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Nanotechnology Enabled Sensors to Guide Bat Inspired Robot Spy Plane

A six-inch robotic spy plane modeled after a bat would gather data from sights, sounds and smells in urban combat zones and transmit information back to a soldier in real time.

14 Mar 2008

Carbon Nanotubes to be Incorporated into Thin Film Solar Cells

Unidym, Inc, a majority-owned subsidiary of Arrowhead Research Corporation, announced that it has entered into a joint development agreement with Nippon Kayaku, to integrate Unidym's printable transparent electrodes ...

13 Mar 2008

Thin Film Thermoelectric Technology Used in Micro Thermal Electricity Generator

Micropelt GmbH, manufacturer of thin-film thermoelectric chip-like devices, announces the TE-Power-Bolt, a voltage adjustable thermal battery that uses excess heat to generate electrical energy for devices that consume only a few milliwatts (mW) of power, such as wireless sensor nodes.

12 Mar 2008

Using Nanotechnology to Mimic Photosynthesis to Make Oxygen by Water Oxidation Catalysis

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Institute for Molecular Science in Japan are trying to mimic part of the complex natural process of photosynthesis with the goal of making non-polluting fuels such as hydrogen, for example, for use in fuel cells. In the March 10, 2008, web release of the journal Inorganic Chemistry containing a Forum on "Making Oxygen," the scientists report they were able to mimic the "water oxidation catalysis" that occurs in natural photosynthesis.

11 Mar 2008

Environmentally Safe and Friendly Nanoparticles to be Launched into Solar Cells, Nanotechnology Based Lighting and Security Devices

Voxtel is set to announce its entry into the business of manufacturing
“green” semiconductor and metal-oxide nanocrystals for a wide variety customer applications, including:
photovoltaic solar cells, electro-luminescent lighting, anti-counterfeiting taggants, and security
inks.

7 Mar 2008

Eco Friendly Solar Cells to be Painted onto Steel Cladding for Buildings

Researchers at Swansea University are developing a new, eco-friendly technology that could generate as much electricity as 50 wind farms. Dr Dave Worsley, a Reader in the Materials Research Centre at the University&#3...

7 Mar 2008

Call for Papers Issued for nanoTX USA '08 Conference and Expo

Call for Papers, Abstracts for nanoTX USA '08, due April 30, 2008. Presentations should contain current results from investigations, new theories and planned investigations, and be 20 minutes in length including Q&am...

6 Mar 2008

World's Largest Solar Conference Is Coming to America

Solar Promotion International GmbH, Freiburg Management und Marketing International GmbH (FMMI) and Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) announce the debut of the Intersolar North America exhibition...

6 Mar 2008

Real Time Observation of Biological Electron Transfer

Two research teams led by Dr. Michael Verkhovsky and Prof. Mårten Wikström of the Institute of Biotechnology of the University of Helsinki have for the first time succeeded in monitoring electron transfer by Co...

4 Mar 2008

Secrets of How Plants Build Cell Walls to Benefit Nanotechnology and BioFuels

When plant cells divide, they assemble molecular building blocks into new cell walls made of carbohydrate and protein, but scientists know almost nothing about how this process occurs. A team of researchers including Mau...

28 Feb 2008