A Step Towards High Throughput Continuous Nanoimprinting

ACS Nano reports that a step toward high throughput continuous nanoimprinting has been made. Nanoimprinting could eventually achieve 2 nanometer features. Currently this higher volume method is at about 50-300 nanometer features. The research team has performed some 50 nm large area nanoimprinting but this roll to roll process (higher speed) is at 300 nanometer …

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Avoidable Deaths Worldwide -Scope of issues and What can and is being done

WHO estimates that better use of existing preventive measures could reduce the global burden of disease by as much as 70%. 2008 World Health Report. Accelerating the improvement in lowering deaths from infectious disease. The top chart shows that acute respiratory infections, diarrhoeal disease, Malaria, HIV/Aids and Tubercolis kill about 9 million people in 2009. …

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Carbon Nanotubes and Teflon Repel Hot Water

To fabricate hot water repellent fabrics, a nanocomposite of Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) and Teflon was prepared and applied to commercial fabrics to produce scalding protection clothes. Current water repellent material only works well up to 25 °C. The new material was fairly effective for static water up to 80 °C and reduced effectiveness for dynamic …

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House and Senate Climate Bills and Stimulus Bill Energy Impact

The last few months and the next few months are seeing a flurry of energy bills and energy impacting legislation. Stimulus Bill’s Energy ImpactThe stimulus bill (America Recovery and Reinvestment Act 2009) ARRA allocated a total of $9.45 billion to weatherize and/or increase the energy efficiency of low-income housing and assist local governments in implementing …

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Double, Triple and Quadruple Patterning and Future Lithography

Four different kinds of double lithography. Click on the image for larger view Double patterning is a class of technologies developed for photolithography to enhance the feature density of computer chips. The resolution of a photoresist pattern begins to blur at around 45 nm half-pitch. Double patterning is the only lithography technique to be used …

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Carnival of Space 105

The Carnival of Space 105 is up at Discovery Space This site contributed an article with details on the space elevator hoop variant. Spacex Falcon 9 rocket launch has been delayed from summer 2009 into 2010 because of delays complying with air force regulations. 21st Century waves discusses how useful Mercury could be in the …

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Japanese scientists create transgenic monkeys

UPDATE: MIT Technology Review has coverage and the above pictures of the glow in the dark monkeys. The Nature journal abstract is here Eight pages of supplemental information is here Japanese scientists have created the world’s first transgenic primates, breeding monkeys with a gene that made the animals’ skin glow a fluorescent green. This can …

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Nanofountain Pen Can Place Nanodiamonds with 1000 Times Higher Resolution and inject Single Cells with Functionalized Nanodiamonds

Nanofountain pen can use functionalized nanodiamonds for many applications. The placement of nanodiamonds is one thousand times more precise than previous methods. Nanodiamonds are rapidly emerging as promising carriers for next-generation therapeutics and drug delivery. However, developing future nanoscale devices and arrays that harness these nanoparticles will require unrealized spatial control. Furthermore, single-cell in vitro …

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Any Sufficiently Advanced Technology is Indistinguishable from Magic: Beyond Invisibility Illusion Optics

Researchers from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology propose to use transformation optics [advanced metamaterials] to generate a general illusion such that an arbitrary object appears to be like some other object of our choice. This is achieved by using a remote device that transforms the scattered light outside a virtual boundary into …

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IMEC integrates plasmon-based nanophotonic circuitry with state-of-the-art ICs

IMEC, Europe’s leading independent nanoelectronics research institute, reports a method to integrate high-speed CMOS electronics and nanophotonic circuitry based on plasmonic effects. Metal-based nanophotonics (plasmonics) can squeeze light into nanoscale structures that are much smaller than conventional optic components. Plasmonic technology, today still in an experimental stage, has the potential to be used in future …

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Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy Starting Up

Transformational energy technology projects can be submitted to the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E or ARPA Energy) from May 12 to June 2, 2009 for the first round of funding. The agency defined as “transformational” a technology that “so outperforms current approaches that it causes an industry to shift its technology base to …

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