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Safe Work Australia Release 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 Healt...

10 Nov 2009

Exciting Prospects for Plasmonic-Based Sensing, Imaging and Communications

Sensors, communications devices and imaging equipment that use a prism and a special form of light -- a surface plasmon-polariton -- may incorporate multiple channels or redundant applications if manufacturers use sculpt...

10 Nov 2009

$3Million to Search for Nanoscale Materials that are Superconducting

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

New Transistor Design May Lead to Faster and More Compact Circuits and Computer Chips

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

New Kind of AFM Probe Produces Batter Images and Manipulates at the Nanoscale

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

Self Assembly with Nanotubes Exploits Remakable Properties of Carbon Nanotubes

In work that someday may lead to the development of novel types of nanoscale electronic devices, an interdisciplinary team of researchers at the California Institute of Technology has combined DNA's talent for self-assembly with the remarkable electronic properties of carbon nanotubes, thereby suggesting a solution to the long-standing problem of organizing carbon nanotubes into nanoscale electronic circuits.

10 Nov 2009

New Technique for Manufacturing 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.

10 Nov 2009

Breakthrough Leads to Environmentally Friendly Production for Chemicals and Fuels

The catalytic processes that facilitate the production of many chemicals and fuels could become much more environmentally friendly thanks to a breakthrough achieved by researchers from Lehigh and Rice Universities. I...

From HORIBA 10 Nov 2009

Eminent Solar Researcher Collaborates with Quantasol on Super Efficient Solar Cells

A pioneer in solar power in the 1990s before it became "sexy," University of Houston Professor Alex Freundlich recently entered into a collaborative research agreement with U.K.-based start-up QuantaSol for the...

10 Nov 2009

Solution Deposited Beta Alumina May Have Important Applications in Transistor Technology

Johns Hopkins materials scientists have found a new use for a chemical compound that has traditionally been viewed as an electrical conductor, a substance that allows electricity to flow through it. By orienting the compound in a different way, the researchers have turned it into a thin film insulator, which instead blocks the flow of electricity, but can induce large electric currents elsewhere. The material, called solution-deposited beta-alumina, could have important applications in transistor technology and in devices such as electronic books.

10 Nov 2009

The Optimal Shape for Nanoparticles to Target Cancer

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...

10 Nov 2009

Bose-Einstein Condensates of Strontium Atoms Created for the First Time

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.

10 Nov 2009

Thin Copper and Silver Films Designed to Kill Bacteria

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...

10 Nov 2009

Simple Way to Grow Graphene Electrical Devices

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

10 Nov 2009

Renishaw Extends Its Range of Machine Tool Testing and Calibration Systems

Renishaw has extended its market leading range of machine tool testing and calibration systems, with AxiSet™ Check-Up, a new cost-effective solution for checking the alignment and positioning performance of rotary axes. In just a few minutes, users of five-axis machining centres and multi-tasking mill-turn machines can now identify and report on poor machine alignments and geometry that can cause extended process setting times, as well as non-conforming parts.

From Renishaw plc - Spectroscopy 10 Nov 2009