New technology combines a laser and electric fields to separate particles and microbes by size.

New technology combines a laser and electric fields to separate particles and microbes by size.
Dr Gilberto Brambilla and Professor Sir David Payne announce creation of the new material – the strongest and lightest yet made.
Berkeley Lab researchers develop real-time CT-scan test rig for ceramic composites at ultrahigh temperatures.
Researchers create junctions, essential to electronics fabrication, by transferring graphene films onto patterned monolayer substrates.
Engineers create a device that can focus light into a point of just a few nanometers, with applications in computing, communications, and imaging.
Researchers make a fiber out of crystalline silicon semiconductor materials that can function as a solar cell.
The 2012 Fall Meeting of the Materials Research Society (MRS) took place in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, from November 25 to November 30.
Federico Rosei, director of the INRS Energy Materials Telecommunications Research Centre, has been elected as a Fellow in the Association for the Advancement of Science.
Nano-photonics expert Shawn Yu-Lin has been selected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Dr. Mayrhofer, head of the electrocatalysis group at Düsseldorf’s Max Planck Institute for Iron Research, has been awarded a young researchers prize.