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November 15, 2018
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Stealth-cap technology for light-emitting nanoparticles



Dresden, Germany (SPX) Nov 15, 2018
A team of scientists from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), in collaboration with researchers from Monash University Australia, has succeeded in significantly increasing the stability and biocompatibility of special light-transducing nanoparticles. The team has developed the so-called "upconverting" nanoparticles that not only convert infrared light into UV-visible light, but also are water-soluble, remain stable in complex body fluids such as blood serum, and can be used to store m ... read more

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Nano-scale process may speed arrival of cheaper hi-tech products
Edinburgh UK (SPX) Nov 12, 2018
An inexpensive way to make products incorporating nanoparticles - such as high-performance energy devices or sophisticated diagnostic tests - has been developed by researchers. The process cou ... more
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Watching nanoparticles
Stanford CA (SPX) Nov 08, 2018
When Michal Vadai's experiment worked for the first time, she jumped out of her seat. Vadai, a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, had spent months designing and troubleshooting a new tool t ... more
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Penn engineers develop ultrathin, ultralight nanocardboard
Philadelphia PA (SPX) Nov 07, 2018
When choosing materials to make something, trade-offs need to be made between a host of properties, such as thickness, stiffness and weight. Depending on the application in question, finding just th ... more
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Physicists designed new antenna for supersensitive magnetometers of a new generation
Saint Petersburg, Russia (SPX) Nov 06, 2018
Scientists from ITMO University and Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences proposed a new microwave antenna that creates a uniform magnetic field in large volume. It is ... more


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Next generation of watch springs
Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Oct 31, 2018
Applied research is not always initiated by industry - but oftentimes it yields results that can swiftly be implemented by companies. A prime example can be seen on the Empa campus in Thun: Tiny wat ... more
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Caltech engineers create an optical gyroscope smaller than a grain of rice
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 26, 2018
Gyroscopes are devices that help vehicles, drones, and wearable and handheld electronic devices know their orientation in three-dimensional space. They are commonplace in just about every bit of tec ... more
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Researchers discover directional and long-lived nanolight in a 2D material
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 25, 2018
An international team led by researchers from Monash University (Melbourne, Australia), University of Oviedo (Asturias, Spain), CIC nanoGUNE (San Sebastian, Spain), and Soochow University (Suzhou, C ... more
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Big discoveries about tiny particles
Newark DE (SPX) Oct 09, 2018
From photonics to pharmaceuticals, materials made with polymer nanoparticles hold promise for products of the future. However, there are still gaps in understanding the properties of these tiny plas ... more
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Precise control of multimetallic one-nanometer cluster formation achieved
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 01, 2018
Researchers in Japan have found a way to create innovative materials by blending metals with precision control. Their approach, based on a concept called atom hybridization[1], opens up an unexplore ... more
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Nucleation a boon to sustainable nanomanufacturing
Saint Louis MO (SPX) Sep 27, 2018
Calcium carbonate is found nearly everywhere, in sidewalk cement, wall paint, antacid tablets and deep underground. Engineers at Washington University in St. Louis have used a unique set of state-of ... more
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Two quantum dots are better than one: Using one dot to sense changes in another
Osaka, Japan (SPX) Sep 27, 2018
Quantum dots are nanometer-sized boxes that have attracted huge scientific interest for use in nanotechnology because their properties obey quantum mechanics and are requisites to develop advanced e ... more
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New nanoparticle superstructures made from pyramid-shaped building blocks
Providence RI (SPX) Sep 25, 2018
Researchers from Brown University have assembled complex macroscale superstructures from pyramid-shaped nanoparticle building blocks. The research, described in the journal Nature, demonstrates a pr ... more
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Cannibalistic materials feed on themselves to grow new nanostructures
Oak Ridge TN (SPX) Sep 04, 2018
Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory induced a two-dimensional material to cannibalize itself for atomic "building blocks" from which stable structures formed. ... more
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First-ever colored thin films of nanotubes created
Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Aug 31, 2018
Single-walled carbon nanotubes, or sheets of one atom-thick layers of graphene rolled up into different sizes and shapes, have found many uses in electronics and new touch screen devices. By nature, ... more


