Papers – Page 632 – TechConnect Briefs

NanoEnergy- Technological and economical impact of nanotechnology on the energy sector

Luther W., VDI Technologiezentrum GmbH, DE

In respect of narrowing fossil energy resources and potential side effects of climate warming carbon dioxide emissions it becomes obvious that for a sustained longterm economical prosperity a fundamental renewal of the energy sector will [...]

Europe’s First Institute of Piezoelectric Materials & Devices

Cain M.G., National Physical Laboratory, UK

The European ‘Multifunctional Integrated Devices’ Network of Excellence is taking piezoelectric technologies into the industrial mainstream. It has successfully created the European Institute of Piezoelectric Materials and Devices with a founding membership of multidisciplinary researchers [...]

Bridge a Gap between Nanotechnology R&D, Business and Public

Sekiy M., An S., Ishizu S., National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), JP

I outline a new research project “Research on use of information and communication for facilitating public acceptance”. This project is one of the research components in a new research program “Developing knowledge-based platform to support [...]

Leveraging the Nation’s Nanotechnology Research Centers: True interdisciplinary buildings foster a seamless transition from lab bench to consumer

Soueid A., Adams G., Schaeffer M., Riojas S., HDR Architecture, Inc., US

Successfully fostering emerging technologies requires diligence in continually assessing and evolving best practices resulting in process improvements. While nanotechnology is in many ways still considered an emerging field, it is rapidly becoming the corner stone [...]

The importance of R&D alliances to sustain a nano-biotechnology ecosystem

Wauters J., Flanders Investment and Trade - Consulate General of Belgium, US

The breakthroughs in nanoelectronics, nanotechnology and biotechnology are resulting in a growing convergence of nano with bio, as they both ‘work’ at the nanoscale. Think e.g. of nanotherapeutics, where nanoparticles, loaded with drugs, can be [...]

Highlights of the R&D activities in the nanotechnology area performed by the Italian Interuniversity Consortium on Materials Science and Technology (INSTM)

Gatteschi D., Valente T., INSTM - University of Florence, IT

Highlights of the R&D activities in the nanotechnology area performed by the Italian Interuniversity Consortium on Materials Science and Technology (INSTM)

Welcome to Nanotech Germany, Research in Germany – Land of Ideas

Sicking F., Nanotech Germany, DE

Key technologies are “tickets” to the future. Nanotechnology is one of the most important key technologies. Nearly all branches of industry profit from the progress being made in nanotechnology research. And still, nanotechnology has a [...]

Preparation and Characterization of Bi-2212 thin films using pulsed laser depostion technique

Mua N.T., Rao C.N.R., Sundaresan A., Hien T.D., Man N.K., Hanoi University of Technology, VN

The surface morphology, microstructure and transport properties of the thin films are clearly a function of deposition temperature and post-annealing conditions.It is seen from our experimental data that post- annealing is required to obtain a [...]

Nanostructured films of novel azocompounds

Valdez-Hernandez Y.A., Rivera E., Carreon-Castro M.P., UNAM-Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, MX

Thin nanostructured films by Langmuir and Langmuir-Blodgett technique of novel azocompounds are reported. Brewster’s angle microscopy (BAM), UV-Visible absorption and atomic force microscopy (AFM) were obtained to determine the stability and quality of the films. [...]

Nanostructure LB films of novel OPV compounds

Jimenez-Nava B., Alvarez-Venicio V., Carreon-Castro M.P., Nuclear Science Institute, MX

We studied the formation of Langmuir monolayers of two series of amphiphilic monodendrons -conjugated from first to third generation number with different length of terminal chains C3H7 and C12H25, the characterization of the monolayer was [...]