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High-Resolution Patterns for Miniaturizing Devices can be Achieved Using Modified Fabrication Materials

Zong and co-workers mixed metallic nanoparticles into commercially available resists to make them semimetallic; this enabled the resists to be patterned at a much higher resolution than achieved previously.

10 Nov 2009

Nitrogen Atom-Directed Ortho-Lithiation Aids Preparation of Anti-HIV Drug

Nitrogen heterocycles-chemical compounds formed from a ring of carbon atoms into which nitrogen atoms have been incorporated-are one of the most important classes of organic molecules, and are ubiquitous in both natural and man-made molecules.

10 Nov 2009

The First Material Technology to Enhance the Safety of Lithium-Ion Batteries

ITRI (Industrial Technology Research Institute), Taiwan's largest and one of the world's leading high-tech research and development institutions, introduces STOBA (self-terminated oligomers with hyper-branched architecture), the first material technology to enhance the safety of lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries.

10 Nov 2009

Engineers Determine Why Transistors Made of Organic Crystals Don't Perform Well

Electronic devices can't work well unless all of the transistors, or switches, within them allow electrical current to flow easily when they are turned on. A team of engineers has determined why some transistors made of organic crystals don't perform well, yielding ideas about how to make them work better.

10 Nov 2009

Nanotechnology Professor Wins 2009 SES Young Investigator Award

Nanomaterials expert Nikhil Koratkar, professor of mechanical, aerospace, and nuclear engineering at Rensselaer, has won the 2009 SES Young Investigator Award from the Electrochemical Society (ECS) Division of Fullerenes, Carbon Nanotubes and Nanostructures.

10 Nov 2009

Safe Work Australia Council Releases Research Reports on Engineered Nanomaterials

Chair of the Safe Work Australia Council, Mr Tom Phillips AM, today announced the release of two research reports on engineered nanomaterials. These reports were published as part of the Nanotechnology Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Program, which is managed by Safe Work Australia for the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research.

10 Nov 2009

The Search for Nanoscale Materials that Superconduct

Clemson University is part of a five-year $3 million Air Force Office of Scientific Research award, along with the University of Texas at Dallas and Yale University, to search for nanoscale materials that superconduct to...

10 Nov 2009

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