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Nanopores-Filled Diatomite Aids Development of Next-Generation Insulation Materials

Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory researcher is working on the development of next-generation insulation materials for applications in buildings, freezers, refrigerated trucks and other cooling and heating devices.

2 Dec 2014

EV Group Dedicates NILPhotonics Competence Center for Nanoimprint Lithography Solutions

EV Group (EVG), a leading supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor markets, today announced that it has established the NILPhotonics™ Competence Center, which is designed to assist customers in leveraging EVG's suite of nanoimprint lithography (NIL) solutions to enable new and enhanced products and applications in the field of photonics.

2 Dec 2014

Bruker Introduces NanoForce Nanoindenting and Nanomechanical Testing System

At the 2014 MRS Fall Meeting and Exhibit, Bruker today introduced the NanoForce Nanoindenting and Nanomechanical Testing System to enable new discoveries in nanoscience. Nanomaterials are now found not only in research but increasingly in the product design cycle, and are playing a prominent role in industry.

2 Dec 2014

Breakthrough Technology Holds Potential to Create 2-D Monolayers of Different Materials

At Trinity College Dublin Professor Jonathan Coleman and his team are creating a ‘gateway technology’ in material science that, if successful, will open the door to a host of industrial applications.

2 Dec 2014

Novel Surface Texture Repels All Liquids

A pair of researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has created the first surface texture that can repel all liquids, no matter what material the surface is made of.

From University of California, Los Angeles 28 Nov 2014

Researchers Fabricate Innovative Material using Graphene and Tungsten Disulfide

Researchers at the University of Kansas (KU) have fabricated a new material using single atomic layers of graphene and tungsten disulfide.

27 Nov 2014

Easier Methodology to Realize High Performance Flexible Electronics

Flexible electronics have been touted as the next generation in electronics in various areas, ranging from consumer electronics to bio-integrated medical devices.

27 Nov 2014

Fabrication of Nanoporous Metals Through Cost-Effective Technique

Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have presented a new technique on inexpensively and efficiently fabricating nanoporous metals at varying scales, from nanoscale to macroscale. Nanoporous metals are foam-like substances consisting of air vacuum to a certain extent and a large surface area for efficient transfer of electrons. These metals facilitate more number of sites for analyte adsorption.

From Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 27 Nov 2014

A*STAR’s Flexure-Based Electromagnetic Linear Actuator Wins Prestigious R&D Award

A Flexure-Based Electromagnetic Linear Actuator (FELA) developed by the Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech), a research institute of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), is the only locally-developed innovation featured in the 2014 R&D 100 Awards, an international competition that recognises the 100 most technologically-significant products introduced into the marketplace over the past year.

26 Nov 2014

X-FAB Honored with MEMS Foundry of the Year Award

X-FAB MEMS Foundry today announced it received the “MEMS Foundry of the Year” award at the Best in MEMS & Sensors Innovation Awards ceremony, as part of the MEMS Industry Group’s 10th annual MEMS Executive Congress® held in Scottsdale, Arizona last week.

21 Nov 2014