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Results Bring Reality of Workable Quantum Computer One Step Closer

Complex computer encryption codes could be solved and new drug design developed significantly faster thanks to new research carried out by the University of Surrey. The results bring the reality of a workable quantum com...

6 Aug 2008

Harvard and Oxford Nanopore Announces Agreement to Progress Nanopore Science

Harvard University's Office of Technology Development and Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd today announced an agreement to progress nanopore science by integrating Harvard discoveries with technology in development a...

From Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd 6 Aug 2008

Scientists from Europe and Canada are Studying Tiny Gold Nanoparticles

Scientists from Germany, Canada and the Netherlands have studied tiny gold nanoparticles, so-called clusters, and found them to have fascinating arrangements of their constituent atoms.

5 Aug 2008

Using Nanotechnology to Improve Performance of Solar Cell

Solar cells of the future may look totally black to the human eye because they absorb light so efficiently. That's the promise of new research from an interdisciplinary team at the University of Virginia being funded by a new U.Va. Collaborative Sustainable Energy Seed Grant worth about $30,000.

5 Aug 2008

World's First All-Integrated Sensor Circuit Based on Nanowire Arrays

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have created the world's first all-integrated sensor circuit based on nanowire arrays, combining light sensors and electronics made of different crystalline materials. Their method can be used to reproduce numerous such devices with high uniformity.

5 Aug 2008

Funding to Increase Production and Enhance Market Penetration of Quantum Dot Lasers

Innolume, the leading provider of quantum dot (QD) laser diodes and modules covering the 1000 nm to 1320 nm optical spectrum, today announced that it secured a Series C round of financing for €8.6 million. The round...

5 Aug 2008

FEI and Max Planck Institute Announces Collaboration on Correlative Microscopy Solution

FEI Company, a leading provider of high-resolution imaging and analysis systems, and Max Planck Institute (MPI) of Biochemistry, a leading biochemical research institution, announced today their collaboration on a correl...

4 Aug 2008

Insight into the Most Fast-Moving and Trail-Blazing Scientific Disciplines of Today

Small Matters: Exploring the World of Microscopy will be officially opened by the University of Sydney's new Vice-Chancellor and Principal Dr Michael Spence, on Wednesday, 6 August, 2008. The exhibition will investig...

4 Aug 2008

Researchers Revealed Structures of Uncharged Gold Nano Particles for First Time

If someone is charged up, the colour of their face might change, but they don't immediately pull off one of their arms, only to reattach it as a third leg. With some molecules, however, the situation is quite different - for example, in a gold cluster with seven atoms.

2 Aug 2008

Scientists Produced the Brightest, Sharpest X-Ray Holograms of Microscopic Objects Ever Made

The pinhole camera, a technique known since ancient times, has inspired a futuristic technology for lensless, three-dimensional imaging. Working at both the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and at FLASH, the free-electron laser in Hamburg, Germany, an international group of scientists has produced two of the brightest, sharpest x-ray holograms of microscopic objects ever made, thousands of times more efficiently than previous x-ray-holographic methods.

2 Aug 2008