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Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Helps Detect Organic Dyestuffs in Renoir Masterpiece

Scientists are using powerful analytical and imaging tools to study artworks from all ages, delving deep below the surface to reveal the process and materials used by some of the world's greatest artists.

14 Feb 2014

New Report on Global Market for Scanning Probe Microscopes

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Scanning Probe Microscopes: The Global Market to 2020" report to their offering.

14 Feb 2014

Tiny Voids Within Amorphous Silicon Thin Film Solar Cell Network Reduces Solar Cell Efficiency

Researchers at the Helmholtz Center Berlin (HZB) have taken a leap forward towards a deeper understanding of an undesired effect in thin film solar cells based on amorphous silicon – one that has puzzled the scientific community for the last 40 years.

14 Feb 2014

Method to Characterize Physical Size and Elemental Composition of Nanoparticles Wins ABC Best Paper Award

The Springer journal Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry (ABC) has chosen Sherrie Elzey (32) and De-Hao Tsai (37) as the recipients of its Best Paper Award 2013. Elzey and Tsai are lead authors of a paper published in ABC which presents the development of a method to simultaneously characterize the size and elemental composition of nanoparticles, especially those used for nano therapeutics.

From Springer - Science and Technology Publishers 14 Feb 2014

Nanoparticles Deliver Drugs to Specifically Targeted Cancer Cells

Nanoparticles capable of delivering drugs to specifically targeted cancer cells have been created by a group of researchers from China.

14 Feb 2014

Graphene Membranes Allow Ultrafast Flow of Two Monolayers of Water

Graphene has proven itself as a wonder material with a vast range of unique properties. Among the least-known marvels of graphene is its strange love affair with water.

14 Feb 2014

New Report on Global Market for Nanocoatings

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Nanocoatings: The Global Market to 2020" report to their offering.

From Research and Markets 14 Feb 2014

Wet-Spun Carbon Nanotube Fiber Beats Copper in Carrying Electrical Current

On a pound-per-pound basis, carbon nanotube-based fibers invented at Rice University have greater capacity to carry electrical current than copper cables of the same mass, according to new research.

14 Feb 2014

Molecular Imprints to Sell Semiconductor Imprint Lithography Equipment Business to Canon

Molecular Imprints Inc. (MII), the market and technology leader for nanopatterning systems and solutions, today announced it has signed an agreement to sell its semiconductor imprint lithography equipment business to Canon Inc. of Tokyo, Japan. Canon currently manufactures and markets KrF excimer and i-line illumination optical lithography platforms.

14 Feb 2014

Forecast Report on Global Market for Graphene

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "The Global Market for Graphene: Forecasts to 2020" report to their offering.

From Research and Markets 14 Feb 2014

Integran Receives 2013 SERDP Award for Development of Nanostructured Alloy for Copper-Beryllium Replacement

Toronto-based Integran Technologies Inc. (Integran) today announced that it has received the 2013 SERDP (Strategic Environmental Research and Defense Program) Project-of-the-Year Award for Weapons Systems and Platforms for the development of a nanostructured alloy for copper-beryllium replacement.

13 Feb 2014

New NIST Technique Measures Changes in a Living Cell's Internal Redox Potential

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new method for accurately measuring a key process governing a wide variety of cellular functions that may become the basis for a "health checkup" for living cells.

13 Feb 2014

IBM ADC Brings Together Speed and Energy Efficiency at 32 Nanometers

IBM today announced that it has achieved a new technological advancement that will help improve Internet speeds to 200 - 400 Gigabits per second (Gb/s) at extremely low power.

13 Feb 2014

Localisation Microscopy Technique Selected as a Highlight of 2013

Many of the most striking recent observations in biology have been made using super-resolution microscopy techniques.

13 Feb 2014

Realtek UHD Smart TV Controller SoC Implemented in UMC's 40-nm Process Technology Achieves First-Pass Silicon Success

Synopsys, Inc., a global leader providing software, IP and services used to accelerate innovation in chips and electronic systems, Realtek Semiconductor Corp., one of the world's leading network and multimedia IC providers, and United Microelectronics Corporation, a leading global semiconductor foundry, today announced that their collaboration has resulted in first-pass silicon success of Realtek's RTD2995 UHD Smart TV Controller SoC implemented in UMC's 40LP, the foundry's volume production, low-power 40-nanometer (nm) process technology.

13 Feb 2014

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Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Helps Detect Organic Dyestuffs in Renoir Masterpiece

New Report on Global Market for Scanning Probe Microscopes

Tiny Voids Within Amorphous Silicon Thin Film Solar Cell Network Reduces Solar Cell Efficiency

Method to Characterize Physical Size and Elemental Composition of Nanoparticles Wins ABC Best Paper Award

Nanoparticles Deliver Drugs to Specifically Targeted Cancer Cells

Graphene Membranes Allow Ultrafast Flow of Two Monolayers of Water

New Report on Global Market for Nanocoatings

Wet-Spun Carbon Nanotube Fiber Beats Copper in Carrying Electrical Current

Molecular Imprints to Sell Semiconductor Imprint Lithography Equipment Business to Canon

Forecast Report on Global Market for Graphene

Integran Receives 2013 SERDP Award for Development of Nanostructured Alloy for Copper-Beryllium Replacement

New NIST Technique Measures Changes in a Living Cell's Internal Redox Potential

IBM ADC Brings Together Speed and Energy Efficiency at 32 Nanometers

Localisation Microscopy Technique Selected as a Highlight of 2013

Realtek UHD Smart TV Controller SoC Implemented in UMC's 40-nm Process Technology Achieves First-Pass Silicon Success

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