Targeted outreach now underway to attract qualified women, veterans and minority candidates to help fill more than 300 current and future openings at CNSE.

Water protection: new hydrophobic ceramics can take the strain
MIT researchers have come up with a new class of hydrophobic ceramics that can overcome the limitations of fragile polymer coatings.
New semiconductor research network founded
SRC and DARPA to fund fix new microelectronics centers in the United States.

Observing on the nanoscale without electron microscopy
Researchers from UCLA have created an optical microscopy method that allows users to directly see objects on the nanoscale.

Nanoscale "bed of nails" could kickstart new drug-delivery systems
NC State researchers create develop an elastic material that is embedded with aligned, nanoscale needles.

Book Review: Biomimetic, Bioresponsive, and Bioactive Materials
Professor Magnus Bergkvist, State University of New York, gives his perspective on this new publication.

A deep look into the body with Raman spectroscopy
Recent advances in the field of Raman spectroscopy have paved the way for new deep non-invasive medical diagnosis methods.

Extending the range of liquid crystalline blue phase
Kyushu University researchers demonstrate a new blue phase material with expanded temperature range and Bragg wavelength shift.

Efficient RGBw OLEDs with a common device structure
A research team from Taiwan have successfully created a tailor-made host material that allows creation of efficient, cheap to fabricate OLEDs and WOLEDs.

Semiconductor research center to be led by University of Notre Dame
Center for Low Energy Systems Technology is funded by Semiconductor Research Corp. and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.