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Report Provides Analysis and Forecast of the Latest in Thin-Film PV Technology

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Thin Film Photovoltaics Markets: 2008 and Beyond" report to their offering. This report provides our analysis and forecast of the latest in thin-film ...

From Research and Markets 7 Jul 2008

First Ever Initiative Funded by European Commission to Analyse Nanoinformatics

From the 1st June 2008 a consortium of seven European and Latin American partners has launched ACTION-Grid, the first ever initiative funded by the European Commission to analyse and link three areas: Biomedical Informat...

7 Jul 2008

Bio-Based Materials for Photovoltaic Solar Modules Poised to Decrease Industry’s Oil Dependence

BioSolar, Inc. reports that surging oil prices have resulted in unprecedented price hikes in photovoltaic solar module manufacturing, creating substantial growth opportunities for BioSolar. The company's breakthrough...

7 Jul 2008

Biosensors Open Up New and Cost-Effective Perspectives in Patient Care

Biosensors are capable of measuring the healing process of wounds. Their integration in wound dressing materials or other medical textiles opens up new and cost-effective perspectives in patient care. In a European project directed by the CSEM Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique SA (CSEM), intensive research is being conducted in this area.

5 Jul 2008

Understanding Collisions at the Molecular Scale

Collisions have consequences. Everyone knows that. Whether it's between trains, planes, automobiles or atoms, there are always repercussions. But while macroscale collisions may have the most obvious effects-mangled steel, bruised flesh-sometimes it is the tiniest collisions that have the most resounding repercussions.

5 Jul 2008

Making IC Chips with Complex Nanotube Components on the Scale

Most innovations don't go far unless there is a way to turn them into products that are manufacturable on a mass scale. That's why new research on carbon nanotubes, presented June 19 by a group of Stanford electr...

5 Jul 2008

Influence of Oxygen on the Electrons May Explain Unusual Properties

In the emerging field of oxide electronics, electronic devices are based on oxide materials rather than conventional materials such as silicon. One of the most promising candidates for this application is the oxide semiconductor strontium titanate, SrTiO3. Now, researchers from RIKEN’s SPring-8 Center in Harima and their colleagues have uncovered fundamental properties of the electronic states in SrTiO3 that may be crucial to understanding the unusual electronic properties of this material.

4 Jul 2008

Unusual Compound Sees Hydrogen Bonded to Four Metal Atoms

RIKEN scientists, along with an international team of co-workers based in the US, UK and France, have spotted a hydrogen atom simultaneously bonding to four metal atoms, a highly unusual arrangement in this particular class of chemical compounds. The research may help to understand the structure of materials that could store hydrogen more efficiently.

4 Jul 2008

Acoustic Waves Promise to be Useful Probes of Nanostructures

Acoustic waves play many everyday roles - from communication between people to ultrasound imaging. Now the highest frequency acoustic waves in materials, with nearly atomic-scale wavelengths, promise to be useful probes of nanostructures such as LED lights.

4 Jul 2008

Report Examines Materials for Fuel Cells

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Materials for Fuel Cells" report to their offering. A fuel cell is an electrochemical device that converts the chemical energy of a reaction (between ...

4 Jul 2008

A New Way to Alter Shape and Size of Microscopic 3-D Structures

A dynamic way to alter the shape and size of microscopic three-dimensional structures built out of proteins has been developed by biological chemist Jason Shear and his former graduate student Bryan Kaehr at The Universi...

4 Jul 2008

Nanostructures at Implant Surface Enhances Bone Formation

Titanium implants were successfully introduced by P.-I. Brånemark and co-workers in 1969 for the rehabilitation of edentulous jaws. After 40 years of research and development, titanium is currently the most frequently used biomaterial in oral implantology, and titanium-based materials are often used to replace lost tissue in several parts of the body.

4 Jul 2008

Surrey Nanosystems Sell Tool for the Development of Hybrid Solar Cells

Ludwig-Maximilians University (LMU) has ordered an advanced sputtering tool from Surrey NanoSystems, to support fundamental research into the fabrication of hybrid solar cells. The tool will be used to develop pr...

From Surrey Nanosystems 4 Jul 2008

Nanotechnology Improving Shelf Life of Cans

Improved barrier protection against water and oxygen, through the ultra-sonic application of nano materials to bio degradeable films, is the focus of a $140,000 research project due for completion this September. Ultr...

3 Jul 2008

Spacecraft Take First Images of Distant Solar System with Particles

NASA's sun-focused STEREO spacecraft unexpectedly detected particles from the edge of the solar system last year, allowing University of California, Berkeley, scientists to map for the first time the energized particles in the region where the hot solar wind slams into the cold interstellar medium.

3 Jul 2008