Location: Tsukuba, Japan
Background and history of research:
As electronic commerce increases in popularity and information security
management at work and at home becomes more critical, there is a growing need to
improve encryption technology for open...
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Location: McGill University, Canada
McGill University researchers have successfully amplified light with
so-called "colloidal quantum dots," a technology that had been written off by
many as a dead-end.
Over the last 15 years, repeated quantum dot...
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Location: Alberta, Canada
INDIVIDUAL SILICON ATOMS can exhibit electronic properties typical of quantum
dots composed of thousands of atoms, according to researchers at Canada's
National Institute for Nanotechnology and the University of Alberta, Edmonton
(Phys....
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Location: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States
Acoustic waves play many everyday roles - from communication
between people to ultrasound imaging. Now the highest frequency acoustic waves
in materials, with nearly atomic-scale wavelengths, promise to be useful probes
of...
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Location: College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, United States
Researchers at North Carolina
State University have found that quantum dot nanoparticles can penetrate the
skin if there is an abrasion, providing insight into potential workplace...
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Location: Nist-301) 975-NIST (6478), TTY (301) 975-8295, NIST, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 1070, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-1070, United States
The NIST team investigated the dietary accumulation, elimination and
toxicity of two types of fluorescent quantum dots using a simple,
laboratory-based food chain with two microscopic aquatic organisms—Tetrahymena
pyriformis, a...
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Location: American Chemical Society (ACS), United States
Nanotechnology is now available in a store near you. Valued
for it’s antibacterial and odor-fighting properties, nanoparticle silver is
becoming the star attraction in a range of products from socks to bandages to
washing...
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Location: University of Illinois, United States
The continuous fabrication of complex, three-dimensional nanoscale structures
and the ability to grow individual nanowires of unlimited length are now
possible with a process developed by researchers at the
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Location: Carnegie Institution’s Geophysical Laboratory, Uruguay
Scientists have discovered that the magnetic strength of magnetite—the most
abundant magnetic mineral on Earth—declines drastically when put under
pressure. Researchers from the Carnegie...
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Location: University of California, Santa Cruz, United States
In the race to make solar cells cheaper and more efficient, many researchers
and start-up companies are betting on new designs that exploit
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Location: Emory University, and the Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
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 invasively
Studded with...
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Location: Cornell University, United States
Researchers at Cornell University for
the first time have integrated optical functions with microfluidic ones,
enabling the sorting of particles by light. Reported in the Oct. 29 issue of
Optics Express,...
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Location: DTU - Building 345east, DK-2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
Researchers are developing an assembly line to build
nanotechnology devices, which will
hopefully greatly increase the efficiency of nanofabrication. The line workers
in the system will likely be tiny...
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Location: University of California, San Diego - Department of Physics, United States
Two years after reporting the first tantalizing hints that matter might be
able to bind with antimatter, researchers in California have nailed convincing
evidence for the pairing.
David Cassidy and Allen Mills at the University of...
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Location: Gemini, SINTEF, N-7465 Trondheim, Norway, Norway
Today the solar cells have an effectiveness of 17% if it is considered that 100% represent the energy of the sunlight converted into electricity. There are two types of solar cells, the cells of first and second generation. The most important...
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Location: NIST-Boulder, MS 104.00, 325 Broadway, Boulder, Colo. 80305-3328, United States
Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Stanford and
Northwestern Universities have built micrometer-sized solid-state lasers in
which a single quantum dot can play a dominant role in the device’s...
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Location: The University of Manchester,
Oxford Road, Manchester,
M13 9PL,, United Kingdom
Professor Andre Geim and Dr Kostya Novoselov from The School of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Manchester, reveal details of transistors that are only one atom thick and less than 50 atoms wide, in the March issue of Nature Materials....
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Location: 75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 100 ,
Atlanta, Georgia 30308 , United States
Analyzing human blood for a very low virus concentration or a sample of water for a bioterrorism agent has always been a time-consuming and difficult process. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University have developed...
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