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Researchers Making Progress in Developing New Types of Transistors

Purdue University researchers are making progress in developing a new type of transistor that uses a finlike structure instead of the conventional flat design, possibly enabling engineers to create faster and more compact circuits and computer chips.

10 Nov 2009

Researchers Develop New Kind of AFM Probe

Researchers at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University have developed, characterized, and modeled a new kind of probe used in atomic force microscopy (AFM), which images, measur...

10 Nov 2009

Argonne Scientists Refine Technique to Manufacture Solar Cells

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have refined a technique to manufacture solar cells by creating tubes of semiconducting material and then "growing" polymers directly inside them. The method has the potential to be significantly cheaper than the process used to make today's commercial solar cells.

From Argonne National Laboratory 10 Nov 2009

Nanostructured Interfaces for Therapeutic Delivery

Of the many characteristic traits a drug can have, one of the most desirable is the ability for a drug to be swallowed and absorbed into the bloodstream through the gut. Some drugs, like over-the-counter aspirin, lend th...

9 Nov 2009

Researchers Find Reliable, Mess-Free Way to Grow Graphene

Single layers of carbon atoms, called graphene sheets, are lightweight, strong, electrically semi-conducting -- and notoriously difficult and expensive to make.

9 Nov 2009

Thin Films of Silver and Copper Cutting Down on Hospital Infections

Dana Filoti of the University of New Hampshire will present thin films of silver and copper she has developed that can kill bacteria and may one day help to cut down on hospital infections. The antimicrobial properties o...

9 Nov 2009

Once the World Leader in Discovery and Growth of Crystalline Materials is Now Falling Behind Other Nations

According to a recent report by the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences, the United States, once the world leader in the discovery and growth of crystalline materials, is now falling behind othe...

9 Nov 2009

Cooling Strontium Could Lead to Increasingly Precise Clocks, Quantum Computers and Ultracold Chemistry

Two independent teams have, for the first time, created Bose-Einstein condensates of strontium atoms. The ability to cool strontium to very low temperatures and control its motion could lead to increasingly precise clocks and may advance our progress toward quantum computers and novel experiments in ultracold chemistry.

9 Nov 2009

Professor Wins 'EPSRC Journal of the Royal Society Interface Award' for Microbubble Research

To celebrate its fifth year of publication, Journal of the Royal Society Interface in conjunction with the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) honoured the best research article published in the journal at an awards ceremony in London on 6th November.

9 Nov 2009

Best Shape to Use for Man-Made Nanoparticles that Target Cancers

Eric Shaqfeh studies blood at Stanford University, using computer models that simulate how the fluid and the cells it contains move around. On November 11 at a meeting of the scientific society AVS, he will present his l...

9 Nov 2009