Technology Update

Using theoretical calculations of forces and currents, researchers in Spain and the Czech Republic have shown that the bright spots seen in scanning-tunnelling and atomic-force microscope images may correspond to the spaces between atoms and not to the atoms themselves.

Tiny carbon nanotubes could have a big impact on the size and performance of television screens based on organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs).

A new device that collects and focuses light before converting it into a current of electrons has been developed by researchers at Rice University in the US.

These flowers are not roses, tulips or columbines. They will be nanoflowers seeded from nano-sized particles of metals that grow, or self assemble, in a natural process — diffusion limited aggregation. They will be fractals that mimic and communicate efficiently with neurons.

During the visit the delegation met with H.E Mr Konstantin Kosachev, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the State Duma (Lower House) and other members of the committee.

Researchers at the University of Calgary and Hewlett Packard Labs in Palo Alto, California, have come up with a way to use impurities in diamonds as a method of creating a node in a quantum network.

Stanford researchers have developed a new biosensor microchip that could significantly speed up the process of drug development.

A new nanotechnology-based vaccine could provide protection from the Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus (BVDV), a disease that costs the Australian cattle industry tens of millions of dollars in lost revenue every year. 

The global supply deficit of rare earth minerals is likely to peak this year and then swing into a surplus by 2013, according to analysts with Goldman Sachs. 

A new publication, “Nanoinformatics 2020 Roadmap” is expected to enable and enhance connections among nanotechnology science and engineering researchers, manufacturers and interested government agencies. 

The European Commission will fund a 10-year, 1,000 million euro coordination action on graphene.  The research initiative will aim at producing a breakthrough for technological innovation and economic exploitation based on graphene, and related two-dimensional materials.  Graphene, with its unique properties, has sparked a scientific explosion, and a coordinated European level approach is needed in […]

Several start-ups have recently announced that they are using nanotechnology to make better ultracapacitors, leading to a new type of energy-storage technology that could boost the range of electric cars. 

Scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles, United States, have discovered a way to prod the immune system to fight cancer. 

The countries of South Korea and Russia have signed a memorandum of understanding that will cement a strategic partnership between the two nations. 

Scientists have developed a borate glass nanofiber material that appears to speed healing in initial venous stasis wounds. 

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States, have developed an unusual, high performance way of turning the sun’s heat into electricity.

Two-thirds of the rare earths mined in China come from the mineral-rich Bautou area on the edge of the Gobi desert. 

A team of researchers from the University of California, San Diego, United States, and Tyco Electronics, has developed a new kind of sensor that could warn emergency workers when the carbon filters they wear as protection have become dangerously saturated. 

Chemical engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States, have designed a new type of drug-delivery nanoparticle that could be used to deliver cancer drugs to nearly any type of tumor.

Researchers at the University of Maryland in the US are the first to have observed an insulating state at the surface of bismuth selenide.

A new catalyst for the so-called hydrogen evolution reaction has been developed by researchers at Stanford University in California.