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New Website on Piezo Technology
July 30th, 2010 — From Nanowerk.com
PI Ceramic -- a leading manufacturer of piezo ceramic materials, piezo components and custom engineered piezo products -- has released a new website.
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Polymer passage takes time
July 30th, 2010 — From Nanowerk.com
New theory aids researchers studying DNA, protein transport.
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Graphene under strain creates gigantic pseudo-magnetic fields
July 30th, 2010 — From Nanowerk.com
Researchers report the creation of pseudo-magnetic fields far stronger than the strongest magnetic fields ever sustained in a laboratory - just by putting the right kind of strain onto a patch of graphene.
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Behind the secrets of silk lie high-tech opportunities
July 30th, 2010 — From Nanowerk.com
A decade of research yields new uses for ancient material.
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Applied Nanotech Composite Program to be Presented at Army Science Conference
July 30th, 2010 — From Nanowerk.com
Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc. announced that work related to improving the ballistic performance of E-glass composite panels using carbon nanotubes performed in collaboration with the U.S. Army Engineer Research Development Center.
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Graphene exhibits bizarre new behavior well-suited to electronic devices
July 30th, 2010 — From Nanowerk.com
Physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) have found that when graphene is stretched in a specific way it sprouts nanobubbles in which electrons behave in a bizarre way, as if they are moving in a strong magnetic field.
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Hitachi High-Tech Develops a New Class of Transmission Electron Microscope Enabling Novel Work Environments
July 30th, 2010 — From Nanowerk.com
Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation has announced the development and release of the HT7700, a new type of transmission electron microscope (TEM) that integrates previously complex system operation onto a single monitor screen, and allows for sample observation even under normal room light conditions.
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Nanotechnology’s brightest coming to Rice for Buckyball Discovery Conference
July 30th, 2010 — From Nanowerk.com
Registration is open for Year of Nano events to be held Oct. 10-13 in honor of the 25th anniversary of the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of the carbon 60 molecule, the buckminsterfullerene, at Rice.
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A proposed flow battery for grid-scale storage gets $1.6 million from ARPA-E
July 30th, 2010 — From Nanowerk.com
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, known for having one of the top research programs in the country for batteries and fuel cells for vehicle applications, has decided to enter another area in the battery world. It has been granted $1.6 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds to develop a novel storage device for the electric grid.
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Researchers create fluorescent biosensor to aid in drug development
July 30th, 2010 — From Nanowerk.com
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a new fluorescent biosensor that could aid in the development of an important class of drugs that target a crucial class of proteins called G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs).