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February 26, 2014

Nanoscale pillars could radically improve conversion of heat to electricity
Boulder CO (SPX) Feb 24, 2014
University of Colorado Boulder scientists have found a creative way to radically improve thermoelectric materials, a finding that could one day lead to the development of improved solar panels, more energy-efficient cooling equipment, and even the creation of new devices that could turn the vast amounts of heat wasted at power plants into more electricity. The technique-building an array of tiny pillars on top of a sheet of thermoelectric material-represents an entirely new way of attacking a cent ... read more

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The thousand-droplets test In the future, an entire chemistry lab could be accommodated in a tiny little droplet. While simple reactions already work in these simplest models of an artificial cell now a group of scientists of ... more		Molecular Traffic Jam Makes Water Move Faster through Nanochannels Cars inch forward slowly in traffic jams, but molecules, when jammed up, can move extremely fast. New research by Northwestern University researchers finds that water molecules traveling through tin ... more		Physicists at Mainz University build pilot prototype of a single ion heat engine Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg are working on a heat engine that consists of just a single ion. Such a nano-heat engine could be far ... more
				Quantum dots provide complete control of photons By emitting photons from a quantum dot at the top of a micropyramid, researchers at Linkoping University are creating a polarized light source for such things as energy-saving computer screens and w ... more		New boron nanomaterial may be possible Researchers from Brown University have shown experimentally that a boron-based competitor to graphene is a very real possibility. Graphene has been heralded as a wonder material. Made of a single la ... more

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Engineers teach old chemical new tricks to make cleaner fuels, fertilizers University researchers from two continents have engineered an efficient and environmentally friendly catalyst for the production of molecular hydrogen (H2), a compound used extensively in modern ind ... more		Layered security: Carbon nanotubes promise improved flame-resistant coating Using an approach akin to assembling a club sandwich at the nanoscale, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers have succeeded in crafting a uniform, multi-walled carbon-nan ... more		Mayo Clinic performs successful face transplant Olive seeds from space mission begin growth in China Space for Shore project tracks Svalbard glacier changes with Sentinel-1		Molecular nano-spies to make light work of disease detection A world of cloak-and-dagger pharmaceuticals has come a step closer with the development of stealth compounds programmed to spring into action when they receive the signal. Researchers at the U ... more
				Carbon nanotube sponge shows improved water clean-up A carbon nanotube sponge capable of soaking up water contaminants, such as fertilisers, pesticides and pharmaceuticals, more than three times more efficiently than previous efforts has been presente ... more		Imec Celebrates 30 Years of Nanoelectronics Industry Innovation World-leading nanotechnology research and development center imec, has announced the celebration of its 30th anniversary. Founded in 1984 as a non-profit organization, imec has grown to be a multi-d ... more

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Layered security: Carbon nanotubes promise improved flame-resistant coating Using an approach akin to assembling a club sandwich at the nanoscale, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers have succeeded in crafting a uniform, multi-walled carbon-nan ... more		New patent mapping system helps find innovation pathways What's likely to be the "next big thing?" What might be the most fertile areas for innovation? Where should countries and companies invest their limited research funds? What technology areas are a c ... more		SpaceX fails to repeat Starship booster catch, orbiter makes on target splashdown Arianespace to launch Exotrail's Spacevan on Ariane 6 ESA set to advance European launch services with a Boost!		New Technique for Probing Subsurface Electronic Structure "The interface is the device," Nobel laureate Herbert Kroemer famously observed, referring to the remarkable properties to be found at the junctures where layers of different materials meet. I ... more
				Researchers 'detune' a molecule The molecule in question is carbon-60, also known as the buckminsterfullerene and the buckyball, discovered at Rice in 1985. The scientists led by Rice physicists Yajing Li and Douglas Natelson foun ... more		Understanding secondary light emissions by plasmonic nanostructures "Plasmonic nanostructures are of great current interest as chemical sensors, in vivo imaging agents, and for photothermal therapeutics," explained David G. Cahill, a Willett Professor and head of th ... more

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	No nano-dust danger from facade paint After 42 months the EU research project "NanoHouse" has ended, and the verdict is a cautious "all clear" - nanoparticles in the paint used on building facades do not represent a particular health ri ... more		Extraordinary sensors pushed to their boundaries Last year, Tobias Kippenberg and his team from the Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum Measurements (LPQM1) presented a new-generation sensor capable of detecting very small forces with unprecedente ... more		Penn research helps lay out theory for metamaterials that act as an analog computer The field of metamaterials has produced structures with unprecedented abilities, including flat lenses, invisibility cloaks and even optical "metatronic" devices that can manipulate light in the way ... more		ORNL-UT researchers invent 'sideways' approach to 2-D hybrid materials Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville have pioneered a new technique for forming a two-dimensional, single-atom sheet of ... more

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DNA motor 'walks' along nanotube, transports tiny particle		DNA clamp to grab cancer before it develops		Nanofriction on the tip of the microscope		Graphene nanoribbons an ice-melting coat for radar		Nanoscale friction: High energy losses in the vicinity of charge density waves

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