Researchers have developed a process that can increase the data recording density of hard disks to 3.3 Terabit/in2, six times the recording density of current models. The key ingredient in the much enhanced patterning method that he pioneered is sodium chloride, the chemical grade of regular table salt.

A bismuth-based semiconducting material could enable control of electron spin, a crucial requirement for advancing novel devices.

New processes that allow nanoparticles to assemble themselves into designer materials could solve some of today's technology challenges.

A new scheme termed "coherent photon conversion", could potentially overcome all of the currently unresolved problems for optical implementations of quantum computing.

Fractal Antenna Systems, Inc. today disclosed a patent filing for a novel approach to better wireless antennas. Called 'Fractal Plasmonic Surfaces', the new antenna technology promises to provide wideband ability at low cost along with other unique features.

Thresher Industries announced today that a patent application has been made for its breakthrough thermally conductive hybrid composite.

Dieser Jahresbericht gibt einen Einblick in die konkreten Aktivitaeten und die daraus entstandenen Arbeitsergebnisse, die das Jahr 2010 gepraegt haben.

QuantuMDx Group Limited, a handheld diagnostics and sequencing company, today announced that it has signed an exclusive license agreement with Nanosys Inc., an advanced materials architect, for several patents and patent applications related to the use of nanostructures for biosensors.

Design rules will enable scientists to use DNA to build nanomaterials with desired properties.

The National Cancer Institute funds breakthrough nano-electromagnetic cancer-sensing technology developed by the Senior Scientific branch of Manhattan Scientifics.

CETR, a privately held tribology and mechanical testing company headquartered in Campbell, CA, with 30 employees, has now become a part of the Bruker Nano Surfaces division, joining the current AFM (atomic force microscope) and SOM (stylus and optical metrology) businesses.

IBM Research has emerged as the winner in the ITRI sponsored Global Nano Innovation Contest with its Graphene Nanoelectronics: Wafer Scale Single Atomic Layer Carbon RF Devices and Circuits.

Finding could lead to new photodetectors or energy-harvesting devices.

Matthias Driess of TU Berlin receives Wacker Silicone Award 2011.

Researchers have been successful in substantially optimizing the electronic properties of organic semiconductors.

Der Ausschusses fuer Ernaehrung, Landwirtschaft und Verbraucherschutz des Deutschen Bundestages hielt am 24. Oktober eine Oeffentlichen Anhoerung zum Thema "Verbraucheraspekte beim Umgang mit der Nanotechnologie".

Vertical arrays of carbon nanotubes, called 'forests', are a common type of three-dimentional (3D) nanotube assembly that researchers work with in their labs. These forests can be produced by chemical vapor deposition technique and used for diverse applications such as in photo- or thermoacoustics, highly elastic conductive composites, for mechanical nanomanipulation, in catalysis, or as sensors in nanomedicine, just to name a few examples. These and other applications relay on connectivity of carbon nanotubes in the forest structure. New measurements show that room temperature electrical properties of this nanotube network reveal quite substantial nonlinerarities that became more pronounced at sample cooling.

Forsyth Technical Community College, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, will be the first college in the US to use Izon Science's qNano nanoparticle analysis system in a nano-education program.

Improvements to specialized valves that separate spin and electron currents may lead to higher-density magnetic media.

Scientists have succeeded in arranging nanopores on a tiny microchip and using it to determine the mass of chain-like molecules, so-called polymers, with a high degree of precision.