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GoNano Secure Grant to Continue Development of Nanospring Materials

National Science Foundation awarded a Phase I SBIR grant in the amount of $147,095 to GoNano Technologies, Inc., a Moscow, Idaho-based nanotechnology company specializing in the development of high surface area Nanosprin...

25 Jul 2010

Leading Players Present at 2010 Symposium on Optoelectronic Materials and Devices

On July 12 and 13, 2010, experts from across the solar photovoltaics, infrared (IR) photovoltaics and light emitting diode (LED) disciplines met to review and discuss recent progress and future trends in the rapidly adva...

23 Jul 2010

Eco-Friendly Way for Mass Production of Graphene Oxide

"We can make you and we can break you." If Rice University scientists wrote country songs, their ode to graphene oxide would start something like that. But this song wouldn't break anybody's heart. A new paper fr...

23 Jul 2010

New Advanced Cooling Technology for Electronics Uses Carbon Nanotubes

Researchers have shown that an advanced cooling technology being developed for high-power electronics in military and automotive systems is capable of handling roughly 10 times the heat generated by conventional computer chips.

23 Jul 2010

Scientists Study Effects of X-Ray Free Electron Laser Beam on Nitrogen Gas

Scientists for the first time have dived into the effect that an intense X-ray free electron laser (XFEL) has on materials. Using the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) facility at the SLAC National Accelerator Labora...

23 Jul 2010

Novel Technique to Grow Membranes of Binary Nanocrystal Superlattices

Collaboration by chemists, physicists and materials scientists at the University of Pennsylvania has created a simple and inexpensive method to rapidly grow centimeter-scale membranes of binary nanocrystal superlattices, or BNSLs, by crystallizing a mixture of nanocrystals on a liquid surface.

23 Jul 2010

New Process to Seperate Nanometric Particles from Sewage

We live in the age of dynamic development of various nanotechnologies. A side effect of their popularisation is the fact that more and more nanometric structures get into the environment. Many of these structures are very dangerous for man.

23 Jul 2010

Unique Collaboration Between Music and Physics

As icons go, Albert Einstein was one of a kind - making so many remarkable contributions to so many different areas of physics. But in addition to his scientific achievements, much is made of Einstein's colourful...

23 Jul 2010

Step Toward Reliable Mass Production of Semiconductor Nanowires

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have cultivated many thousands of nanocrystals in what looks like a pinscreen or "pin art" on silicon, a step toward reliable mass production of semiconductor nanowires for millionths-of-a-meter-scale devices such as sensors and lasers.

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 22 Jul 2010

New Book on Supramolecular Chemistry of Hybrid Nanomaterials

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/e6ba6f/the_supramolecular) has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new book "The Supramolecular Chemistry of Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Mater...

22 Jul 2010