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How Perfect Can Graphene Be?

Oct 13, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (29) | 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists have investigated the purest graphene to date, and have found that the material possesses unprecedented high electronic quality. The discovery has raised the bar for this relatively ...

Breakthrough in industrial-scale nanotube processing

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Nov 02, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (20) | 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Rice University scientists today unveiled a method for the industrial-scale processing of pure carbon-nanotube fibers that could lead to revolutionary advances in materials science, power ...

Scientists witness nature's complexity unfold in self-assembling quasicrystals

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Oct 31, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (17) | 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Just a few decades ago, scientists believed that all ordered matter consists of self-repeating building blocks -- atoms, ions or molecules. In this view, the ordinary solids of everyday life ...

Researchers invent new method for graphene growth

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

16 hours ago | 4.9 / 5 (17) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Cornell research team has invented a simple way to make graphene electrical devices by growing the graphene directly onto a silicon wafer.

Researchers Develop Material That Could Boost Data Storage, Save Energy

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Oct 20, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (18) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- North Carolina State University engineers have created a new material that would allow a fingernail-size computer chip to store the equivalent of 20 high-definition DVDs or 250 million pages of text, far ...

Ultra-Long Carbon Nanotubes Could Serve as Future Transmission Lines

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

12 hours ago | 4.9 / 5 (15) | 12

(PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to carbon nanotubes, the majority of research so far has focused on small-scale applications. But now, a team of researchers from Rice University has created carbon nanotubes ...

INL, ISU team on nanoparticle production breakthrough

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Oct 19, 2009 | 5 / 5 (14) | 1

Every hour, the sun floods Earth with more energy than the entire world consumes in a year. Yet solar power accounts for less than 0.002 percent of all electricity generated in the United States, primarily ...

Fuel cells get a boost

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Oct 15, 2009 | 3.9 / 5 (17) | 6

Fuel cells, devices that can produce electricity from hydrogen or other fuels without burning them, are considered a promising new way of powering everything from homes and cars to portable devices like cellphones ...

Graphene: Unravelling the secrets of a magic material

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Oct 15, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (12) | 8

UCL researchers are helping to unlock the secrets of a material that could ultimately be used in a new generation of electronic devices.

Nanosatellites expected to benefit from advanced propulsion technology

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Oct 19, 2009 | 4.1 / 5 (12) | 3

A University of Michigan professor is developing an electric rocket thruster, NanoFET, that uses nanoparticle electric propulsion and enables spacecraft to travel faster and with less propellant than previous ...

Researchers find new route to nano self-assembly

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Oct 22, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (9) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- If the promise of nanotechnology is to be fulfilled, nanoparticles will have to be able to make something of themselves. An important advance towards this goal has been achieved by researchers ...

3-D system based on optical fiber could provide new options for photovoltaics

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Nov 02, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (9) | 0

Converting sunlight to electricity might no longer mean large panels of photovoltaic cells atop flat surfaces like roofs.

New transparent insulating film could enable energy-efficient displays

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Nov 09, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (8) | 0

Johns Hopkins materials scientists have found a new use for a chemical compound that has traditionally been viewed as an electrical conductor, a substance that allows electricity to flow through it. By orienting ...

Carbon nanotubes may cheaply harvest sunlight

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Oct 19, 2009 | 3.4 / 5 (9) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new alternative energy technology relies on the element most associated with climate change: carbon.

Scientists develop DNA origami nanoscale breadboards for carbon nanotube circuits

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

13 hours ago | 5 / 5 (6) | 0

In work that someday may lead to the development of novel types of nanoscale electronic devices, an interdisciplinary team of researchers at the California Institute of Technology has combined DNA's talent ...