A $250,000 contribution today by ATT Arkansas in honor of outgoing board member Patti Upton gave a significant boost to the nanomedicine research program in the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.

Electronic screens based on new energy-efficient technology could become more affordable thanks to the substitution of expensive metal components with copper ones.

A combinatorial approach speeds up the discovery of highly sensitive probes for detecting cancer.

Mingyong Han at the A*STAR Institute of Materials Research and Engineering and co-workers have now discovered a way to produce high-quality nanoscale heterojunctions, setting the stage for cheaper and more efficient photovoltaic devices.

Analysis by MIT researchers could lead to improved coatings using polymer-based nanocomposite materials.

Releases new white paper outlining sources of ultrafine particles, human exposure risks, and regulation initiatives.

Jackie Y. Ying and her former group member Jun Yang from the A*STAR Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology have now developed a metal-semiconductor nanocomposite that can improve the performance of fuel cells.

It is helpful - even life-saving - to have a warning sign before a structural system fails, but, when the system is only a few nanometers in size, having a sign that's easy to read is a challenge. Now, thanks to a clever bit of molecular design by University of Pennsylvania and Duke University bioengineers and chemists, such warning can come in the form of a simple color change.

KLA-Tencor Corporation announced a critical enabling tool for chip manufacturing at the 20nm device nodes and below: the eDR-7000 electron-beam wafer defect review system.

ESM is an innovative new scanning probe microscopy technique implemented on Asylum's Cypher and MFP-3D AFMs that is capable of probing electrochemical reactivity and ionic flows in solids on the sub-ten-nanometer level.

Silica microspheres in liquid crystals offer the possibility of creating every knot conceivable.

Researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) in College Park, Maryland, operated by the University of Maryland and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and at Georgetown University have uncovered evidence for a long-sought-after quantum state of matter, a spin liquid.

University of Southampton researchers have developed new nano-structured glass optical elements, which have applications in optical manipulation and will significantly reduce the cost of medical imaging.

Nanostart-holding Nanosys, Inc. today announced that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded it funds to refine and bring to scale its SiNANOde materials for the automotive market. These innovations will enable Electric Vehicles to travel 300 miles on a single charge.

Associate Professor Richard Mildren and his colleagues from the Macquarie University Photonics Research Centre discovered that diamonds evaporate under exposure to light.

Imec, a research institute that has continually been at the forefront of advances in semiconductor technology and has always served as proving ground for advancements in microelectronics with close collaboration with the global industry, is being honored by IEEE with the 2011 IEEE Corporate Innovation Recognition.

Seit kurzem ist die Uni Duisburg-Essen (UDE) an einer Initiative beteiligt, die sich der Thematik Regenerative Medizin widmet: Die Forschergruppe "Nanopartikel" arbeitet fuer den DFG-Exzellenzcluster REBIRTH (Regenerative Biology to Reconstructive Therapy).

Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. announced the launching of a new product, a syndiotactic elastomer NOTIO SN. The company manufactures and widely distributes elastomers (flexible polymeric materials) for uses which include automotive, packaging, and construction materials.

DNA origami is a design technique that is used by nanotechnology researchers to fold DNA strands into something resembling a programmable pegboard on which different nanocomponents can be attached. These DNA assemblies allow the bottom-up fabrication of complex nanostructures with arbitrary shapes and patterns on a 100 nm scale. For instance, DNA origami have been heralded as a potential breakthrough for the creation of nanoscale circuits and devices. DNA can also be metallized with different metals, resulting in conducting nanowires. Researchers have now have developed a method to assemble metallic nanocircuits with arbitrary shapes, by attaching metallic nanoparticles to select locations of the DNA origami and then fusing them to form wires, rings, or any other complex shape. These pre-designed structures are programmed by fully utilizing the self-assembling and recognition properties of DNA.

Two Lehigh physicists have developed an imaging technique that makes it possible to directly observe light-emitting excitons as they diffuse in a new material that is being explored for its extraordinary electronic properties. Called rubrene, it is one of a new generation of single-crystal organic semiconductors.