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The JOURNAL OF NANO EDUCATION (JNE) is a peer-reviewed international journal that aims to provide the most complete and reliable source of information on current developments in nanoscale science, technology, engineering and medical education. JNE will be published by American Scientific Publishers (http://www.aspbs.com/), who have established an international reputation for high quality publications in […]

For hardness and stiffness, it’s long been thought that nothing beats diamond. But Roderic Lakes and Don Stone, from the University of Wisconsin MRSEC and their colleagues have made a material that is almost ten times stiffer, by embedding small particles of barium titanate in a matrix of tin.
Barium titanate can adopt different crystal structures. […]

Human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) hold vast promise in science and medicine because of their potential to replicate indefinitely and their capability to differentiate to any cell type found in the adult. Many environmental cues, including soluble factors and intercellular signals, affect hESC differentiation and self-renewal decisions. By integrating a variety of carefully […]

Organic semiconductor materials have shown promise in recent years for use in low-cost electronics applications such as photovoltaics, chemical sensors, and flat-panel displays. In particular, pentacene thin films have been shown to exhibit high a large field-effect mobility on the order of 1 cm2/Vs, which is sufficient for organic thin-film transistors (TFTs) […]

Light-weight, flexible electronics that can be folded for storage but expanded when needed are attractive for a wide variety of applications, ranging from sophisticated large-area steerable antenna systems for space and aviation systems, to routine consumer electronics applications. Silicon nanomembranes are an ideal candidate for applications that require operation at microwave frequencies. Such […]

The main challenge facing stem cell research is that of guiding differentiation along these well-defined, controlled lineages. Stem cells grown in the laboratory tend to differentiate in an uncontrolled manner, resulting in a mixture of cells of little medical use. Now, UW-Madison researchers at the NSF-funded Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) have […]

A team, led by Electrical and Computer Engineering Assistant Professor Zhenqiang (Jack) Ma and Materials Science and Engineering Professor Max Lagally, have developed a process to remove a single-crystal film of semiconductor from the substrate on which it is built. This thin layer (only a couple of hundred nanometers thick) can be transferred to glass, […]