models of solid-state devices for biomolecular sensing and detection.

14 Aug 2014

Ion Beam Microscope Helps Analyze Nano-Sized Fragments of 2,000-Year-Old Sarcophagus

He looks almost Byzantine or Greek, gazing doe-eyed over the viewer’s left shoulder, his mouth forming a slight pout, like a star-struck lover or perhaps a fan of the races witnessing his favorite charioteer losing control of his horses.

14 Aug 2014

Forecast Report on Global Titanium Dioxide Market

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Titanium Dioxide Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2014 - 2020" report to their offering.

From Research and Markets 14 Aug 2014

Novel Microscopy Method Utilizes a Cannula and an LED Light to Make 3-D Images

A University of Utah team discovered a method for turning a small, $40 needle into a 3-D microscope capable of taking images up to 70 times smaller than the width of a human hair. This new method not only produces high-quality images comparable to expensive microscopes, but may be implanted into the brains of living mice for imaging at the cellular level.

14 Aug 2014

Latest Advances in On-Chip Graphene-Based Planar Interdigital Micro-Supercapacitors

The rapid development of miniaturized portable electronic devices, such as micro-electromechanical systems, microrobots and implantable medical devices, has stimulated intense demand for micro-scale power sources.

14 Aug 2014

RURI to Leverage UMass Lowell's Strengths in Printed Electronics and Nanotechnology

Raytheon Company and the University of Massachusetts Lowell have announced an agreement to establish a joint research facility focused on the advancement of innovative technologies in a collaborative, state-of-the-art institute. Raytheon is committing $3 million with options to $5 million throughout the next 10 years for establishment of this research facility.

13 Aug 2014

Vascular Enabled Integrated Nanosecond Pulse Procedure Helps Open Blood-Brain-Barrier

A team of researchers from the Virginia Tech-Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences have developed a new way of using electricity to open the blood-brain-barrier (BBB).

13 Aug 2014

Novel Research Leverages Complex Oxides to Manipulate Magnetic Domain Walls Within Semiconductor Memory Device Wires

University of California, Davis researchers sponsored by Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the world’s leading university-research consortium for semiconductors and related technologies, are exploring new materials and device structures to develop next-generation memory technologies.

13 Aug 2014

DOE Ames Lab Scientist Wins AVS Medard W. Welch Award

Pat Thiel has been named the 2014 winner of the AVS Medard W. Welch Award, which recognizes outstanding research in the fields of materials, interfaces and processing. Thiel, who is a faculty scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory and a Distinguished Professor of chemistry at Iowa State University, is recognized for her "seminal contributions to the understanding of quasicrystalline surfaces and thin-film nucleation and growth."

13 Aug 2014

Nanoscale Material Researcher Named Finalist for Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists

Patrick Hopkins, an assistant professor in the University of Virginia’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, is a finalist for the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists, which will honor three U.S. faculty-rank scientists or engineers age 42 or younger.

13 Aug 2014

Novel Eco-Friendly Method to Synthesize Polymer Nanoparticles for Organic-Based Solar Cells

A team of materials chemists, polymer scientists, device physicists and others at the University of Massachusetts Amherst today report a breakthrough technique for controlling molecular assembly of nanoparticles over multiple length scales that should allow faster, cheaper, more ecologically friendly manufacture of organic photovoltaics and other electronic devices. Details are in the current issue of Nano Letters.

13 Aug 2014

Foam Found to be Favorable for Maximizing Enhanced Oil Recovery

A Rice University laboratory has provided proof that foam may be the right stuff to maximize enhanced oil recovery (EOR).

13 Aug 2014

Trojan Horse Nanospheres Kill Tumour Cells

A "Trojan horse" treatment for an aggressive form of brain cancer, which involves using tiny nanoparticles of gold to kill tumour cells, has been successfully tested by scientists.

13 Aug 2014

Nanotechnology News

Scientist Reviews Limiting Factors in Development of Computing Systems

Covaris Debuts microTUBE LV for Next Generation Sequencing Applications

NSF Grants CAREER Award for Research on Computational Models of Nanoscale Electrically Tunable Solid State Devices

Ion Beam Microscope Helps Analyze Nano-Sized Fragments of 2,000-Year-Old Sarcophagus

Forecast Report on Global Titanium Dioxide Market

Novel Microscopy Method Utilizes a Cannula and an LED Light to Make 3-D Images

Latest Advances in On-Chip Graphene-Based Planar Interdigital Micro-Supercapacitors

RURI to Leverage UMass Lowell's Strengths in Printed Electronics and Nanotechnology

Vascular Enabled Integrated Nanosecond Pulse Procedure Helps Open Blood-Brain-Barrier

Novel Research Leverages Complex Oxides to Manipulate Magnetic Domain Walls Within Semiconductor Memory Device Wires

DOE Ames Lab Scientist Wins AVS Medard W. Welch Award

Nanoscale Material Researcher Named Finalist for Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists

Novel Eco-Friendly Method to Synthesize Polymer Nanoparticles for Organic-Based Solar Cells

Foam Found to be Favorable for Maximizing Enhanced Oil Recovery

Trojan Horse Nanospheres Kill Tumour Cells

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