Brian Dorsett

Compounds made from renewable materials could be used for gas storage, food technologies.

Mad City Labs Inc., the leading global manufacturer of flexure based nanopositioning systems capable of sub-nanometre positioning resolution has appointed Elliot Scientific as distributor of its products within the UK and Ireland.

A new smartphone chip prototype under development at the University of California, San Diego will improve smartphone efficiency by making use of 'dark silicon' - the underused transistors in modern microprocessors.

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have devised a new technique - using a sheet of carbon just one atom thick - to visualize the structure of molecules. The technique, which was used to obtain the first direct images of how water coats surfaces at room temperature, can also be used to image a potentially unlimited number of other molecules, including antibodies and other biomolecules.

The company is making the flow available to customers as a platform to build upon proven foundry methodologies and enable successful design. GLOBALFOUNDRIES has teamed with Cadence Design Systems to deliver this AMS production design flow.

A 'game-changing' technique using near infrared light enables scientists to look deeper into the guts of cells, potentially opening up a new frontier in the fights against cancer and many other diseases.

Professor Roger Whatmore, CEO of Tyndall National Institute welcomed today the Forf s report on Ireland s Nanotechnology Commercialisation Framework 2010-2014.

A single laser pulse is sufficient to fabricate nanostructures suitable for microelectronic devices.

Gold nanoparticles power a quick and colorful method to detect protein-DNA interactions with nucleotide-specific sensitivity.

Two oxides show strong thermoelectric properties despite being metallic.

Silicon-based photonic circuits achieve data transmission capabilities sufficient for next-generation devices.

Wenn energiereiche Ionen auf einen Festkoerper treffen und aus ihm Atome loesen, nennt man das Sputtern. Damit lassen sich Glasoberflaechen hauchduenn beschichten. Forscher haben ein spezielles Sputter-Verfahren entwickelt und die Beschichtungseffizienz enorm erhoeht. Von dem Ergebnis profitiert nicht nur die Architektur.

Scientists speak of sputtering when energy-rich ions hit a solid object and cause atoms to be released from its surface. The phenomenon can be exploited to apply microscopically thin coatings to glass surfaces. A research team has developed a special sputtering technique that greatly increases the efficiency of the coating process.

Today, at the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC) in Buenos Aires (Argentina), imec and its project partners announce the launch of the European Seventh Framework Project MIRACLE. The MIRACLE project aims at developing an operational lab-on-chip for the isolation and detection of circulating and disseminated tumor cells (CTCs and DTCs) in blood. The new lab-on-chip is an essential step towards faster and cost-efficient diagnosis of cancer.

Speakers made from carbon nanotube sheets that are a fraction of the width of a human hair can both generate sound and cancel out noise - properties ideal for submarine sonar to probe the ocean depths and make subs invisible to enemies.

Researchers clear hurdle on path toward gene-therapy treatment for disease.

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have created 'quantum cats' made of photons (particles of light), boosting prospects for manipulating light in new ways to enhance precision measurements as well as computing and communications based on quantum physics.

Measurements of slight forces - one yoctonewton is equivalent to the weight of a single copper atom on Earth - can be useful in force microscopy, nanoscale science, and tests of fundamental physics theories.

Purdue University researchers have developed a new type of pump for drug-delivery patches that might use arrays of microneedles to deliver a wider range of medications than now possible with conventional patches.

Automated mineralogy technology suite now provides improved measurement and image analysis capabilities for mining, oil, gas and geoscience applications.