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President Barack Obama has announced a major national initiative to understand how the brain works and how it goes awry. Neuroscientist John Ngai, chemist Paul Alivisatos and chemical engineer Jay Keasling were on hand at the White House to lend support to the so-called BRAIN initiative, which Ngai termed “our moon project.”
Tag: nanoscience
UC grant will help commercialize nanolaser for faster computer chips
October 8, 2012:
Thanks to a new Proof of Concept grant from the University of California, Berkeley mechanical engineer Xiang Zhang will be able to build a prototype of his innovative “plasmon nanolaser,” faciitating the process of turning a lab-bench invention into a commercially viable technology for improving computer chip speed for use in high-volume data communications.
Berkeley to host transatlantic clean-energy conference
March 14, 2012:
The YESS 2012 symposium, starting March 20, brings together young researchers and senior scientists from France and America to discuss nanotechnology solutions to clean-energy challenges.
Novel metamaterial vastly improves quality of ultrasound imaging
November 5, 2010:
New “metamaterials” can overcome some of the limitations of microscopes and imagers, including ultrasound imagers. Researchers in the Nano-scale Science & Engineering Center have come up with a metamaterial to improve the picture quality of ultrasound by a factor of 50.
