Nanotube adhesive sticks better than a gecko's foot
Jun 19, 2007 |
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Mimicking the agile gecko, with its uncanny ability to run up walls and across ceilings, has long been a goal of materials scientists. Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of ...
Carbon Nanotube Windmills Powered by 'Electron Wind'
Jul 08, 2008 |
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Theoretical physicists from Lancaster University in the UK have designed a nanomotor that operates by a novel mechanism: an electron wind.
Nanotechnology brings brain recovery in sight
Mar 14, 2006 |
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Rodents blinded by a severed tract in their brains' visual system had their sight partially restored within weeks, thanks to a tiny biodegradable scaffold invented by MIT bioengineers and neuroscientists.
Graphene-based gadgets may be just years away
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 30, 2008 |
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Researchers at The University of Manchester have produced tiny liquid crystal devices with electrodes made from graphene – an exciting development that could lead to computer and TV displays based on this ...
Smaller is stronger -- now scientists know why
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jan 02, 2008 |
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As structures made of metal get smaller -- as their dimensions approach the micrometer scale (millionths of a meter) or less -- they get stronger. Scientists discovered this phenomenon 50 years ago while measuring ...
Researchers Produce Best-Yet Dye-Based Solar Cells
Jul 31, 2008 |
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In work that may help solar panels become a more viable source of mainstream power, a research group has created a dye-based solar cell with a high efficiency and high stability, and that lacks the volatile chemicals used ...
Intel, UCSB Develop World's First Hybrid Silicon Laser
Sep 18, 2006 |
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Researchers from Intel and the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) have built the world’s first electrically powered Hybrid Silicon Laser using standard silicon manufacturing processes. This breakthrough ...
Stretchable Silicon May Inspire a New Wave of Electronics
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 13, 2007 |
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Scientists have created a form of nanoscale silicon that is stretchable. The new material may help pave the way for a class of stretchable electronic devices, such as “smart” surgical gloves and personal health ...
New Nanomaterial, 'NanoBuds,' Combines Fullerenes and Nanotubes
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 30, 2007 |
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Researchers have created a hybrid carbon nanomaterial that merges single-walled carbon nanotubes and spherical carbon-atom cages called fullerenes. The new structures, dubbed NanoBuds because they resemble ...
'Nanomechanical Oscillators' Could Lead to New Class of Computers
May 02, 2008 |
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More than 50 years ago, a graduate student in Japan conceived the “Parametron,” an electrical circuit that could form the basis for digital computers. The concept ultimately fell flat, but recently a pair ...
Material may help autos turn heat into electricity
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 24, 2008 |
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Researchers have invented a new material that will make cars even more efficient, by converting heat wasted through engine exhaust into electricity. In the current issue of the journal Science, they describe a material with t ...
Printable, Flexible Carbon-Nanotube Transistors
Jan 08, 2008 |
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Scientists from the University of Massachusetts Lowell and Brewer Science, Inc. have used carbon nanotubes as the basis for a high-speed thin-film transistors printed onto sheets of flexible plastic. Their method may allow ...
Understanding light at the nanoscale: a nano-sized double-slit experiment
Jul 17, 2007 |
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Before nanotechnology can reach its full potential, researchers must understand the way things work on the nanoscale—which is often very different from the macroscopic world. One of these areas is light, and ...
Plumbing Carbon Nanotubes
Jan 07, 2008 |
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Scientists have determined how to connect carbon nanotubes together like water pipes, a feat that may lead to a whole new group of bottom-up-engineered nanostructures and devices.
Nanoparticles Generate Supersonic Shock Waves to Target Cancer
Jan 16, 2008 |
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By mixing nanomaterials that act as fuel and oxidizer, researchers have created a combustible nano explosive that can generate shock waves with Mach numbers up to 3.
