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Breakthrough Nanotechnology Will Bring 100 Terabyte 3.5-inch Digital Data Storage Disks
Aug 11, 2004 |
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Have you ever dream of 100 terabyte of data per 3.5-inch disk? New patented innovation nanotechnology from Michael E. Thomas, president of Colossal Storage Corporation, makes it real. ...
For a Bigger Hard-drive, Just Add Water
May 11, 2006 |
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Imagine having computer memory so dense that a cubic centimeter contains 12.8 million gigabytes of information. Imagine an iPod playing music for 100 millennia without repeating a single song or a USB thumb-drive with room ...
Nanowire battery holds 10 times the charge of existing ones
Dec 18, 2007 |
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Stanford researchers have found a way to use silicon nanowires to reinvent the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that power laptops, iPods, video cameras, cell phones, and countless other devices.
Virtual 3D nanorobots could lead to real cancer-fighting technology
Dec 05, 2007 |
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From eliminating the side effects of chemotherapy to treating Alzheimer’s disease, the potential medical applications of nanorobots are vast and ambitious. In the past decade, researchers have made many improvements ...
Nanogenerator provides continuous power by harvesting energy from the environment
Apr 05, 2007 |
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Researchers have demonstrated a prototype nanometer-scale generator that produces continuous direct-current electricity by harvesting mechanical energy from such environmental sources as ultrasonic waves, ...
Researchers Suggest Quantum Dots as Media for Teleportation
Jun 21, 2007 |
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According to recent research, tiny clusters of atoms known as quantum dots may be excellent media for quantum teleportation, a physics phenomenon in which information – in the form of a quantum state, a very specific mathematical ...
Physicists invent 'QuIET' - single molecule transistors
Aug 30, 2006 |
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University of Arizona physicists have discovered how to turn single molecules into working transistors. It's a breakthrough needed to make the next-generation of remarkably tiny, powerful computers that nanotechnologists ...
Plastic solar cell efficiency breaks record
Apr 19, 2007 |
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The global search for a sustainable energy supply is making significant strides at Wake Forest University as researchers at the university’s Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials have announced that they have ...
How to Shrink a Carbon Nanotube
Nov 30, 2006 |
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A research group has devised a way to control the diameter of a carbon nanotube – down to essentially zero nanometers. This useful new ability, designed by scientists from the University of California at Berkeley ...
Researchers demonstrate 'avalanche effect' in solar cells
May 26, 2008 |
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Researchers at TU Delft (Netherlands) and the FOM Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter have found irrefutable proof that the so-called avalanche effect by electrons occurs in specific, very small ...
Graphene Takes the Heat
Feb 20, 2008 |
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Carbon nanotubes are being touted by many scientists and engineers as the material of the future, with the potential to revolutionize electronic technologies. But a new study shows that nanotubes may not be ...
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LCDs get brighter with nano polarization recycler
Sep 06, 2006 |
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LCDs (liquid crystal displays) provide a popular method for lighting screens on everything from computers and TVs to watches, clocks, cell phones and more. However, as scientists Sang Hoon Kim, Joo-Do Park ...
Magnetic fields created using nanotechnology could make computers up to 500 times faster
Jun 22, 2006 |
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Magnetic fields created using nanotechnology could make computers up to 500 times more powerful if new research is successful.
Scientists discover water is sticky on a small scale
May 08, 2006 |
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When water vapor condenses in a nano-sized space between two surfaces, the liquid behaves more like solid ice than liquid water, even at room temperature. This solidification causes water to exert such a strong ...
Self Assembling Chips
May 03, 2007 |
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In nature a phenomenon called "self assembly" is a delicate process that forms seashells, creates the enamel on teeth and transforms water into complex snowflakes. IBM Research has, for the first time ever, ...
