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Intelligent Management of Electron and Hole Transport is Critical for Better Materials Performance

Hydrogen production by solar water splitting in photoelectrochemical cells (PEC) has long been considered the holy grail of sustainable energy research. Iron oxide is a promising electrode material. An international team of researchers led by Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, have now gained in-depth insights into the electronic structure of an iron oxide electrode – while it was in operation. This opens up new possibilities for an affordable hydrogen production from solar energy.

30 Oct 2012

Titan Supercomputer Will Enable Nanoscale Analysis of Alloys and Advanced Permanent Magnets

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory launched a new era of scientific supercomputing today with Titan, a system capable of churning through more than 20,000 trillion calculations each second—or 20 petaflops—by employing a family of processors called graphic processing units first created for computer gaming. Titan will be 10 times more powerful than ORNL's last world-leading system, Jaguar, while overcoming power and space limitations inherent in the previous generation of high-performance computers.

From Oak Ridge National Laboratory 30 Oct 2012

Agilent-Equipped Terahertz Measurement Laboratory Opened at University of Leeds

Agilent Technologies Inc. today announced the opening, at the University of Leeds, of the first Agilent-equipped terahertz measurement laboratory in Europe. The new laboratory will enable research on devices, components, circuits and systems at much higher frequencies than any other institution in the region has been able to do before.

From Agilent Technologies Inc. 30 Oct 2012

New System to Explore and Measure Nanoscale Thermal Conductance

Scientific research has provided us with a fundamental understanding of how light (via photons) and electricity (via electrons) move within and between materials at the micrometer or nanometer levels, making possible a wide variety of miniature devices such as transistors, optical sensors and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS).

29 Oct 2012

Attolight’s Cathodoluminescence Microscopy to Play Key Role in Joint Development Program with CEA-Leti

Attolight and CEA-Leti today announced that they have entered into a joint-development program to apply Attolight’s cathodoluminescence microscopy to semiconductor materials.

From CEA-Leti 29 Oct 2012

New Book Analyzes Defect Structure in Nanomaterials

Research and Markets has announced the addition of Woodhead Publishing Ltd's new book "Defect structure in nanomaterials" to their offering.

From Research and Markets 29 Oct 2012

Nanoscale Landscape Modifications May Produce Quantum Wire That Carries Current without Dissipation

In the relatively new scientific frontier of topological insulators, theoretical and experimental physicists have been studying the surfaces of these unique materials for insights into the behavior of electrons that display some very un-electron-like properties.

26 Oct 2012

New HARPES Technique Helps Design Spintronics Materials

University of California, Davis, researchers for the first time have looked inside gallium manganese arsenide, a type of material known as a "dilute magnetic semiconductor" that could open up an entirely new class of faster, smaller devices based on an emerging field known as "spintronics."

24 Oct 2012

Nanomechanics May Help Engineer Organs

Biologists have teamed up with mechanical engineers from the University of Texas at Dallas in cell research that provides information that may one day be used to engineer organs. The research, published online in the...

22 Oct 2012

Nanotextured Surfaces Boost Performance of Condensers in Power Generation Systems

Condensers are a crucial part of today’s power generation systems: About 80 percent of all the world’s powerplants use them to turn steam back to water after it comes out of the turbines that turn generators. They are also a key element in desalination plants, a fast-growing contributor to the world’s supply of fresh water.

From Massachusetts Institute of Technology 22 Oct 2012

Nanoanalysis News

Intelligent Management of Electron and Hole Transport is Critical for Better Materials Performance

Titan Supercomputer Will Enable Nanoscale Analysis of Alloys and Advanced Permanent Magnets

Agilent-Equipped Terahertz Measurement Laboratory Opened at University of Leeds

New System to Explore and Measure Nanoscale Thermal Conductance

Attolight’s Cathodoluminescence Microscopy to Play Key Role in Joint Development Program with CEA-Leti

New Book Analyzes Defect Structure in Nanomaterials

Nanoscale Landscape Modifications May Produce Quantum Wire That Carries Current without Dissipation

New HARPES Technique Helps Design Spintronics Materials

Nanomechanics May Help Engineer Organs

Nanotextured Surfaces Boost Performance of Condensers in Power Generation Systems

Revolutionary Nanofibers Made from Flour for Tissue Regeneration

A New Language for Nanopore Design

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Automated Image Acquisition and Analysis of Graphene and Hexagonal Boron Nitride Structures

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Conversations on AFM: The Technology and History Behind AFM and SPM

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