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Georgia Tech Awarded U.S. Air Force Center of Excellence to Design Nanostructures for Energy and Adaptive Materials

The Georgia Institute of Technology has been awarded a U.S. Air Force Center of Excellence to design nanostructures for energy harvesting and adaptive materials, and to develop tools to optimize critical cognitive processes of the modern warfighter.

1 Dec 2009

New Way to Introduce Magnetic Impurities in a Semiconductor Crystal

Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Naval Research Laboratory have developed a new way to introduce magnetic impurities in a semiconductor crystal by prodding it with a scanning tunneling microscope (STM).

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 1 Dec 2009

New Research Offers Clues to How Shells Grow in Nature

Single crystals of the mineral calcite -- the chief material in limestone -- are predictable, homogeneous and, well, a little boring. But scientists have long marveled at how biological crystals of calcite grow together with other organic materials to form, for example, shells and sea urchin spines.

30 Nov 2009

First Demonstration of High-Temperature Stability in Metallic Nanoparticles

A University of Pittsburgh team overcame a major hurdle plaguing the development of nanomaterials such as those that could lead to more efficient catalysts used to produce hydrogen and render car exhaust less toxic. The ...

30 Nov 2009

Improving Environmental Management of Nanoparticle Wastes from Foods, Medicines and Personal Care Products

A new discovery about nanoparticle behaviour in sewage treatment plants could improve the environmental management of nanoparticle wastes from foods, cosmetics, medicines, cleaners and personal care products.

29 Nov 2009

Finding May Offer New Ways to Explore Quantum Chromodynamics

An experiment has confirmed that spinons, particle-like magnetic excitations, can be confined in a magnetic insulator similar to the way elementary quarks are confined within individual protons and neutrons. The finding,...

From Brookhaven National Laboratory 29 Nov 2009

Phenomenon Known From Particle Theory Observed for First Time in Condensed Matter

The concept of confinement is one of the central ideas in modern physics. The most famous example is that of quarks which bind together to form protons and neutrons. Now Prof. Bella Lake from Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin tog...

29 Nov 2009

Company to Initiate Water-Soluble Carbon Nanotube-Based Cancer Drug Delivery System in India

Cromoz Inc., located in Research Triangle Park, will initiate water-soluble carbon nanotube-based cancer drug delivery system in Hyderabad, India. The water-soluble carbon nanotubes, which have functional groups on the w...

27 Nov 2009

Producing Smaller and Cheaper Digital Memories using Multiferroic compounds

Is it possible to make even more compact digital memories for portable electronic devices and which consume even less energy? A team of CNRS and CEA researchers has recently demonstrated that it is feasible, thanks to a new class of materials known as multiferroics, which combine unusual electric and magnetic properties.

27 Nov 2009

Grant Allows Researchers to Explore Non-Covalent Synthesis of Functional Supramolecular Systems

The European Research Council (ERC) of the European Union has awarded prof. dr. Bert Meijer of the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the Netherlands an Advanced Grant of two million Euros. This grant will allo...

27 Nov 2009