Materials & Innovations

Nanotechnology to improve efficiency and appearance of LEDs

By / January 22, 2010

In this struggling economy, businesses as well as the general populace are all struggling to do more with less. In the case of LED and nanotechnology, however, that may not be necessarily a…

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Northwestern University receives DoD funding for nanoelectronics

By / January 21, 2010

The Daily Northwestern reported that Northwestern University received $2.4 million in government funding to develop flash-memory devices with enhanced capacity for U.S. military and intelligence use. Allocated to NU’s Center…

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John Blottman on bioinspiration and jellyfish

By / January 21, 2010

I’m blogging now from ACerS’ Electronic Materials and Applications conference in Orlando, where it is a pleasant 70 degrees. Next week I shift over a few miles to Daytona Beach…

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Could low-cost superatomic materials replace costlier elements?

By / January 20, 2010

Based on the insights they are gaining from spectroscopic analysis of superatoms, a group out of Penn State thinks it might be possible to manipulate these materials to find low-cost…

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Video of the week: Pantano links the art and science of glass

By / January 20, 2010

  ACerS member Carlo Pantano, director of the Materials Research Institute, and Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Penn State University, is a nationally known expert on the…

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Nanoparticle cocktail targets and kills tumors

By / January 19, 2010

A team of researchers from the National Cancer Institute’s Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence have teamed up to develop a “cocktail” of different nanometer-sized particles that work in concert within…

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Funding to bring better Li-ions and SOFCs

By / January 18, 2010

With State of Ohio funding, researchers at Case Western Reserve University will help businesses in northeast Ohio build and bring to market better lithium-ion batteries and solid oxide fuel cell…

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Monday materials mind candy: funky49 visits Fermilab

By / January 18, 2010

Rap and science unite once again! Nerdcore superstar explores the facility and entertains the staff at the famous federal lab in Batavia, Ill. He gets the tunes rolling once he…

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Nanodiamond-Gd complex: ‘Contrast agent on steroids’

By / January 14, 2010

Dean Ho’s nanodiamond team at Northwestern always seems to be coming up with something new. This time, Ho and a team led by NWU cancer researcher Thomas J. Meade say…

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Can natural gas-SOFC combo be cheapest route to cleaner electricity?

By / January 13, 2010

Two researchers at MIT say they have what will be “the lowest price option” for power generation in the future if a carbon tax is every levied in the United…

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