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Innovative Way of Making Nanomaterials Resulted in Advanced Materials with Exceptional Optical Properties

An innovative and inexpensive way of making nanomaterials on a large scale has resulted in novel forms of advanced materials that pave the way for exceptional and unexpected optical properties. The new fabrication techni...

8 Oct 2007

Laser Emission from a Single Artificial Atom Achieved by Japanese Researchers

RIKEN, NEC Corporation, and JST (“Japan Science and Technology Agency”) have successfully demonstrated a laser emission from one artificial atom by coupling superconducting quantum bits (“qubits”)...

4 Oct 2007

Connexion Deploying Corning's Bend Insensitive Optical Fiber

Corning Cable Systems, part of Corning Incorporated's Telecommunications segment, announces that Connexion Technologies is deploying products from Corning's revolutionary ClearCurve™ product suite in a West...

4 Oct 2007

University fo Delaware Wins $7 Million to Develop Next Generation Neutron Scattering Instrumentation

The University of Delaware has won a competitive award of more than $7 million over a five-year period from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and will use it to develop the next generation of neu...

4 Oct 2007

Lafarge Inaugurate New Concrete Research Facility

Lafarge is today inaugurating a new technological building dedicated to innovation in concrete at its research center in L’Isle d’Abeau, near Lyons, the world’s largest building materials research facil...

4 Oct 2007

Plastic Electronics Centre Launch New Web Site

PETeC is a national prototyping institute for the development and commercialisation of printed electronics. Customers of the centre will be able to test design concepts and novel materials for a variety of products inclu...

3 Oct 2007

Using Carbon Nanotubes to Detect and Repair Cracks in Polymer Composites

Adding even a small amount of carbon nanotubes can go a long way toward enhancing the strength, integrity, and safety of plastic materials widely used in engineering applications, according to a new study. Researcher...

1 Oct 2007

NIST Debuts Superconducting Quantum Computing Cable

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have transferred information between two “artificial atoms” by way of electronic vibrations on a microfabricated aluminum cable, demonst...

From NIST Standard Reference Materials 1 Oct 2007

Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials Heads UOW's 5-Star Good Universities Guide Award

The independent Good Universities Guide earlier this year awarded the University of Wollongong a maximum five-stars for ‘research intensivity’ and that finding has now been reinforced with the Federal Governm...

1 Oct 2007

Modern Semiconductors Morph with Nanomachines

With the help of a device capable of depositing metals an atom at a time in the materials used in computer chips, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers has successfully blended modern semiconductor technolo...

28 Sep 2007

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