A 15 X 15 micron BE acoustic force microscopy scan of a polymer blend from which the Q-factor has been extracted.Contrast can be seen between the different constituent materials. The…
Read MoreAt the end of each week, I end up with a list of a bunch of stories I started to write about, or started to investigate or didn’t even get…
Read MoreIn the journal Science, a new device is described that fashions nanowires into a transistor small enough to probe the interior of cells. A Harvard press release reports that the…
Read MoreA bone allograft being placed into position. The University of the Basque Country (Universidad del País Vasco) reports that one of its Ph.D. students has developed a new porous, biodegradable…
Read MoreThe global market for nanotechnology is forecast to increase to more than $26 billion in 2015, a compound annual growth rate of 11.1% , from sales revenues of $11.67 billion…
Read MoreA new nanolithography process promises to speed up the “printing” of nanoscale patterns, which could soon allow investigators to quickly make prototypes of test electronic devices. Of course, various forms…
Read MoreUltrasensitive Nanomechanical Transducers Based on Nonlinear Resonance, one of ORNL’s 2010 R&D 100 award winners. (Credit: ORNL.) R&D Magazine awarded DOE and other federal labs with 50 of its R&D…
Read MoreDOE’s ARPA-E program today announced it would be funding 43 new high-risk, high-reward energy projects to the tune of $92 million. The funding is grouped into three areas: Grid-scale modular…
Read MoreA quartet of researchers from Italy and Germany have published an fascinating overview of polymer-derived ceramics in the most recent edition of JACerS. Paolo Colombo, Gabriela Mera, Ralf Riedel and…
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