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Strain on Nanowires Could Yield Colossal Results

In finally answering an elusive scientific question, researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have shown that the selective placement of strain can alter the electronic phase and its spatial arrangement in correlated electron materials.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 13 Sep 2009

Artificial Nose for General Detection of Toxic Industrial Chemicals

Kenneth Suslick and his team at the University of Illinois have developed an artificial nose for the general detection of toxic industrial chemicals (TICs) that is simple, fast and inexpensive – and works by visualizing odors.

13 Sep 2009

New Look at the Way Nanoparticles are Selected When Studying Impacts on Human Health and Environment

A new analysis by an international team of researchers from the Center for the Environmental Implications of NanoTechnology (CEINT), based at Duke University, argues for a new look at the way nanoparticles are selected when studying the potential impacts on human health and the environment.

13 Sep 2009

New Light on Operational Principles of Polymer Solar Cells

Researchers from the Eindhoven University of Technology and the University of Ulm have made the first high-resolution 3D images of the inside of a polymer solar cell. This gives them important new insights in the nanoscale structure of polymer solar cells and its effect on the performance.

13 Sep 2009

NIU Physicist Awarded $486,000 to Investigate Superconductivity at the Nanoscale

The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded NIU Physicist Zhili Xiao a three-year grant totaling $486,000 to continue his investigations of superconductivity at the nanoscale.

11 Sep 2009

A*STAR's SERC Awarded S$12.2m to Fund 17 Research Projects Including Nanotechnology

A*STAR's Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) awarded S$12.2m to fund 17 research projects in the areas of media + entertainment, medical technologies, education, water, infocomm, chemicals, energy and ele...

10 Sep 2009

Professor's "Metamaterials" Research Featured on Cover of Nature Physics

Dr. Dentcho Genov, an assistant professor of physics and electrical engineering at Louisiana Tech University and a Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI) Institute fellow, is featured on the cover of the most recent issue of Nature Physics, one of the most respected and prestigious physics journals in the world.

10 Sep 2009

New Technique for Growing Carbon Nanotubes Should be Easier to Integrate with Existing Semiconductor Manufacturing Processes

MIT materials scientists have developed a new technique for growing carbon nanotubes that could replace the vertical wires in chips, permitting denser packing of circuits. Source: "Low Temperature Synthesis of Ve...

10 Sep 2009

UTSA Receives NSF to Study Nanomaterials and Their Biomedical Applications

The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) has received a five-year, $2.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study nanomaterials and their biomedical applications. The NSF grant, called a Part...

10 Sep 2009

New Way to Deliver Drugs into Cancer Cells using Nanotechnology

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have developed a new way to deliver drugs into cancer cells by exposing them briefly to a non-harmful laser. Their results are published in a recent article in ACS Nano, a journal of the American Chemical Society.

10 Sep 2009