Graphene Nanoelectronics: Making Tomorrow’s Computers from a Pencil Trace
Jul 24, 2007 |
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A key discovery at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute could help advance the role of graphene as a possible heir to copper and silicon in nanoelectronics.
Beetle spawns new material
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 15, 2006 |
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The Namib Desert, one of the driest regions in the world, gets less than half an inch of rain per year. But early in the morning, a light fog drifts over the desert, offering the plants and animals living in ...
Nano-boric acid makes motor oil more slippery
Aug 06, 2007 |
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One key to saving the environment, improving our economy and reducing our dependence on foreign oil might just be sitting in your mother's medicine cabinet.
Molecular memory a game-changer
Nov 21, 2008 |
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A team at Rice University has determined that a strip of graphite only 10 atoms thick can serve as the basic element in a new type of memory, making massive amounts of storage available for computers, handheld media players, ...
Researchers Hear the Sound of Quantum Drums
Feb 08, 2008 |
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Forty years ago, mathematician Mark Kac asked the theoretical question, "Can one hear the shape of a drum?"
Air-purifying church windows early nanotechnology
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 21, 2008 |
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Stained glass windows that are painted with gold purify the air when they are lit up by sunlight, a team of Queensland University of Technology experts have discovered.
Nanowire technology could make LCDs brighter, thinner, and cheaper
Oct 03, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As nanoimprinting technology advances, scientists have shown that using nano-sized polarizers could significantly enhance the contrast ratio in liquid crystal displays (LCDs). For consumers, ...
New nanoscale engineering breakthrough points to hydrogen-powered vehicles
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 05, 2007 |
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Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have developed an advanced concept in nanoscale catalyst engineering – a combination of experiments and simulations that will bring ...
Can a single molecule behave as a mirror?
Nov 18, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- “We have shown for the first time, theoretically, that a single molecule can behave as a perfect mirror,” Mario Agio tells PhysOrg.com. “Imagine that your mirror at home becomes a single molecule and that y ...
Carbon nanotube injectors probe living cells without damage
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jun 20, 2007 |
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In order to investigate the processes that go on inside a single human cell—or even specific subcellular compartments—researchers need a device that is small and controlled enough to pass through ...
Feeling the Heat: Berkeley Researchers Make Thermoelectric Breakthrough in Silicon Nanowires
Jan 10, 2008 |
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Energy now lost as heat during the production of electricity could be harnessed through the use of silicon nanowires synthesized via a technique developed by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy’s ...
Scientists Create Quantum Cascade Laser Nanoantenna
Oct 23, 2007 |
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In a major feat of nanotechnology engineering researchers from Harvard University have demonstrated a laser with a wide-range of potential applications in chemistry, biology and medicine. Called a quantum ...
Electric field can align silver nanowires
May 17, 2006 |
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Scientists have discovered how to align silver nanowires in a controlled manner with an electric field. Their technique offers a possible route to sculpting and writing on nanowires, an ability that will likely ...
Future Computer Chips Could Be Cooled With Nanofluid
Apr 20, 2006 |
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“This is the next generation of cooling devices,” Dr. Hongbin Ma tells PhysOrg.com. With a group of students at the University of Missouri-Columbia, and colleagues at Argonne National Laboratory and Intel Corporation, Ma ...
Physics graduate creates graphene resonator
Feb 18, 2007 |
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In the world of cutting-edge physics, discoveries are often made using intricate procedures and elaborate, expensive instruments. But a paper by Cornell graduate student Scott Bunch and colleagues shows how ...
