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Organic light emitting diodes (OLED) are the technology used in making light emitting fabrics used in cell phones and televisions. The fabrication of flexible OLEDs has up to now been held back by the fragility of the brittle indium tin oxide layer that serves as the transparent electrode. But researchers at the Regroupement Québecois sur les Matériaux de Pointe (RQMP) have found a solution based on carbon nanotubes which they published in the May online issue of Applied Physics Letters.

Researchers at the University of Arkansas have found a way to create switching in nanoscale materials, opening the path to using these new properties for memory devices, nanomotors, nanoswitches or nanosensors.

Russell Cowburn, 36, Professor of Nanotechnology at the renowned Imperial College, London, is the winner of the "Degussa European Science-to-Business Award 2006”, which carries a substantial amount of prize money. The winner was announced on Monday evening in Berlin by Degussa AG, Dusseldorf. Cowburn fought off competition from two other European teams in the final round. His nanotechnology-based process for manufacturing magnetic materials, which can increase the capacity of data storage devices by a factor of 100, won over the jury.