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The World's Smoothest Vapor-Deposited Diamond

Advanced Diamond Technologies, Inc. (ADT), announces the introduction of UNCD® Horizon™, the world's smoothest vapor-deposited diamond, to its family of award-winning diamond products.

6 Oct 2009

The Masters of Light Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize 2009 in Physics for two scientific achievements that have helped to shape the foundations of today's networked societies. It has been awarded...

6 Oct 2009

Spray-Coated Organic Solar Cells Showed Increase Conversion Efficiency

IMEC has demonstrated a fully solution-processed organic solar cell with a spray-coated active layer and a metal top contact spray-coated on top. The resulting cell shows power conversion efficiencies above 3%, a performance comparable to organic solar cells produced by spin coating of the organic layer and vacuum evaporation of the top contact metal. This is an important step towards producing organic solar cells with cheap and large-area processes.

From IMEC 6 Oct 2009

Specially Designed Nanomaterial for Targeting, Labeling, and Killing Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

The increasing antibiotic resistance of bacteria is a serious problem of our time. Hospital germs in particular have developed strains against which practically every current antibiotic is ineffective.

5 Oct 2009

Quantum Mechanics Could Help Build Ultra-High-Res Electron Microscopes that Won't Destroy Living Cells

Electron microscopes are the most powerful type of microscope, capable of distinguishing even individual atoms. However, these microscopes cannot be used to image living cells because the electrons destroy the samples.

5 Oct 2009

Theoretical Study that Predicts Metallization of Hydrogen-Rich Mixtures at Lower Pressures

Scientists have a long and unsuccessful history of attempting to convert hydrogen to a metal by squeezing it under incredibly high and steady pressures. Metallic hydrogen is predicted to be a high-temperature superco...

5 Oct 2009

New Technique Separating Ultra-FIns Dust by Size

Limit values for fine dust emissions are based on total particle weight. It is the ultra-fine particles, however, that are particularly harmful to health. A new technique separates them by size and identifies their composition - directly where they arise.

5 Oct 2009

Health Impact of Engineered Metal and Metal Oxide Nanoparticles

CIC biomaGUNE, the Centre for Cooperative Research in Biomaterials, is to lead the European project HINAMOX, an acronym that stands for Health Impact of Engineered Metal and Metal Oxide Nanoparticles: Response, Bioimaging and Distribution at Cellular and Body Level.

5 Oct 2009

Major Adjustments to EPA's Recently Published 'Nanomaterials Research Strategy'

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has made major adjustments to its recently published 'Nanomaterials Research Strategy' that should greatly reduce the use of animals in assessing nanomaterials while impr...

5 Oct 2009

Researchers Develop Self-Referencing Optrode that Can Measure Oxygen Intake in Real Time

A fiber-optic sensor created by a team of Purdue University researchers that is capable of measuring oxygen intake rates could have broad applications ranging from plant root development to assessing the effectiveness of chemotherapy drugs.

5 Oct 2009