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Fast visible-UV light nanobelt photodetector
Bejing, China (SPX) Aug 27, 2018
Compared with traditional thin-film photodetectors, one-dimensional nanostructures have larger surface-to-volume ratio, smaller size and higher carrier mobility, and thus tend to exhibit higher sens ... more
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Big-picture thinking can advance nanoparticle manufacturing
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 23, 2018
Nanoparticle manufacturing, the production of material units less than 100 nanometers in size (100,000 times smaller than a marble), is proving the adage that "good things come in small packages." ... more
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Hybrid nanomaterials bristle with potential
Thuwal, Saudi Arabia (SPX) Aug 14, 2018
By combining multiple nanomaterials into a single structure, scientists can create hybrid materials that incorporate the best properties of each component and outperform any single substance. A cont ... more
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Nanotube 'rebar' makes graphene twice as tough
Houston TX (SPX) Aug 06, 2018
Rice University researchers have found that fracture-resistant "rebar graphene" is more than twice as tough as pristine graphene. Graphene is a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon. On the two-dimen ... more
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Individual silver nanoparticles observed in real time
Bochum, Germany (SPX) Aug 03, 2018
Chemists at Ruhr-Universitat Bochum have developed a new method of observing the chemical reactions of individual silver nanoparticles, which only measure a thousandth of the thickness of a human ha ... more
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Researchers use nanotechnology to improve the accuracy of measuring devices
Moscow (SPX) Jul 30, 2018
Scientists from Higher school of economics and the Federal Scientific Research Centre 'Crystallography and Photonics' have synthesized multi-layered nanowires in order to study their magnetoresistan ... more
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Lunar Outpost unveils lunar resource prospecting rover
Boulder CO (SPX) Nov 14, 2018
Lunar Outpost, a space technology startup developing enabling technologies for a sustained presence on the Lunar surface, announced their Lunar Prospector designed to search for and map the Moon's natural resources. The first Prospector was demonstrated driving and drilling in Lunar regolith simulant at the Colorado School of Mines' new Lunar testbed facility in the Earth Mechanics Institu ... more
+ European-built Service Module arrives in US for first Orion lunar mission
+ Roscosmos to Study Possibility to 3D Print Lunar Soil Details for Space Repairs
+ First moon walk's commemorative plaque sold for $468,500
+ Neil Armstrong's huge souvenir collection to be auctioned
+ Maxar Technologies' MDA to design lunar rover concept for Canadian Space Agency
+ India successfully conducts crucial test of Moon lander
+ Preparing future explorers for a return to the Moon
China releases smart solution for verifying reliability of space equipment components
Beijing (XNA) Nov 13, 2018
The Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization (CSU) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences released a smart solution for verifying the operational reliability of space equipment components on Friday. The selection of space equipment components involves reliability verification, data collection, transmission and comparison. The smart solution will help shorten the time to ... more
+ China unveils new 'Heavenly Palace' space station as ISS days numbered
+ China's space programs open up to world
+ China's commercial aerospace companies flourishing
+ China launches Centispace-1-s1 satellite
+ China tests propulsion system of space station's lab capsules
+ China unveils Chang'e-4 rover to explore Moon's far side
+ China's SatCom launch marketing not limited to business interest


51 states pledge support for global cybersecurity rules
Paris (AFP) Nov 12, 2018
Fifty-one states, including all EU members, have pledged their support for a new international agreement to set standards on cyberweapons and the use of the internet, the French government said Monday. The states have signed up to a so-called "Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace", an attempt to kickstart stalled global negotiations. China, Russia and the United States did not ... more
+ Cathay says 'most intense' period of data breach lasted months
+ Snapchat parent hands over data for US inquiry
+ CSEM announces the world's first fully autonomous camera integrated into a patch or a magnet
+ Snowden issues surveillance warning to Israelis
+ World Wide Web inventor wants new 'contract' to make web safe
+ Senegal launches African 'cyber-security' school
+ Snowden issues surveillance warning to Israelis
Lunar Outpost unveils lunar resource prospecting rover
Boulder CO (SPX) Nov 14, 2018
Lunar Outpost, a space technology startup developing enabling technologies for a sustained presence on the Lunar surface, announced their Lunar Prospector designed to search for and map the Moon's natural resources. The first Prospector was demonstrated driving and drilling in Lunar regolith simulant at the Colorado School of Mines' new Lunar testbed facility in the Earth Mechanics Institu ... more
+ European-built Service Module arrives in US for first Orion lunar mission
+ Roscosmos to Study Possibility to 3D Print Lunar Soil Details for Space Repairs
+ First moon walk's commemorative plaque sold for $468,500
+ Neil Armstrong's huge souvenir collection to be auctioned
+ Maxar Technologies' MDA to design lunar rover concept for Canadian Space Agency
+ India successfully conducts crucial test of Moon lander
+ Preparing future explorers for a return to the Moon
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Stealth-cap technology for light-emitting nanoparticles
Dresden, Germany (SPX) Nov 15, 2018
A team of scientists from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), in collaboration with researchers from Monash University Australia, has succeeded in significantly increasing the stability and biocompatibility of special light-transducing nanoparticles. The team has developed the so-called "upconverting" nanoparticles that not only convert infrared light into UV-visible light, bu ... more
+ Nano-scale process may speed arrival of cheaper hi-tech products
+ Watching nanoparticles
+ Penn engineers develop ultrathin, ultralight nanocardboard
+ Physicists designed new antenna for supersensitive magnetometers of a new generation
+ Next generation of watch springs
+ Caltech engineers create an optical gyroscope smaller than a grain of rice
+ Researchers discover directional and long-lived nanolight in a 2D material
OpenForests launches the forest project platform explorer.land
Krefeld, Germany (SPX) Nov 12, 2018
OpenForests (https://openforests.com), an innovative German forest consulting and tech company, just released the explorer.land platform. The interactive map-based platform is designed to present forest and landscape projects and tell their stories while connecting like-minded organizations and stakeholders from around the world. "We believe that explorer.land will cause a substantial para ... more
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+ Alpine ice shows three-fold increase in atmospheric iodine
+ Improving Alignment and Testing of Earth Observation Satellites
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+ Europe's third polar-orbiting weather satellite lofted into orbit


