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Holographic Video of Microscopic Systems Now Possible

Physicists at New York University have developed a technique to record three-dimensional movies of microscopic systems, such as biological molecules, through holographic video. The work, which is reported in Optics Expre...

20 Jul 2009

Nanocrystal Solar Cells and DLC Coating System Win R+D100 Awards for LBL Researchers

Four of R+D Magazine's prestigious R+D 100 Awards for 2009, which recognize the 100 most significant proven technological advances of the year, have gone to researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and their colleagues.

20 Jul 2009

Four R+D 100 Awards for Argonne National Labs

Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory received four R+D 100 awards as judged by R+D Magazine. "The Department of Energy's national laboratories are incubators ...

20 Jul 2009

25 Million Euro Grant to Develop Solar Technology Inspired by Plants

On Friday 10 July the research programme Towards Biosolar Cells was granted a budget of 25 million euros by the Dutch Government. The Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality recommended the programme because it will contribute to green energy, improve food supplies and a create a more sustainable biomass. The research focuses on increasing the efficiency of sunlight conversion into energy and building materials in plants and algae through photosynthesis.

20 Jul 2009

Materials Developments at Sandia Earn R+D100 Awards

Sandia National Laboratories researchers - competing in an international pool that includes universities, start-ups, large corporations, and government labs - received five R+D 100 Awards this year. R+D Magazine pres...

20 Jul 2009

Making Supersonic Jets Fly Faster with Nanocatalysts

Supersonic aircraft may get a boost in speed from the tiniest of manmade particles. An interdisciplinary team of scientists led by Princeton engineers has been awarded a $3 million grant to study how fuel additives made of tiny particles known as nanocatalysts can help supersonic jets fly faster and make diesel engines cleaner and more efficient.

20 Jul 2009

New Optical Materials Can Bend Light and other Electromagnetic Radiation

Even Albert Einstein might have been impressed. His theory of general relativity, which describes how the gravity of a massive object, such as a star, can curve space and time, has been successfully used to predict such astronomical observations as the bending of starlight by the sun, small shifts in the orbit of the planet Mercury and the phenomenon known as gravitational lensing. Now, however, it may soon be possible to study the effects of general relativity in bench-top laboratory experiments.

20 Jul 2009

How Light from Quantum Dots is Modified When in Proximity to Metal Films

Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory's CNM Nanophotonics Group have measured how light emission from individual colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals, or quantum dots, is modified when in proximity to smooth metal films.

20 Jul 2009

Low Cost SEM Wins R+D100 Award

Novelx, Inc. was just selected for a prestigious R&D 100 Award for one of the 100 most technologically significant new products in 2009. R&D Magazine recognized the Novelx mySEM® for miniaturizing and driving the cost out of the core technology inside a scanning electron microscope (SEM).

20 Jul 2009

On-Line Color Control for Plastic Processors and Compounders

A color control system equipped with a high-precision spectral line camera permits – for the first time ever – the on-line color control directly at the plastic pellets. With this innovative technology, color measurement takes only a few minutes and the results are available for color correction and/or quality documentation virtually in real time.

From Coperion GmbH 20 Jul 2009

Wacker Commissions New Silicone Emulsion Plant

WACKER DYMATIC Silicones, a joint venture between Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany) and DYMATIC Chemicals Inc. (Shunde, China), has commissioned a new silicone emulsion plant. It is located at the company's new head...

From Wacker Chemie AG 20 Jul 2009

New Biosensor Detects Salmonella Typhi

A Spanish research team headed by Jordi Riu and F. Xavier Rius at the University Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona has now developed a new technique to characterize bacteria. With a novel biosensor, they have been able to detect extremely low concentrations of the typhus-inducing Salmonella typhi.

20 Jul 2009

Recyclable, Sustainable Decking Solution

Wahoo Decks, a leading manufacturer of aluminum decking products, has recently developed recyclable, sustainable options for deck boards, deck joists and deck railing allowing builders, contractors and homeowners to extend the sustainability of their homes to their outdoor living areas.

19 Jul 2009

Scientists Create the World's First Atificial Graphene

The first artificial graphene has been created at the NEST laboratory of the Italian Institute for the Physics of Matter (INFM-CNR) in Pisa. It is sculpted on the surface of a gallium-arsenide semiconductor, to which it grants the extraordinary properties of the original graphene.

19 Jul 2009

Nanocoatings to Improve the Life and Performance of Joint Replacements

Newly announced National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding will expand the reach of ongoing University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) research into a unique nanostructured coating to improve the performance and longevity of total joint replacement components.

19 Jul 2009