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Sequential Passivation and Reactive Ion Etching Employed to Produce 3D Photonic Crystals

In modern telecommunications, light carries digital information over kilometers within seconds. Adapted optical materials control the light signals. In the AFM journal, researchers from Berlin, Louvain, and from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology present a method to produce photonic crystals. Their optical properties are adjusted by structures of micrometer size.

6 Oct 2012

Cullen College's Professor Receives NSF CAREER Award to Improve Zeolites

It's a perfect record for the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering, where all six of its applicants have been granted prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards for 2012.

6 Oct 2012

ON Semiconductor, imec Collaborate to Develop GaN-on-Si Power Devices

ON Semiconductor, a premier global supplier of high performance silicon solutions for energy efficient electronics, has joined the multi-partner, industrial research and development program at imec, a leading nanoelectronics research center, to collaborate on the development of next-generation Gallium Nitride (GaN) on Silicon (Si) power devices.

6 Oct 2012

Nanoprobe Inventor to Receive NJIT Overseers Award

Tonight NJIT Research Professor Reginald C. Farrow, PhD, who with his research team have discovered how to make nanoscale arrays of the world's smallest probe for investigating the electrical properties of individual living cells will receive the NJIT Board of Overseers Excellence in Research Prize and Medal.

5 Oct 2012

Mouse Genome Found to Consist of 10-nm Chromatin Fibres

Scientists in Canada and the United States have used three-dimensional imaging techniques to settle a long-standing debate about how DNA and structural proteins are packaged into chromatin fibres.

5 Oct 2012

ADI Introduces MEMS Accelerometer with Min/Max Offset Temperature Sensitivity

Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI), a global leader in high-performance semiconductors for signal processing applications, introduced today the industry’s first MEMS accelerometer with Min/Max offset sensitivity over the full temperature range.

From Analog Devices 5 Oct 2012

Precision Quantum Measurement Achieved with Weak-Measurement Techniques

Scientists who study the ultra-small world of atoms know it is impossible to make certain simultaneous measurements, for example finding out both the location and momentum of an electron, with an arbitrarily high level of precision. Because measurements disturb the system, increased certainty in the first measurement leads to increased uncertainty in the second.

5 Oct 2012

Nanoindentation Employed to Study Material Properties of Fossilized Teeth

A team of paleontologists and engineers has found that duck-billed dinosaurs had an amazing capacity to chew tough and abrasive plants with grinding teeth more complex than those of cows, horses, and other well-known modern grazers. Their study, which is published today in the journal Science, is the first to recover material properties from fossilized teeth.

5 Oct 2012

NAI Launches Nano Interface Unit for Intelligent I/O Communications

North Atlantic Industries (NAI) announces the availability of the Industry’s first integrated, compact, nano-sized subsystem with unprecedented I/O capabilities that connects to existing platform Ethernet networks, making data available to any system on the network.

5 Oct 2012

Nanotech Innovator Provides Technology for Healthier and Comfortable Body Armor

NanoMech, an international material science company and leader in nanotechnology innovation, is pleased to announce a partnership with KDH Defense Systems, Inc. to deploy technology that will keep soldiers and law enforcement professionals healthier and more comfortable through KDH’s award winning body armor.

5 Oct 2012

University of Albany's NanoCollege Expands New York Business Plan Competition for 2013

SEFCU and SUNY will serve as Title Sponsors for the 4th annual competition, with semifinal contests to be held in 10 regions across New York as student teams compete for more than $225,000 in prizes

From College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, University at Albany 4 Oct 2012

New Design Principles May Help Develop Synthetic Adhesives for Biomedical Applications

While the common house spider may be creepy, it also has been inspiring researchers to find new and better ways to develop adhesives for human applications such as wound healing and industrial-strength tape. Think about an adhesive suture strong enough to heal a fractured shoulder and that same adhesive designed with a light tackiness ideal for "ouch-free" bandages.

4 Oct 2012

Nanoparticles Selectively Release Drugs in Aged Human Cells

A team of Spanish scientists has developed an intelligent nanodevice that lays the foundations for the future development of new therapies against aging. The device consists of nanoparticles that can selectively release drugs in aged human cells. Its potential future use ranges from the treatment of diseases involving tissue or cellular degeneration such as cancer, Alzheimer's or Parkinson's, among others, to accelerated aging disorders (progeria).

4 Oct 2012

Researchers to Study Quantum Metamaterials

Through a new Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) awarded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, researchers from Brown University will lead an effort to study new optical materials and their interactions with light quantum scale. The initiative, titled Quantum Metaphotonics and Quantum Metamaterials, will receive $4.5 million over three years, with a possible two-year extension.

4 Oct 2012

Nanobots Offer Potential Cure for Cancer

As Quantum International Corp. (OTCBB: QUAN) explores the potential of tiny nanobots to revolutionize medicine, new robotics breakthroughs could soon pave the way for a potential cure for cancer.

4 Oct 2012