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Research Breakthrough Could Lead to Superconducting Materials that Work at Room Temperature

MIT physicists have taken a step toward understanding the puzzling nature of high-temperature superconductors, materials that conduct electricity with no resistance at temperatures well above absolute zero. If superco...

13 Feb 2008

Infrared Technique for Examining Thin Films and Solid-Solid Interfaces to Have Substatial Importance in Nanoscience

The Springer journal Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry (ABC) has chosen the Austrian chemist Thomas Lummerstorfer as the recipient of its Best Paper Award 2007. Lummerstorfer’s paper “Monolayers at solid...

13 Feb 2008

Nanomagnets Developed for use in Industrial Applications Including Hard Drives and Data Storage

It is well known that current technology tends to design tools that are ever smaller and that nanotechnology, although it its infancy, is a theme that is very much in fashion in our society. Who has not heard of nanot...

13 Feb 2008

Electrical Conductivity of Carbon Nanotubes Set by Just One Electron

A research team from the department of condensed matter physics of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid working in collaboration with the research group lead by professor Christian Schoenenberger at the Basilea univer...

13 Feb 2008

Solar Energy Conversion Efficiency Record Smashed by Sandia and Stirling Energy Systems

Sandia National Laboratories and Stirling Energy Systems (SES) have set a new solar-to-grid system conversion efficiency record by achieving a 31.25 percent net efficiency rate.

From Sandia National Laboratories 13 Feb 2008

Better Understanding of How the Brain Works to Lead from Lab-On-A-Chip that Copies Brain Chemistry

Johns Hopkins researchers from the Whiting School of Engineering and the School of Medicine have devised a micro-scale tool - a lab on a chip - designed to mimic the chemical complexities of the brain. The system should ...

13 Feb 2008

Improving and Refining Water Cleaning Technology with Nanofilters and Bacteria

Bacteria often get bad press, with those found in water often linked to illness and disease. But researchers at The University of Nottingham are using these tiny organisms alongside the very latest membrane filtration te...

13 Feb 2008

Nominations Open for Entries in the Nano 50 Award of the Best Technology, Innovations and Companies in Nanotechnology

Nominations are open for the annual Nano 50 awards competition. The Nano 50 recognizes the top 50 technologies, innovators, and products with the greatest potential to advance the commercialization of nanotechnology.

13 Feb 2008

Infrared Spectroscopy of Nanomaterials Work Wins Best Paper 2007 Award

Research work using infrared spectroscopy to examine monolayers at solid-solid interfaces wins author Best Paper 2007 Award.

13 Feb 2008

Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Delivered by NanoDynamics to US Army as Part of Solution to Mid Range Power Requirements

NanoDynamics, Inc. announced today its delivery of a 50-watt solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC), powered by desulfurized synthetic JP-8 fuel, to the Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center&rsquo...

12 Feb 2008

Sustaining the Environment with Nanotechnology, Nobel Laureate Gives University of Sydney Presentation

Nobel Laureate Heinrich Rohrer will deliver a talk in the Vice-Chancellor's public lecture series this Thursday, 14 February, in the Great Hall at the University of Sydney. Dr Rohrer, a Swiss physicist, will discu...

12 Feb 2008

Nanotechnology Business Leaders to Meet With Key Legislators in Washington, D.C

The NanoBusiness Alliance, the world's leading nanotechnology trade association, today announced that many of its members will converge in Washington, D.C. from February 26 - 28 for its annual Public Policy Tour. As ...

12 Feb 2008

Wisconsin Calles for a State Registry of Nanoscale Materials, What is Being Produced and in What Quantities

Growing concern over the potential risks that nanotechnology might pose to the environment and human health have some lawmakers and state agencies looking into how they might regulate the technology, which is already bei...

12 Feb 2008

Maximising Copper Computer Chip Connections for High Speed Computing

Scanning electron microscope image of two copper pillars bonded together using a novel fabrication technique. Placing these all-copper connections between computer chips and external circuitry will lead to increased computing speeds.

12 Feb 2008

Micro Pharmacy from MIT Delivers Controlled Drug Doses to Specific Targets

A new thin-film coating developed at MIT can deliver controlled drug doses to specific targets in the body following implantation, essentially serving as a “micro pharmacy.” The film could eventually be us...

12 Feb 2008

Nanotechnology News

Research Breakthrough Could Lead to Superconducting Materials that Work at Room Temperature

Infrared Technique for Examining Thin Films and Solid-Solid Interfaces to Have Substatial Importance in Nanoscience

Nanomagnets Developed for use in Industrial Applications Including Hard Drives and Data Storage

Electrical Conductivity of Carbon Nanotubes Set by Just One Electron

Solar Energy Conversion Efficiency Record Smashed by Sandia and Stirling Energy Systems

Better Understanding of How the Brain Works to Lead from Lab-On-A-Chip that Copies Brain Chemistry

Improving and Refining Water Cleaning Technology with Nanofilters and Bacteria

Nominations Open for Entries in the Nano 50 Award of the Best Technology, Innovations and Companies in Nanotechnology

Infrared Spectroscopy of Nanomaterials Work Wins Best Paper 2007 Award

Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Delivered by NanoDynamics to US Army as Part of Solution to Mid Range Power Requirements

Sustaining the Environment with Nanotechnology, Nobel Laureate Gives University of Sydney Presentation

Nanotechnology Business Leaders to Meet With Key Legislators in Washington, D.C

Wisconsin Calles for a State Registry of Nanoscale Materials, What is Being Produced and in What Quantities

Maximising Copper Computer Chip Connections for High Speed Computing

Micro Pharmacy from MIT Delivers Controlled Drug Doses to Specific Targets

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