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Unidym Showcases World's First Nanotube-Based Color Active Matrix EPD

Unidym, Inc., a majority-owned subsidiary of Arrowhead Research Corporation, announced today that Samsung Electronics is demonstrating the world's first carbon nanotube-based color active matrix electrophoretic display (EPD) e-paper at the International Meeting on Information Display (iMiD) at KINTEX, Ilsan, Korea from October 13th through October 17th.

16 Oct 2008

Silver Once Again Dominate as World's Most Popular Car Color

Silver has once again dominated as the world's most popular car color but other shades are gaining ground, especially in North America. This is according to annual automotive color popularity data released today by PPG Industries, the world's leading manufacturer of transportation coatings.

15 Oct 2008

Commercial Organic Solar Cells with Efficiencies of Over 10 Percent

IMEC's associated laboratory IMOMEC, located on the campus of the Hasselt University, developed a method to stabilize the nanomorphology of organic solar cells resulting in a lifetime improvement of at least a factor 10.

14 Oct 2008

Researchers Show DNA Strands Differ in Light Sensitivity Depending on Base Sequences

DNA, the molecule that acts as the carrier of genetic information in all forms of life, is highly resistant against alteration by ultraviolet light, but understanding the mechanism for its photostability presents some puzzling problems.

13 Oct 2008

International Photography Exhibition Showcases Scientific Research and Discovery

Acclaimed scientists and photographers from around the world will share their scientific research, discoveries and observations of natural wonders in an international photography exhibition opening next month at Rochester Institute of Technology.

11 Oct 2008

Device Allowing Imaging at Scales Previously Impossible for Optical Instruments

Researchers in Japan have developed a design concept for a device that allows imaging at scales previously impossible for optical instruments. Their advance is based on novel imaging techniques that allow optical imaging in the subwavelength regime, where the wavelength used is larger than the smallest features of the object being imaged.

10 Oct 2008

High-Resolution Umaging using Light in the Terahertz Region

Contrary to textbook wisdom, the unusually long illuminating wavelength of 118 µm did not at all preclude researchers from the Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry (MPIB) to resolve details as small as 40 nm (= 0.04 µm). This was made possible by the use of extreme THz field concentration at the sharp tip of a scanning atomic force microscope (AFM).

9 Oct 2008

New Type of LED to be Commercialized in the Seasonal Light Strand Market

Holiday Creations/Diogen Lighting, Inc. and Evident Technologies, Inc. today announced the signing of an exclusive licensing and purchase agreement to enable a new type of LED to be commercialized in the seasonal light strand market in the US and Canada.

8 Oct 2008

European Researchers are Shaking Up the Way R+D is Carried Out on Optical Chips

By working together to share costs and know-how, European researchers are shaking up the way research and development is carried out on optical chips.

7 Oct 2008

Konarka Opens World's Largest Roll-to-Roll Thin Film Solar Manufacturing Facility

Konarka Technologies, Inc., an innovator in development and commercialization of Power Plastic®, a material that converts light to energy, today announced the company has opened the largest roll-to-roll flexible thin film solar manufacturing facility in the world, preparing for the commercialization and mass production of its patent-protected thin film solar material, Power Plastic.

7 Oct 2008

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