News articles tagged with 'nanocrystal'
A dash of disorder yields a very efficient photocatalyst
— 29 Jan 2011 17:49 | TechnologyA little disorder goes a long way, especially when it comes to harnessing the sun's energy. Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley…
Nano drugs
— 7 Oct 2010 16:45 | HealthResearchers in India have demonstrated that producing nanoscopic crystals of a pharmaceutical product can allow the medication to be absorbed by the gut even if the drug is not soluble…
Magical BEANs: New nano-sized particles could provide mega-sized data storage
— 18 Sep 2010 08:46 | TechnologyThe ability of phase-change materials to readily and swiftly transition between different phases has made them valuable as a low-power source of non-volatile or 'flash' memory and data…
Researchers develop magnetic molecular machines to deliver drugs to unhealthy cells
— 11 Aug 2010 09:12 | HealthScientists from UCLA's California NanoSystems Institute and Korea's Yonsei University have developed an innovative method that enables nanomachines to release drugs inside living cancer…
Penn collaboration leads to simpler method for building varieties of nanocrystal superlattices
— 23 Jul 2010 11:38 | TechnologyCollaboration by chemists, physicists and materials scientists at the University of Pennsylvania has created a simple and inexpensive method to rapidly grow centimetre-scale membranes…
Highly efficient solar cells could result from quantum dot research
— 18 Jun 2010 14:58 | TechnologyConventional solar cell efficiency could be increased from the current limit of 30 percent to more than 60 percent, suggests new research on semiconductor nanocrystals, or quantum dots,…
Designer nanomaterials on-demand
— 20 Mar 2010 14:26 | TechnologyComposites are combinations of materials that produce properties inaccessible in any one material. A classic example of a composite is fibreglass - plastic fibres woven with glass to…
Scavenging energy waste to turn water into hydrogen fuel
— 17 Mar 2010 15:48 | ChemistryMaterials scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have designed a way to harvest small amounts of waste energy and harness them to turn water into usable hydrogen fuel…
Gold solution for enhancing nanocrystal electrical conductance
— 10 Sep 2009 18:17 | TechnologyIn a development that holds much promise for the future of solar cells made from nanocrystals, and the use of solar energy to produce clean and renewable liquid transportation fuels,…
Let there be light: Teaching magnets to do more than just stick around
— 21 Aug 2009 11:40 | TechnologyThat palm tree magnet commemorating your last vacation is programmed for a simple function - to stick to your refrigerator. Similarly, semiconductors are programmed to convey bits of…