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By / June 17, 2011

UC Santa Barbara researchers (see story below) were able to link Einstein’s general theory of relativity to a totally different area of physics and hope the tools will one day…

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UPenn researchers find wrinkle in AFM nanoscale friction mystery

By / April 29, 2010

A group out of University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics thinks it knows why, at nanoscales, the friction encountered by, say, an atomic force microscope, increases…

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University of Pennsylvania’s Nano/Bio Center scoops $11.5M NSF grant

By / September 22, 2009

Good news came yesterday to the Nano/Bio Interface Center at the University of Pennsylvania when it learned it won an $11.5 million grant from the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Centers…

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