New Digital 'Electronics' Concept May Continue Moore's Law

New Digital 'Electronics' Concept May Continue Moore's Law

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (70) | comments 11

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computers of the future could be operating not on electrons, but on tiny waves traveling through an electron "fluid," if a new proposal is successful. The new circuit design, recently introduced ...


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Ultra-Long Carbon Nanotubes Could Serve as Future Transmission Lines

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (26) | comments 15

(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 ...


Caltech scientists solve decade-long mystery of nanopillar formations

Scientists solve decade-long mystery of nanopillar formations

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (23) | comments 2

Scientists at the California Institute of Technology have uncovered the physical mechanism by which arrays of nanoscale pillars can be grown on polymer films with very high precision, in potentially limitless ...


New study confirms exotic electric properties of graphene

New study confirms exotic electric properties of graphene

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (23) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- First, it was the soccer-ball-shaped molecules dubbed buckyballs. Then it was the cylindrically shaped nanotubes. Now, the hottest new material in physics and nanotechnology is graphene: ...


Breakthrough in industrial-scale nanotube processing

Breakthrough in industrial-scale nanotube processing

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (22) | comments 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 ...


Nanoparticles used in common household items caused genetic damage in mice

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (22) | comments 11

Titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles, found in everything from cosmetics to sunscreen to paint to vitamins, caused systemic genetic damage in mice, according to a comprehensive study conducted by researchers at UCLA's Jonsson ...


Researchers invent new method for graphene growth

Researchers invent new method for graphene growth

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (21) | 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.


Researchers create all-electric spintronics

Researchers create all-electric spintronics

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (20) | comments 3

A multidisciplinary team of UC researchers is the first to find an innovative and novel way to control an electron's spin orientation using purely electrical means.


Scientists first to trap light and sound vibrations together in nanocrystal

Scientists first to trap light and sound vibrations together in nanocrystal

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (18) | comments 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have created a nanoscale crystal device that, for the first time, allows scientists to confine both light and sound vibrations in the ...


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

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

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 31, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (17) | comments 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 ...


Small optical force can budge nanoscale objects

Small optical force can budge nanoscale objects

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | 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.


Nano-Scale Drug Delivery For Chemotherapy

Nano-Scale Drug Delivery For Chemotherapy

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Oct 31, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Going smaller could bring better results, especially when it comes to cancer-fighting drugs.


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 ...


Study shows how carbon nanotubes can affect lining of the lungs

Study shows how carbon nanotubes can affect lining of the lungs

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Oct 25, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Carbon nanotubes are being considered for use in everything from sports equipment to medical applications, but a great deal remains unknown about whether these materials cause respiratory ...


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 4.2 / 5 (11) | 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" ...