Biofunctionalized magnetic-vortex microdiscs

Highlight: Biofunctionalized magnetic-vortex microdiscs

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Users from Argonne's Materials Science Division and University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine, working collaboratively on a user science project with CNM's Nanobio Interfaces Group, have discovered ...


Small optical force can budge nanoscale objects

Small optical force can budge nanoscale objects

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineering researchers have used a very tiny beam of light with as little as 1 milliwatt of power to move a silicon structure up to 12 nanometers.


Running electronics using light

Running electronics using light

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (19) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- "If you open up almost any electronic gadget, you will see various elements that operating using electric circuitries," Nader Engheta tells PhysOrg.com. "Many of them have different functi ...


How Perfect Can Graphene Be?

How Perfect Can Graphene Be?

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (30) | comments 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 ...


Could a paper transistor offer an alternative to silicon?

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- As technology advances, scientists look for ways to enhance electronic applications and devices. Indeed, electronics are getting smaller and more diverse. And as this happens, there is an increased requirement ...


Scientists Build Nanostructures out of Single DNA Strands

Scientists Build Nanostructures out of Single DNA Strands

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- With its unique double-helical structure, DNA has the ability to be used as a programmable building material to construct designer nanoscale architectures. Complex DNA architectures could ...


Argonne 'homegrown' hybrid solar cell aims for low-cost power

Argonne 'homegrown' hybrid solar cell aims for low-cost power

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have refined a technique to manufacture solar cells by creating tubes of semiconducting material and then "growing" ...


Scientists develop DNA origami nanoscale breadboards for carbon nanotube circuits

Scientists develop DNA origami nanoscale breadboards for carbon nanotube circuits

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 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 ...


Nanomedicine: ending 'hit and miss' design

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the promises of nanomedicine is the design of tiny particles that can home in on diseased cells and get inside them. Nanoparticles can carry drugs into cells and tag cells for MRI and other diagnostic ...


Research helps overcome barrier for organic electronics

Research helps overcome barrier for organic electronics

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Electronic devices can't work well unless all of the transistors, or switches, within them allow electrical current to flow easily when they are turned on. A team of engineers has determined ...


Researchers invent new method for graphene growth

Researchers invent new method for graphene growth

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (22) | comments 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.


Fast, easy, and highly sensitive arsenic detection with gold nanoparticles

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Mention of arsenic poisoning usually brings to mind underhanded murder. However, the danger of arsenic poisoning from contaminated drinking water is far greater. Low concentrations of arsenic are found in ...


Findings show nanomedicine promising for treating spinal cord injuries

Findings show nanomedicine promising for treating spinal cord injuries

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Nov 08, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Purdue University have discovered a new approach for repairing damaged nerve fibers in spinal cord injuries using nano-spheres that could be injected into the blood shortly ...


Atom Pinhole Camera Acts as a Shrinking Copy Machine

Atom Pinhole Camera Acts as a Shrinking Copy Machine

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (20) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1983, Richard Feynman proposed the idea of a machine that could create smaller scale replicas of itself. Today, such a system is still a challenge, but a machine that can produce nanometer-sized ...


New transparent insulating film could enable energy-efficient displays

New transparent insulating film could enable energy-efficient displays

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 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 ...