Nano News: 04/20/15

Researchers succeed in light-controlled molecule switching

Scientists at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) and the University of Konstanz are working on storing and processing information on the level of single molecules to create the smallest possible components that will combine autonomously to form a circuit. As recently reported in the academic journal ("Light-Induced Switching of Tunable...

UNL wins $9.6 million NSF grant for nanotechnology research center

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has earned a $9.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation to support its Materials Research Science and Engineering Center and its nanotechnology research through 2020. Through this multidisciplinary center, UNL physicists, chemists and engineers collaborate...

Engineers introduce design that mimics nature's camouflage

It can shift from red to green to violet. It can mimic patterns and designs. And it can do all of this in a flash -- literally. The same qualities that define the cuttlefish -- a sea dweller that uses its powers of dynamic camouflage to survive and communicate -- also apply to a new engineering feat that behaves much like nature's master of disguise....