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Silicon-Germanium Microelectronics Reduces Spacecraft Weight

Space environments can deliver a beating to spacecraft electronics. For decades, satellites and other spacecraft have used bulky and expensive shielding to protect vital microelectronics-microprocessors and other integrated circuits-from space radiation.

28 Sep 2009

Center Focuses on How Advancements in Nanotechnology can Address Growing Energy Needs

Researchers at Purdue's Birck Nanotechnology Center are collaborating with Indian colleagues at the Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research and General Electric Co.'s John F. Welch India Technology Center to launch a center focused on how advancements in nanomaterials can address growing energy needs.

28 Sep 2009

Handbook of Fillers Examines Nanotechnology Potential of Fillers

ChemTec Publishing's new edition of the Handbook of Fillers gives direct comparison of general purpose fillers (micron-size fillers) and nanofillers. Over 3,000 research papers, mostly published from 1994 to 2009 (ov...

28 Sep 2009

Researchers Successfully Develop Artificial Pore using Nanotechnology

Using an RNA-powered nanomotor, University of Cincinnati (UC) biomedical engineering researchers have successfully developed an artificial pore able to transmit nanoscale material through a membrane. In a study led by...

28 Sep 2009

Overcoming One of Significant Research Challenges Facing Electrochemists

Scientists at The University of Nottingham have overcome one of the significant research challenges facing electrochemists. For the first time they have found a way of probing right into the heart of an electrochemical r...

28 Sep 2009

Simple Way to Improve Semiconducting Properties of World's Thinnest Material

Writing in the Letters section of Nature Physics, researchers from the University of Manchester, the Institute of Materials Science in Madrid and the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands report that simply stretchin...

28 Sep 2009

IBM Fellow Changed the Course of Nanotechnology Research Twenty Years Ago

On this day in 1989, IBM Fellow Don Eigler became the first person in history to move and control an individual atom. Shortly thereafter, on November 11 of that year, Eigler and his team used a custom-built microscope to spell out the letters IBM (NYSE: IBM) with 35 xenon atoms.

28 Sep 2009

Exploiting the Benefits of Nanotechnology

At SINTEF scientist both exploit the benefits of the nanotechnology and try to discover how tiny particles could behave hazardous in nature.

28 Sep 2009

Rather than Reducing Disorder, Physicists Find Way to Simply Move it Somewhere Else

Physicists are continually reaching new lows as they reduce the temperatures of samples in their laboratories. But even nano-kelvins are not low enough to overcome the entropy (a measure of the disorder in a system) that stands between them and the discovery of exotic states of ultra-cold matter.

28 Sep 2009

Using Nanotechnology to Develop Microchip Sensitive Enough to Determine Cancer Type

U of T researchers have used nanomaterials to develop a microchip sensitive enough to quickly determine the type and severity of a patient's cancer so that the disease can be detected earlier for more effective treat...

28 Sep 2009