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Increased Efficiency in Solar Energy Generation with Nanostructured Thin Films

In the race to make solar cells cheaper and more efficient, many researchers and start-up companies are betting on new designs that exploit nanostructures--materials engineered on the scale of a billionth of a meter. Usi...

9 Jan 2008

Cancers to be Detected Earlier With the Help of Gold Nanoparticle Probes

Using tiny gold particles embedded with dyes, researchers have shown that they can identify tumors under the skin of a living animal. These tools may allow doctors to detect and diagnose cancer earlier and less invasivel...

24 Dec 2007

Stanford Researchers Develop Quantum Light Switch

Infinitely secure cryptography that renders any computer unhackable. Computers that can solve the structure of a complicated protein at the drop of a hat. Programs to decrypt complicated enemy secrets. Optical data conne...

13 Dec 2007

Nanoco Leads the way in Taking Cutting Edge Research to the Marketplace as Commercial Products

Nanoco Technologies is unique in the nanomaterials market as a company that manufacture large quantities of quantum dots and partner major R&D and blue-chip industrial organisations in the development of quantum dot ...

12 Dec 2007

Ultra Bright Single Photon Source Article Makes Cover of Nature Photonics

Stefan Strauf, Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics & Engineering Physics at Stevens Institute of Technology, along with colleagues from the University of California, Santa Barbara and Leiden University (...

7 Dec 2007

MIT Researchers Say Key to Energy Savings Rests With Nanotechnology Enhanced Thermoelectric Materials

Breathing new life into an old idea, MIT Institute Professor Mildred S. Dresselhaus and co-workers are developing innovative materials for controlling temperatures that could lead to substantial energy savings by allowin...

21 Nov 2007

Nanotech Becomes a Commercial Reality With $50 Billion in Product Sales

For two decades, the term “nanotechnology” has been primarily associated with an R&D race spanning the public and private sectors. But nanotech is now shifting from discovery to commercialization, with $5...

21 Nov 2007

Optical Technique Developed for Controlling Spins in Groups of Quantum Dots

Scientists are closer to developing novel devices for optics-based quantum computing and quantum information processing, as a result of a breakthrough in understanding how to make all the spins in an ensemble of quantum ...

19 Nov 2007

Nanoparticle Images and Treats Cancer, Reports on Drug Delivery

Using a quantum dot plus an aptamer that doubles as a tether for the anticancer drug doxorubicin, a team of investigators at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)-Harvard Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excelle...

8 Nov 2007

Quantum Dot Transistor can Count Individual Photons

A transistor containing quantum dots that can count individual photons (the smallest particles of light) has been designed and demonstrated at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The semiconductor ...

15 Oct 2007