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Research May Lead to New Ways to Move or Position Single Molecules

A group of Marshall University researchers and their colleagues in Japan are conducting research that may lead to new ways to move or position single molecules-a necessary step if man someday hopes to build molecular machines or other devices capable of working at very small scales.

2 Feb 2010

New Approach Making Synthesis of Hydrogen Fuel Storage Materials Less Complicated

An international team of researchers has identified a new theoretical approach that may one day make the synthesis of hydrogen fuel storage materials less complicated and improve the thermodynamics and reversibility of the system.

2 Feb 2010

ADA to Utilize Firm's Nanotechnology Expertise to Develop UAV Wing Skins

ADA Technologies, Inc. received a $100,000 contract from the United States Air Force to conduct early stage research on a new method of creating a wing skin for use on morphing unmanned air vehicles (UAVs). Much like...

2 Feb 2010

Nanowires for a New Chip Architecture

Nowadays, a myriad of silicon transistors are responsible to pass on the information on a microchip. The transistors are arranged in a planar array, i.e. lying flat next to each other, and have shrunk down already to a size of only about 50 nanometers (1 nanometer = 1 millionth part of 1 millimeter).

2 Feb 2010

Method for Treating Surface of Nanoparticles Greatly Improves Efficiency of Organic Solar Cells

Scientists at the Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK) and the Freiburg Materials Research Center (FMF) have succeeded in developing a method for treating the surface of nanoparticles which greatly improves the efficiency of organic solar cells.

2 Feb 2010

Observing Chemical Exchange Processes in Ultracold Sample of Cesium Atoms and Feshbach Molecules

Considerable progresses made in controlling quantum gases open up a new avenue to study chemical processes. Rudolf Grimm's research team has now succeeded in directly observing chemical exchange processes in an ultracold sample of cesium atoms and Feshbach molecules. They report on their findings in the journal Physical Review Letters.

2 Feb 2010