Nano News & Events

There's big news in the world of tiny things. New research led by University of Cincinnati physics professors Howard Jackson and Leigh Smith could contribute to better ways of harnessing solar ener...

Amazing new computer chips are in the works, with American chip makers, universities and the federal government teaming up in an effort to develop the next generation of semiconductors.

Researchers at University of California, Santa Barbara, in collaboration with colleagues at the École Polytechnique in France, have conclusively identified Auger recombination as the mechanism that ca...

"Shallow acceptor complexes in p-type ZnO" Authors: J.G. Reynolds, C. L. Reynolds, Jr., J.F. Muth, J.E. Rowe and D.E. Aspnes, North Carolina State University; A. Mohanta and H.O. Everitt, U.S. Army...

An international team of scientists has shed new light on a fundamental area of physics which could have important implications for future electronic devices and the transfer of information at the qua...

Harris & Harris Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: TINY), an early-stage, active investor in transformative companies, notes today's announcement by Bridgelux, Inc., and Toshiba Corporation that they have entered i...

Researchers at Payam-e-Noor University of Tehran in collaboration with experts from Tabriz University of Medical Sciences found a simple synthesis method for zinc oxide (and hydroxide) and their appli...

Small World is a blog about new developments in nanotechnology funded by Nanopinion, a European Commission project. All the posts are commissioned by the Guardian, which has complete editorial control...

The General Meeting of IVAM e.V has renewed its confidence in the five-member board. Dr. Frank Bartels from Bartels Mikrotechnik GmbH has been re-elected as president and Dr. Thomas Kritzler has been...

Researchers at Northeastern University in Boston have developed a gene therapy approach that may one day stop Parkinson's disease (PD) in it tracks, preventing disease progression and reversing its sy...

University of Chicago researchers have created a synthetic compound that mimics the complex quantum dynamics observed in photosynthesis and may enable fundamentally new routes to creating solar-energy...

In a new study performed at the Center for Nanoscale Materials at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, researchers have for the first time seen the self-assembly of nanop...

Iranian researchers from Alzahra University produced an electrochemical DNA biosensor by studying interactions between antimicrobial drug and double stranded DNA on the surface of glassy carbon electr...

Throughout decades of research on solar cells, one formula has been considered an absolute limit to the efficiency of such devices in converting sunlight into electricity: Called the Shockley-Queisser...

The management of Harris & Harris Group, Inc., (NASDAQ: TINY), will webcast its Annual Meeting of Shareholders live, to be held in New York City on Thursday, May 2, 2013. The webcast will include the...

New research reveals that pure gold nanoparticles found in everyday items such as personal care products, as well as drug delivery, MRI contrast agents and solar cells can inhibit adipose (fat) storag...

UC research just published in the journal, "Nano Letters," details how solar-powered proteins can be used to filter antibiotics and other harmful compounds from rivers and lakes at a significantly hig...

Smart electronics are taking the world by storm. From techno-textiles to transparent electronic displays, the world of intelligent technology is growing fast and a revolutionary new device has just be...

The lack of control over one's own bowel movements can severely affect an individual's quality of life. Researchers at the University of Basel want to develop an adaptive implant that would be able to...

A new non-profit organization was launched this month to promote the responsible development and commercialization of graphene and graphene-enabled products. The Graphene Stakeholders Association (GSA...