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With help of DNA, nanotubes may become a bigger force

Aug 04, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0

In his neatly ordered lab at DuPont, chemist Ming Zheng slides open a glass cabinet and removes a flask of soot that could have been swept from someone's fireplace.

Plastics that convert light to electricity could have a big impact

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Aug 04, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (12) | 5

University of Washington researchers have found a way to measure exactly how much electrical current is carried by tiny bubbles and channels that form inside nanoscale solar cells, paving the way for development ...

Self-healing surfaces

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Aug 03, 2009 | 5 / 5 (4) | 0

The engineers' dream of self-healing surfaces has taken another step towards becoming reality -- researchers have produced a electroplated layer that contains tiny nanometer-sized capsules. If the layer is ...

From graphene to graphane, now the possibilities are endless

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Jul 31, 2009 | 5 / 5 (30) | 10

Ever since graphene was discovered in 2004, this one-atom thick, super strong, carbon-based electrical conductor has been billed as a "wonder material" that some physicists think could one day replace silicon ...

Graphene Shows High Current Capacity and Thermal Conductivity

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Jul 29, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (13) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Recent research into the properties of graphene nanoribbons provides two new reasons for using the material as interconnects in future computer chips. In widths as narrow as 16 nanometers, ...

Nanotubes take flight: Sscientists use nanomaterials to grow flying carpets, 'odako' kites

Nanotubes take flight: Scientists use nanomaterials to grow flying carpets, 'odako' kites

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Jul 29, 2009 | 5 / 5 (12) | 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- With products that range from carpets to kites, you’d think Rice University chemist Bob Hauge was running a department store. What he's really running is a revolution in the world of carbon ...

Teeny-tiny X-ray vision

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Jul 28, 2009 | 5 / 5 (4) | 0

The tubes that power X-ray machines are shrinking, improving the clarity and detail of their Superman-like vision. A team of nanomaterial scientists, medical physicists, and cancer biologists at the University of North Carolina ...

Icy exposure creates armored polymer high tech foams

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Jul 28, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (6) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Chemists and engineers at the University of Warwick have found that exposing particular mixtures of polymer particles and other materials to sudden freeze-drying can create a high-tech armored foam that could ...

Researchers Pressing on in Their Mission to Power the Nanodevices of Tomorrow

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Jul 27, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Much like humans, materials are capable of some pretty remarkable things when they're placed under pressure. In fact, under the right conditions, materials can even produce electricity.

Video shows nanotube spins as it grows (w/ Videos)

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Jul 27, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (9) | 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- New video showing the atom-by-atom growth of carbon nanotubes reveals they rotate as they grow, much like the halting motion of a mechanical clock's second hand. Published online this month ...

Scientists manipulate ripples in graphene, enabling strain-based graphene electronics (w/ Video)

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Jul 26, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (13) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Graphene is nature's thinnest elastic material and displays exceptional mechanical and electronic properties. Its one-atom thickness, planar geometry, high current-carrying capacity and thermal ...

Silicon with afterburners: Process developed at Rice could be boon to electronics manufacturer

Silicon with afterburners: New process could be boon to electronics manufacturer

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Jul 23, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (11) | 0

Scientists at Rice University and North Carolina State University have found a method of attaching molecules to semiconducting silicon that may help manufacturers reach beyond the current limits of Moore's ...

More than meets the eye: New blue light nanocrystals

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Jul 21, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (7) | 1

Berkeley Lab researchers have produced non-toxic magnesium oxide nanocrystals that efficiently emit blue light and could also play a role in long-term storage of carbon dioxide, a potential means of tempering ...

Glittering and glinting, the world's biggest diamond structure heads to the West End, UK

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Jul 20, 2009 | 2.5 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The largest representation ever created of the atomic structure of diamond will be brought to the West End on Tuesday for public exhibition. The sculpture is one of three works of science art portraying carbon ...

Laser technology creates new forms of metal and enhances aircraft performance

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Jul 15, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (9) | 6

AFOSR-funded researchers at the University of Rochester are using laser light technology that will help the military create new forms of metal that may guide, attract and repel liquids and cool small electronic ...