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Engineers Produce 'How-To' Guide for Controlling the Structure of Nanoparticles

Sep 16, 2009 | 5 / 5 (4) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Tiny objects known as nanoparticles are often heralded as holding great potential for future applications in electronics, medicine and other areas. The properties of nanoparticles depend on their size and ...

Blood Brothers: Particles Form Strong Bonds in Blood Vessels (w/ Video)

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Sep 16, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Functionalized nano- and microscale particle systems have become a key component in biomedical applications, from drug delivery to prosthetics. Their small size and potential for modification and functionalization ...

New nanostructure technology provides advances in eyeglass, solar energy performance

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Sep 16, 2009 | 4 / 5 (3) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Chemical engineers at Oregon State University have invented a new technology to deposit "nanostructure films" on various surfaces, which may first find use as coatings for eyeglasses that ...

Friction force differences could offer a new means for sorting and assembling nanotubes

Friction force differences offer new means for manipulating nanotubes

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Sep 15, 2009 | 4 / 5 (3) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nanotubes and nanowires are promising building blocks for future integrated nanoelectronic and photonic circuits, nanosensors, interconnects and electro-mechanical nanodevices. But some fundamental ...

Looking deeply into polymer solar cells

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Sep 13, 2009 | 3 / 5 (2) | 2

Researchers from the Eindhoven University of Technology and the University of Ulm have made the first high-resolution 3D images of the inside of a polymer solar cell. This gives them important new insights ...

Using Nanotubes in Computer Chips

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Sep 10, 2009 | 5 / 5 (3) | 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT materials scientists have developed a new technique for growing carbon nanotubes that could replace the vertical wires in chips, permitting denser packing of circuits.

Carbon nanotubes could make efficient solar cells

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Sep 10, 2009 | 5 / 5 (21) | 13

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cornell researchers fabricated, tested and measured a simple solar cell called a photodiode, formed from an individual carbon nanotube.

Troublesome green algae serve as coating substrate in record-setting battery

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Sep 10, 2009 | 3.7 / 5 (10) | 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- Unwanted blooms of Cladophora algae throughout the Baltic and in other parts of the world are not entirely without a positive side. A group of researchers at the Angstrom Laboratory at Uppsala University have d ...

Gold solution for enhancing nanocrystal electrical conductance

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Sep 10, 2009 | 5 / 5 (3) | 1

In a development that holds much promise for the future of solar cells made from nanocrystals, and the use of solar energy to produce clean and renewable liquid transportation fuels, researchers with the U.S. ...

Cement's basic molecular structure finally decoded

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Sep 09, 2009 | 4.2 / 5 (16) | 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the 2,000 or so years since the Roman Empire employed a naturally occurring form of cement to build a vast system of concrete aqueducts and other large edifices, researchers have analyzed the molecular ...

Researchers develop thin films showing promise for solar applications

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Sep 08, 2009 | 4.1 / 5 (8) | 1

Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have developed thin films that exhibit carrier multiplication (CM). This development is of great interest for future solar cells.

Carbonized TiO2 nanotubes with semimetallic properties increase the efficiency of methanol fuel cells

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Sep 08, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Mention of nanotubes usually means carbon nanotubes. But not all tiny tubes are made of carbon. For example, layers made of nanoscopic titanium dioxide have proven to be useful materials for biotechnology, ...

Researchers design new graphene-based, nano-material with magnetic properties

New graphene-based nanomaterial with magnetic properties designed

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Sep 02, 2009 | 3.1 / 5 (18) | 4

An international team of researchers has designed a new graphite-based, magnetic nano-material that acts as a semiconductor and could help material scientists create the next generation of electronic devices ...

New Southampton clean room to push the boundaries of technology

Scientists to work on non-volatile 'universal memory' devices in new clean room facility

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Sep 02, 2009 | 2.5 / 5 (2) | 0

The University of Southampton’s Southampton Nanofabrication Centre, which opens next week (9 September), will make it possible to manufacture high-speed and non-volatile 'universal memory' devices for industry ...