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Ultrathin alternative to silicon for future electronics

November 22, 2010
nanoscience

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Contact: Lynn Yarris lcyarris@lbl.gov 510-486-5375 DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory There's good news in the search for the next generation of semiconductors. Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley, have successfully integra…


Antimatter Atoms Successfully Stored for the First Time

November 17, 2010
biotech

Atoms of antimatter have been trapped and stored for the first time by the ALPHA collaboration, an international team of scientists working at CERN in Switzerland. Berkeley Lab researchers made key contributions to the effort, including the design of the trap’s crucial component—an octupole magnet—and computer simulations needed to identify real antihydrogen annihilation events against a noisy background.


Scientists perfect new nanowire technique

October 14, 2010
energy

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Contact: Hannah Isom h.isom@leeds.ac.uk 44-011-334-34031 University of Leeds Scientists at the University of Leeds have perfected a new technique that allows them to make molecular nanowires out of thin strips of ring-shaped molecules known as discotic liquid crystals (DLCs). The findings could be an important step in the development of…


Nanotechnology Team Reports the Strongest Organic Nano-Material Ever Developed

September 29, 2010
nanoscience

[NEWS] TEL AVIV, Israel, September 29, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — A revolutionary new spherical nanostructure, fully derived from very simple organic elements, yet strong as steel, has been developed and characterized at the laboratories of Ehud Gazit of Tel Aviv University and Itay Rousso of the Weizmann Institute of Science. Lightweight and exceptionally strong, easy …


Progress towards DNA strand sequencing reported

September 26, 2010
biotech

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Contact: Zoe McDougall media@nanoporetech.com 44-084-503-47900 ×201 Feinstein Kean Healthcare Research demonstrates progress towards DNA strand sequencing Santa Cruz, CA, USA and Oxford, UK, 27 September 2010: Research published this week in Nature Nanotechnology shows a new method of enzyme-controlled mo…


Nanotech coatings produce 20 times more electricity from sewage

July 23, 2010
biotech

[NEWS] Contact: Frank Chaplen frank.chaplen@oregonstate.edu 541-737-1015 Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. – Engineers at Oregon State University have made a significant advance toward producing electricity from sewage, by the use of new coatings on the anodes of microbial electrochemical cells that increased the electricity productio…


Graphene oxide gets green

July 22, 2010
biotech

[NEWS] Contact: David Ruth druth@rice.edu 713-348-6327 Rice University Rice researchers show environmentally friendly ways to make it in bulk, break it down “We can make you and we can break you.” If Rice University scientists wrote country songs, their ode to graphene oxide would start something like that. But this song…


Magnetic fields can block conductivity of carbon nanotubes

July 8, 2010
biotech

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Contact: David Ruth druth@rice.edu 713-348-6327 Rice University Magnetic fields can block conductivity of carbon nanotubes Metallic carbon nanotubes show great promise for applications from microelectronics to power lines because of their ballistic transmission of electrons. But who knew magnets could stop those electrons i…


Postexposure protection of non-human primates against a lethal Ebola virus challenge with RNA interference: a proof-of-concept study

May 30, 2010
biotech

We previously showed that small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) targeting the Zaire Ebola virus (ZEBOV) RNA polymerase L protein formulated in …Read the Rest


Integrative NanoScience Institute at Florida State University

April 19, 2010
biotech

Imagine the marriage of hard metals or semiconductors to soft organic or biological products. Picture the strange, wonderful offspring –– …Read the Rest