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Pennsylvania NanoMaterials Commercialization Center Accepting Proposals for Product Development Projects

The Pennsylvania NanoMaterials Commercialization Center has announced its third call for proposals from companies throughout Pennsylvania to apply for grants available for the development of nano-related products. The...

24 Dec 2007

Research Heads Toward New Class of High Temperature Superconductors

Fifty years after the Nobel-prize winning explanation of how superconductors work, a research team from Los Alamos National Laboratory, the University of Edinburgh and Cambridge University are suggesting another mechanis...

21 Dec 2007

Spin Excitations May Explain What Binds Electrons During High Temperature Superconductivity

A team of Boston College researchers led by Asst. Prof. Vidya Madhavan (Physics) has identified an alternative explanation for the microscopic origins of the “glue” that binds electrons during high-temperatur...

21 Dec 2007

Quantum Chemical Methods Being Investigated for New Drug Development

New research, led by a Virginia Tech chemist, may someday help natural-products chemists decrease by years the amount of time it takes for the development of certain types of medicinal drugs. The research by T. Daniel Cr...

21 Dec 2007

Porous Metal Foam Makes Great Shape Changing Metal Alloy, Magnetic Shape Memory Foams

In the world of commercial materials, lighter and cheaper is usually better, especially when those attributes are coupled with superior strength and special properties, such as a material's ability to remember its or...

21 Dec 2007

Gecko Glue a Step Closer with Release of Another Super Sticky Research Paper

Velcro, Superglue and Post-It Notes… Three things that started out as obscure inventions but are now indispensable for everyday life. So what will the next idea to stick with modern society look like" The ans...

21 Dec 2007

Human Genetic Variation Named as Science "Breakthrough of the Year"

In 2007, researchers were dazzled by the degree to which genomes differ from one human to another and began to understand the role of these variations in disease and personal traits. Science and its publisher, AAAS, the ...

21 Dec 2007

Concept Store Introduces Rapid Prototyping Machine

Three dimensional nanomanufacturing has now hit the market in time for Christmas. The MAKE blog is reporting that the UMBRA Concept Store is equipped with a 3D replicator for producing rapid prototypes of new designs. ...

21 Dec 2007

Experts Work Together to Develop Next Generation MEMS Devices

Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are tiny components etched from silicon. Production is extremely complex, sometimes with hundreds of steps, each with dozens of parameters. One European project has developed softwar...

21 Dec 2007

Grant to Develop More Efficient Solar Cells

The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded a grant of up to $768,000 over three years to Adam Moule, assistant professor of chemical engineering and materials science at UC Davis, for work toward cheaper, more efficient s...

20 Dec 2007

UCLA Scientists Improve Computer Chips using Computer Aided Design Software and Better Mathematical Algorithms

Integrated circuits are the "brain" in computers, cell phones, DVD players, iPhones, personal digital assistants, automobiles' navigation systems and anti-lock brakes, and many other electronic devices. A t...

20 Dec 2007

DropArray Miniaturized Bioassay to Lead to Cheaper Drugs

A standard laboratory tool for measuring pharmacological activity of biological substances and performing other related tests may soon be replaced by a new miniaturized bioassay that will be faster, cheaper and more effi...

20 Dec 2007

Single Photon Interference to Give Faster X-ray Interferometers

By means of X-ray interferometers, lengths down to the mm range can be measured with a resolution of less than one nm. The low translation velocity of the interferometers, which made their use in practice more difficult,...

20 Dec 2007

Superfast, Ultra Powerful Computers Set For Development After Researchers Develop Method for Replacing Silicon With Carbon in Electronics

Bypassing decades-old conventions in making computer chips, Princeton engineers developed a novel way to replace silicon with carbon on large surfaces, clearing the way for new generations of faster, more powerful cell p...

20 Dec 2007

Using Silicon Nanowires in Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Batteries Gives them 10 Times More Life

Stanford researchers have found a way to use silicon nanowires to reinvent the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that power laptops, iPods, video cameras, cell phones, and countless other devices. The new version, de...

20 Dec 2007

Nanotechnology News

Pennsylvania NanoMaterials Commercialization Center Accepting Proposals for Product Development Projects

Research Heads Toward New Class of High Temperature Superconductors

Spin Excitations May Explain What Binds Electrons During High Temperature Superconductivity

Quantum Chemical Methods Being Investigated for New Drug Development

Porous Metal Foam Makes Great Shape Changing Metal Alloy, Magnetic Shape Memory Foams

Gecko Glue a Step Closer with Release of Another Super Sticky Research Paper

Human Genetic Variation Named as Science "Breakthrough of the Year"

Concept Store Introduces Rapid Prototyping Machine

Experts Work Together to Develop Next Generation MEMS Devices

Grant to Develop More Efficient Solar Cells

UCLA Scientists Improve Computer Chips using Computer Aided Design Software and Better Mathematical Algorithms

DropArray Miniaturized Bioassay to Lead to Cheaper Drugs

Single Photon Interference to Give Faster X-ray Interferometers

Superfast, Ultra Powerful Computers Set For Development After Researchers Develop Method for Replacing Silicon With Carbon in Electronics

Using Silicon Nanowires in Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Batteries Gives them 10 Times More Life

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