Stealth-cap technology for light-emitting nanoparticles
Dresden, Germany (SPX) Nov 15, 2018
A team of scientists from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), in collaboration with researchers from Monash University Australia, has succeeded in significantly increasing the stability and biocompatibility of special light-transducing nanoparticles. The team has developed the so-called "upconverting" nanoparticles that not only convert infrared light into UV-visible light, bu ... more
+ Nano-scale process may speed arrival of cheaper hi-tech products
+ Watching nanoparticles
+ Penn engineers develop ultrathin, ultralight nanocardboard
+ Physicists designed new antenna for supersensitive magnetometers of a new generation
+ Next generation of watch springs
+ Caltech engineers create an optical gyroscope smaller than a grain of rice
+ Researchers discover directional and long-lived nanolight in a 2D material
'Autonomous Warrior': UK Army Conducts its Largest Test of Battlefield Robots
London, UK (Sputnik) Nov 13, 2018
The exercises are but the latest in a series of noticeable efforts by the British military establishment to increase know-how in the realm of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotic weapons technologies. The British Army has started an unprecedentedly large testing of battlefield robots, according to the Daily Mail. The event, dubbed the 'Autonomous Warrior 2018,' will last for abou ... more
+ Chinese state media debuts 'AI' news anchors
+ Artificial sensor mimics human sense of touch
+ Pitt researcher uses video games to unlock new levels of AI
+ Fire ant colonies could inspire molecular machines, swarming robots
+ Shape-shifting robots perceive surroundings, make decisions for first time
+ NASA researchers teach machines to "see"
+ Humans help robots learn tasks
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Alpha Unmanned Systems selects Robotic Skies for global support
Madrid, Spain (SPX) Nov 15, 2018
Alpha Unmanned Systems reports it has selected Robotic Skies, Inc. to develop and implement a global support plan for its current and future commercial UAVs, currently featuring the Alpha 800 unmanned helicopter. Robotic Skies will provide a warranty program and field support management for Alpha Unmanned customers through its network of worldwide service centers. Alpha Unmanned Systems de ... more
+ China steps up drone race with stealth aircraft
+ CERTAIN program uses NextNav's 3D geolocation technology (mbs) for urban drone operations
+ Autonomous vehicles could shape the future of urban tourism
+ Lockheed Martin integrates advanced radar system with unmanned aerostat
+ NASA leads Urban Air Mobility 'Grand Challenge' discussion with industry
+ General Atomics awarded Reaper strike drone production contract
+ Niger turns to drones to protect precious wildlife
Bringing photonic signaling to digital microelectronics
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 05, 2018
Parallelism - or the act of several processors simultaneously executing on an application or computation - has been increasingly embraced by the microelectronics industry as a way of sustaining demand for increased system performance. Today, parallel computing architectures have become pervasive across all application domains and system scales - from multicore processing units in consumer ... more
+ China challenges US to provide 'evidence' in trade secrets case
+ US accuses China, Taiwan firms with stealing secrets from chip giant Micron
+ Brain-inspired methods to improve wireless communications
+ Tianhe-2 supercomputer works out the criterion for quantum supremacy
+ Tests show integrated quantum chip operations possible
+ Researchers create scalable platform for on-chip quantum emitters
+ US imposes restrictions on Chinese tech firm


