Nanomaterials news
New memory material may hold data for one billion years
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Packing more digital images, music, and other data onto silicon chips in USB drives and smart phones is like squeezing more strawberries into the same size supermarket carton. The denser you ...
A step toward better brain implants using conducting polymer nanotubes
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 29, 2009 |
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ANN ARBOR, Mich.---Brain implants that can more clearly record signals from surrounding neurons in rats have been created at the University of Michigan. The findings could eventually lead to more effective ...
A recipe for controlling carbon nanotubes
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 20, 2009 |
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Nanoscopic tubes made of a lattice of carbon just a single atom deep hold promise for delivering medicines directly to a tumor, sensors so keen they detect the arrival or departure of a single electron, a replacement for ...
Major breakthrough in lithium battery technology reported
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 18, 2009 |
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An NSERC-funded lab at the University Of Waterloo has laid the groundwork for a lithium battery that can store and deliver more than three times the power of conventional lithium ion batteries.
Better control of carbon nanotube 'growth' promising for future electronics
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have overcome a major obstacle in efforts to use tiny structures called carbon nanotubes to create a new class of electronics that would be faster and smaller than conventional ...
Video shows nanotube spins as it grows (w/ Videos)
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 27, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Gold solution for enhancing nanocrystal electrical conductance
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 10, 2009 |
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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. ...
Nanopillars Promise Cheap, Efficient, Flexible Solar Cells
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have demonstrated a way to fabricate efficient solar cells ...
Oxygen in place of chlorine: Towards a more environmentally friendly propylene oxide synthesis
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Propylene oxide is an important bulk chemical that is used primarily in the production of polyurethane plastics. Currently, propylene oxide is usually made from propylene (propene) in a process that uses ...
Capping A Two-Faced Particle Gives Duke Engineers Complete Control (w/ Video)
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists drew fittingly from Roman mythology when they named a unique class of miniscule particles after the god Janus, who is usually depicted as having two faces looking in opposite directions.
Acoustic tweezers can position tiny objects
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Manipulating tiny objects like single cells or nanosized beads often requires relatively large, unwieldy equipment, but now a system that uses sound as a tiny tweezers can be small enough ...
Scientists manipulate ripples in graphene, enabling strain-based graphene electronics (w/ Video)
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 26, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Icy exposure creates armored polymer high tech foams
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 28, 2009 |
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(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 ...
It's raining pentagons
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 08, 2009 |
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This week's Nature Materials (09 March 2009) reveals how an international team of scientists led by researchers at the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) at UCL have discovered a novel one dimensional ice ch ...
Nanotubes take flight: Scientists use nanomaterials to grow flying carpets, 'odako' kites
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 29, 2009 |
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(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 ...
