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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 could speed the commercial development of devices, materials and technologies that exploit the physical properties of nanoparticles, which are thousands of times thinner than a human hair. The particles' small size means they behave differently compared with conventional materials, and their unusual proper ... read more |
Stealth-cap technology for light-emitting nanoparticlesDresden, 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 ... more
Watching nanoparticlesStanford 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
Penn engineers develop ultrathin, ultralight nanocardboardPhiladelphia 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
Physicists designed new antenna for supersensitive magnetometers of a new generationSaint 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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Nucleation a boon to sustainable nanomanufacturingSaint 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
Two quantum dots are better than one: Using one dot to sense changes in anotherOsaka, 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
New nanoparticle superstructures made from pyramid-shaped building blocksProvidence 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
Cannibalistic materials feed on themselves to grow new nanostructuresOak 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
First-ever colored thin films of nanotubes createdHelsinki, 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 photodetectorBejing, 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 manufacturingWashington 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
Hybrid nanomaterials bristle with potentialThuwal, 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
Nanotube 'rebar' makes graphene twice as toughHouston 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
Individual silver nanoparticles observed in real timeBochum, 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
Researchers use nanotechnology to improve the accuracy of measuring devicesMoscow (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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NASA Announces New Partnerships for Commercial Lunar Payload Delivery Services Washington DC (SPX) Nov 30, 2018 Nine U.S. companies now are eligible to bid on NASA delivery services to the lunar surface through Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) contracts, as one of the first steps toward long-term scientific study and human exploration of the Moon and eventually Mars.
These companies will be able to bid on delivering science and technology payloads for NASA, including payload integration and ... more |
Evolving Chinese Space Ecosystem To Foster Innovative Environment Montreal, Canada (SPX) Nov 23, 2018 According to Euroconsult's latest report, China Space Industry 2018, the China space value chain had an estimated size of more than $16 billion in 2017, with the downstream market accounting for just over 85%. Satellite Navigation, one of the key satellite applications in China, was the main revenue generator in 2017, ahead of Satellite Communications and Earth Observation.
This premier ed ... more |
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NATO exercises cyber defences as threat grows Tartu, Estonia (AFP) Nov 30, 2018
In a nondescript brick building on the snowy edge of Estonia's second city Tartu, soldiers in camouflage tap silently at computers. They are troops manning the 21st century's front line.
With its harsh lighting and partitioned desks, the room could be any soulless office. But this is NATO's "cyber range" and these men and women are running the alliance's biggest cyber warfare exercise, an e ... more |
NASA Announces New Partnerships for Commercial Lunar Payload Delivery Services Washington DC (SPX) Nov 30, 2018 Nine U.S. companies now are eligible to bid on NASA delivery services to the lunar surface through Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) contracts, as one of the first steps toward long-term scientific study and human exploration of the Moon and eventually Mars.
These companies will be able to bid on delivering science and technology payloads for NASA, including payload integration and ... more |
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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 |
Macroscopic phenomena governed by microscopic physics Osaka, Japan (SPX) Dec 03, 2018
It has been difficult to simultaneously obtain micro- and macroscopic information in outer space. Global images of distant astrophysical phenomena provide macroscopic information; however, local information is inaccessible.
In contrast, in situ observations with spacecrafts provide microscopic information of phenomena such as the Earth's magnetosphere, but it is difficult to obtain global ... more |
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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 |
Embark on a NASA technology scavenger hunt with Optimus Prime Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 29, 2018
How much NASA technology is in your life? Through the NASA OPTIMUS PRIME Spinoff Promotion and Research Challenge (OPSPARC), OPTIMUS PRIME and the AUTOBOTS encourage students to embark on three missions, starting with a scavenger hunt for NASA "spinoffs," or technologies created for NASA missions now being used for other purposes. Hosted by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, OPSPARC 2019 rolls ... more |
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Logos demonstrates Redkite advanced surveillance pod Washington (UPI) Nov 28, 2018
Logos Technologies announced Wednesday that it has successfully demonstrated its Redkite wide-area motion imagery sensor to representatives from defense, law enforcement and civilian agencies in The Netherlands at Bosschenhoofd airfield.
The flight is the first time the Redkite has been demonstrated for government officials, the company said.
The Redkite is built in a pod configu ... more |
Quantum computing at scale: Australian scientists achieve compact, sensitive qubit readout Sydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 27, 2018
Professor Michelle Simmons' team at UNSW Sydney has demonstrated a compact sensor for accessing information stored in the electrons of individual atoms - a breakthrough that brings us one step closer to scalable quantum computing in silicon.
The research, conducted within the Simmons group at the Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology (CQC2T) with PhD stu ... more |
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GEDI scientists share space laser excitement Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 03, 2018
A new NASA laser instrument set to launch to the International Space Station in December will help scientists create the first three-dimensional map of the world's temperate and tropical forests.
The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation, or GEDI, is scheduled to launch on SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket. From the station, GEDI's advanced laser technology will reveal the three-dimensional struc ... more |
The 'Chinese Pyramids' and the pole star Milan, Italy (SPX) Nov 30, 2018
The funerary complex of the first Chinese emperor of the Qin dynasty (3th century BC) is one of the most famous archaeological sites in the world. This is of course due to the discovery of the statues of the terracotta army, intended to accompany the emperor in the afterlife.
Much less known than the statues is the fact that tomb proper (still not excavated) lies beneath a gigantic, artifi ... more |
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Scientists Detect Biggest Known Black-Hole Collision Canberra, Australia (SPX) Dec 03, 2018
An international team of scientists have detected ripples in space and time, known as gravitational waves, from the biggest known black-hole collision that formed a new black hole about 80 times larger than the Sun - and from another three black-hole mergers.
The Australian National University (ANU) is playing a lead role in Australia's involvement with the gravitational wave discovery thr ... more |
Four New Gravitational Wave Detections Announced London, UK (SPX) Dec 03, 2018
Four new gravitational wave detections have been announced including the most massive and distant source ever observed. The results are included in a new paper from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the VIRGO gravitational-wave detector, which presents analysis of 10 stellar-mass binary black hole mergers and one neutron star merger.
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Brilliant iron molecule could provide cheaper solar energy Lund, Sweden (SPX) Dec 03, 2018
For the first time, researchers have succeeded in creating an iron molecule that can function both as a photocatalyst to produce fuel and in solar cells to produce electricity. The results indicate that the iron molecule could replace the more expensive and rarer metals used today.
Some photocatalysts and solar cells are based on a technology that involves molecules containing metals, know ... more |
SAS Signs Distribution Agreement with GlobalSat Group Washington DC (SPX) Dec 03, 2018
The Latin American market consists of 64 million people with limited or no access to mobile connectivity services, representing 10% of the Latin American population and symbolising strong growth potential for SAS in this region.
Once the constellation deployment has begun and as a result of this agreement, SAS expects to generate revenues of US$5 million within the first 2 years based on t ... more |
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