3D Printing, Virtual Reality, Simulated Stardust and More Headed to Orbiting Lab
Houston TX (SPX) Nov 14, 2018
The Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply flight 10 (CRS-10) is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station in mid-November. The craft's cargo includes several tons of crew supplies and science experiments ranging from 3D printing and recycling to simulating the creation of celestial bodies from stardust. Read more about some of the science NG CRS-10 delivers to the space station: ... more
+ Cells require background levels of radiation for normal growth
+ UTA researchers find cheaper, less energy-intensive way to purify ethylene
+ Optimization of alloy materials: Diffusion processes in nano particles decoded
+ Thermal testing of the magnetometer boom
+ Flying focus: Controlling lasers through time and space
+ A two-atom quantum duet
+ Flow units: Dynamic defects in metallic glasses
Hong Kong domestic helpers jump in deep end
Hong Kong (AFP) Nov 12, 2018
Every Sunday in Hong Kong the city's army of domestic helpers packs into parks or onto pavements, bridges and walkways on their one mandatory day off. With a marginalised position in society and low income, the force of more than 300,000 maids, mainly women from Indonesia and the Philippines, can find it hard to access public facilities like libraries and leisure centres. Some NGOs say a ... more
+ Chinese police detain more labour activists, group says
+ China tech factory conditions fuel suicides: study
+ Pioneering democracy trio prepare for trial in Hong Kong
+ Ma Jian on the need to tell the 'ruthless, bloody truth'
+ China's president inaugurates Hong Kong-mainland mega bridge
+ Backlash over FT journalist denied entry to Hong Kong
+ FT journalist denied entry to Hong Kong after author talks cancelled
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Doubly-excited electrons reach new energy states
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 15, 2018
Positrons are short-lived subatomic particle with the same mass as electrons and a positive charge. They are used in medicine, e.g. in positron emission tomography (PET), a diagnostic imaging method for metabolic disorders. Positrons also exist as negatively charged ions, called positronium ions (Ps-), which are essentially a three-particle system consisting of two electrons bound to a positron. ... more
+ Atomic parity violation research reaches new milestone
+ New finding of particle physics may help to explain the absence of antimatter
+ Half moons and pinch points: Same physics, different energy
+ Astronomers get best view yet of supermassive black holes in colliding galaxies
+ Johns Hopkins scientist finds elusive star with origins close to Big Bang
+ Spacetime - a creation of well-known actors?
+ Astronomers unveil growing black holes in colliding galaxies
Griffith precision measurement takes it to the limit
Nathan, Australia (SPX) Nov 06, 2018
Griffith University researchers have demonstrated a procedure for making precise measurements of speed, acceleration, material properties and even gravity waves possible, approaching the ultimate sensitivity allowed by laws of quantum physics. Published in Nature Communications, the work saw the Griffith team, led by Professor Geoff Pryde, working with photons (single particles of light) a ... more
+ Gravitational waves could shed light on dark matter
+ In five -10 years, gravitational waves could accurately measure universe's expansion
+ RUDN physicist described the shape of a wormhole
+ Kin of gravitational wave source discovered
+ RUDN mathematicians confirmed the possibility of data transfer via gravitational waves
+ GRACE-FO Satellite Switching to Backup Instrument Processing Unit
+ Boosting gravitational wave detectors with quantum tricks


High-performance solar cells: Physicists grow stable perovskite layers
Halle, Germany (SPX) Nov 09, 2018
Crystalline perovskite cells are the key to cutting-edge thin-film solar cells. Although they already achieve very high levels of efficiency in the laboratory, commercial applications are hampered by the fact that the material is still too unstable. Furthermore, there is no reliable industrial production process for perovskites. In a new study published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry ... more
+ Stanford researchers develop a rooftop device that can make solar power and cool buildings
+ Electric surge to require flexible power systems: IEA
+ New records in perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells through improved light management
+ See-through film rejects 70 percent of incoming solar heat
+ Ultra-thin transparent silver films for solar cells
+ Largest solar power study finds 25 percent power loss across UK
+ Swiss company using concrete bricks to make renewables more stable, cheaper
Extended life for ESA's science missions
Paris (ESA) Nov 15, 2018
ESA's Science Programme Committee (SPC) has confirmed the continued operations of ten scientific missions in the Agency's fleet up to 2022. After a comprehensive review of their scientific merits and technical status, the SPC has decided to extend the operation of the five missions led by ESA's Science Programme: Cluster, Gaia, INTEGRAL, Mars Express, and XMM-Newton. The SPC also confirmed ... more
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+ ESA's space vision presented at Paris Peace Forum
+ Market for 3,300 satellites worth $284 Billion over next decade
+ Telstar 18 VANTAGE satellite now operational over Asia Pacific
+ How Max Polyakov from Zaporozhie develops the Ukrainian space industry
+ SpaceFund launches the world's first space security token to fund the opening of the high frontier
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