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New Perspective for Understanding Mechanisms of Catalytic Conversion

The oxidation of toxic carbon monoxide (CO) to carbon dioxide occurs every day in millions of cars. Despite being one of the most studied catalytic processes, the exact mechanism of interaction between the carbon monoxid...

9 Feb 2010

Researchers Develop New Pretreatment and Curing Methods for Sol-Gel Coating Process

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed new pretreatment and curing methods that can be used with the sol-gel coating process. With the new pretreatment method, the adhesion of sol-gel coatings can be impr...

9 Feb 2010

From Fossils to Nanotechnology, Student Pursues Scientific Chase

Dirty fingernails have given way to wearing gloves for Michael Christiansen, who has followed his passion for science from fossil-hunting in the field to growing nanocrystals in a research lab.

8 Feb 2010

Birthplace of Nanotechnology to Host October Symposium

In the quarter century since five men had their "Aha!" moment in Houston, the buckminsterfullerene molecule has become the vanguard of a revolution. Nanotechnology is already changing life on Planet Earth, and ...

8 Feb 2010

Nanotechnology Boosting Performance of Water-Splitting Solar Cells for Hydrogen Production

A novel strategy for engineering semiconductor materials can boost the performance of water-splitting solar cells for hydrogen production, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

8 Feb 2010

Nano-Discs Destroy Cancer Cells

Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago Medical Center are shaking up the world of materials science and cancer research on the cover of the February 2010 issue of the journal Nature Materials.

8 Feb 2010

Results Should Aid Researchers in Their Quest for Elusive Higgs Boson

In December, the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle accelerator, shattered the world record for highest energy particle collisions.

8 Feb 2010

Quantum Computing in Isotopically Engineered Diamond

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (abbreviated DFG, German Research Foundation in English) and the Japan Science and Technology Agency ( JST) are launching the research project "Quantum Computing in isotopically E...

8 Feb 2010

Recipe for Making Conductive Textile

A team of Stanford researchers is producing batteries and simple capacitors from ordinary textiles dipped in nanoparticle-infused ink. The conductive textiles - dubbed "eTextiles" - represent a new class of integrated energy storage device, born from the synthesis of prehistoric technology with cutting-edge materials science.

5 Feb 2010

IBM Researchers Demonstrate Graphene Transistor with the Highest Cut-Off Frequency

In a just-published paper in the magazine Science, IBM (NYSE: IBM) researchers demonstrated a radio-frequency graphene transistor with the highest cut-off frequency achieved so far for any graphene device - 100 billion cycles/second (100 GigaHertz).

5 Feb 2010