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Oak Ridge Wins Six R&D 100 Awards

Researchers and engineers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have won six R&D 100 Awards, presented each year by R&D Magazine in recognition of the year's most significant technological innovations.

13 Jul 2007

Creation of Joint Quantum Institute

Today, the University of Maryland (UM), the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the National Security Agency (NSA) announced the creation of a joint research institute designed to advance quantum physics research—deciphering the secrets of nature at the submicroscopic scale—and to exploit this knowledge to transform quantum technology from an exciting promise to practical reality.

13 Jul 2007

New, Nanoparticle-Based Multi-Probe Systems for New Generation of Medical Imaging

Since X-rays were discovered more than a century ago, triggering a revolution in medical imaging, clinicians have sought more powerful ways to "see" into the human body.

13 Jul 2007

Cylindrical Gold Nanorods Detect and Kill Cancer Cells

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of California, San Francisco, have found an even more effective and safer way to detect and kill cancer cells.

13 Jul 2007

Optical Cloaking Device

Researchers using nanotechnology have taken a step toward creating an "optical cloaking" device that could render objects invisible by guiding light around anything placed inside this "cloak."

13 Jul 2007

Dual-Modality Microbeads Identify Disease Biomarkers

Analyzing human blood for a very low virus concentration or a sample of water for a bioterrorism agent has always been a time-consuming and difficult process.

13 Jul 2007

Systematic Method for Directed Synthesis of 3D Nanocrystals

University of Arkansas researchers have examined the mechanisms underlying the synthesis of three-dimensional nanocrystals in solution and have created a systematic method for the directed synthesis of such nanocrystals.

13 Jul 2007

New X-ray Microscope Technique Observes Nano-Scale Features

Argonne National Laboratory scientists in collaboration with Xradia have created a new X-ray microscope technique capable of observing molecular-scale features, measuring less than a nanometer in height.

8 Jul 2007

Optical-Electrical-Optical Problem Turned into All Optical Solution

The Internet is often called the information superhighway, but the real superhighway is the optical fiber that connects computers around the world at the speed of light, according to John Badding, Penn State associate professor of chemistry.

8 Jul 2007

Cornell Researchers Create Broadband Light Amplifier on a Silicon Chip

Cornell University researchers have created a broadband light amplifier on a silicon chip, a major breakthrough in the quest to create photonic microchips.

8 Jul 2007

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