Nano Technology News

May 02, 2014

Economics = MC2 A portrait of the modern physics startup
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 24, 2014
For much of the 20th century, many of the technological innovations that drove U.S. economic growth emerged from "idea factories" housed within large companies - research units like Bell Labs or Xerox PARC that developed everything from the transistor to the computer mouse. In recent decades, however, many large high-tech companies have eliminated in-house research programs, turning instead to startup companies as their primary source of breakthrough innovations. "Small startups have replac ... read more

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Proving uncertainty: New insight into old problem Nearly 90 years after Werner Heisenberg pioneered his uncertainty principle, a group of researchers from three countries has provided substantial new insight into this fundamental tenet of quantum p ... more		Cloaked DNA nanodevices survive pilot mission It's a familiar trope in science fiction: In enemy territory, activate your cloaking device. And real-world viruses use similar tactics to make themselves invisible to the immune system. Now scienti ... more		Nano shake-up Significant advances have been made in chemotherapy over the past decade, but targeting drugs to cancer cells while avoiding healthy tissues continues to be a major challenge. Nanotechnology h ... more
				Combs of Light Accelerate Communication Miniaturized optical frequency comb sources allow for transmission of data streams of several terabits per second over hundreds of kilometers - this has now been demonstrated by researchers of Karls ... more		Virus structure inspires novel understanding of onion-like carbon nanoparticles Symmetry is ubiquitous in the natural world. It occurs in gemstones and snowflakes and even in biology, an area typically associated with complexity and diversity. There are striking examples: the s ... more

CubeSats, SmallSats and MicroSats

The Motion of the Medium Matters for Self-assembling Particles By attaching short sequences of single-stranded DNA to nanoscale building blocks, researchers can design structures that can effectively build themselves. The building blocks that are meant to conne ... more		Never say never in the nano-world Objects with sizes in the nanometer range, such as the molecular building blocks of living cells or nanotechnological devices, are continuously exposed to random collisions with surrounding molecule ... more		Electric field changes signal early warnings of extreme weather Americans face an insurability crisis as climate change worsens disasters Extreme heat disrupts land's carbon absorption abilities		Nanosheets and nanowires Researchers in China, have found a convenient way to selectively prepare germanium sulfide nanostructures, including nanosheets and nanowires, that are more active than their bulk counterparts and c ... more
				Fabricating Nanostructures with Silk Could Make Clean Rooms Green Rooms Tufts University engineers have demonstrated that it is possible to generate nanostructures from silk in an environmentally friendly process that uses water as a developing agent and standard fabric ... more		Scientists watch nanoparticles grow With DESY's X-ray light source PETRA III, Danish scientists observed the growth of nanoparticles live. The study shows how tungsten oxide nanoparticles are forming from solution. These particles are ... more

UAV Payloads 2014, 24 - 25 June - London, UK

International Conference on Protection of Materials and Structures From Space Environment

Startup in the Land of the Rising Sun; A Japanese Solar Venture - by Bradley L. Bartz

Tempur-Pedic Mattress Comparison & Memory Foam Mattress Review

LockMart Opens Advanced Materials and Thermal Sciences Center In Palo Alto The Lockheed Martin Space Systems Advanced Technology Center (ATC) has opened a new state-of-the-art laboratories building that will enable the company to provide innovative technical solutions to c ... more		Nanotube coating helps shrink mass spectrometers Nanotechnology is advancing tools likened to Star Trek's "tricorder" that perform on-the-spot chemical analysis for a range of applications including medical testing, explosives detection and food s ... more		SpaceX set for Starship's next flight, Trump expected to attend Can the Trump-Musk 'bromance' last? Living microbes identified in Earth's driest desert using new technique		Researchers Grow Carbon Nanofibers Using Ambient Air, Without Toxic Ammonia Researchers from North Carolina State University have demonstrated that vertically aligned carbon nanofibers (VACNFs) can be manufactured using ambient air, making the manufacturing process safer an ... more
				A new concept for manufacturing wrinkling patterns on hard-nano-film/soft-matter-substrate Wrinkling is a common phenomenon for thin stiff film adhered on soft substrate. Various wrinkling phenomenon has been reported previously. Wu Dan, Yin Yajun, Xie Huimin,et al from Tsinghua Universit ... more		Toward 'vanishing' electronics and unlocking nanomaterials' power potential Brain sensors and electronic tags that dissolve. Boosting the potential of renewable energy sources. These are examples of the latest research from two pioneering scientists selected as this year's ... more

NASA Aeronautics Set to Premiere High-Flying Sequel

Acquisition boosts spare parts, services for legacy military aircraft

Marine Corps' CH-53K in new phase of testing

China issues first assessment on space activities

China launches experimental satellite

Tiangong's New Mission

Raytheon enhances malicious insider threat and privileged user abuse detection with new SureView release

US Supreme Court grapples with mobile phone quandary

Microsoft grapples with Internet Explorer security flaw

Iran, Russian energy deal frustrates U.S. government

U.S. Energy Department renews focus on grid security

Russian government calls for multilateral energy talks

	Nanoscale optical switch breaks miniaturization barrier An ultra-fast and ultra-small optical switch has been invented that could advance the day when photons replace electrons in the innards of consumer products ranging from cell phones to automobiles. ... more		Bionic plants Plants have many valuable functions: They provide food and fuel, release the oxygen that we breathe, and add beauty to our surroundings. Now, a team of MIT researchers wants to make plants even more ... more		Chelyabinsk meteor to help develop nanotechnology The Chelyabinsk meteor is full of mysteries. Scientists from Nizhny Novgorod have found natural magnesium-iron nanocrystals while studying the fragments of the meteor. This can give new information ... more		Waterloo physicists solve 20-year-old debate surrounding glassy surfaces University of Waterloo physicists have succeeded in measuring how the surfaces of glassy materials flow like a liquid, even when they should be solid. A series of simple and elegant experiments were ... more

Russia says Ukraine fired US long-range missiles; Borrell urges EU states to follow US on missile use

Putin broadens rules on Russia's use of nuclear arms

NKorea to boost economic cooperation with Russia alongside growing military ties

Optical nano-tweezers take over the control of nano-objects		NIST microanalysis technique makes the most of small nanoparticle samples		Experts warn against nanosilver		Nanoscale pillars could radically improve conversion of heat to electricity		Pinwheel 'living' crystals and the origin of life
The thousand-droplets test		Molecular Traffic Jam Makes Water Move Faster through Nanochannels		Physicists at Mainz University build pilot prototype of a single ion heat engine		Quantum dots provide complete control of photons		New boron nanomaterial may be possible

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