Nano World: Nano origami supercapacitors

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Origami with features just nanometers or billionths of a meter large can fold into electrically chargeable supercapacitors, experts told UPI's Nano World.


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Scientists demonstrate method for integrating nanowire devices directly onto silicon

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Applied scientists at Harvard University in collaboration with researchers from the German universities of Jena, Gottingen, and Bremen, have developed a new technique for fabricating nanowire photonic and ...

Researchers identify pressure effects on nanomaterials

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Transistors, lasers and solar-energy conversion devices may be easier to manipulate because of recent research by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists. The researchers defined the role high pressure ...

Chemists measure chilli sauce hotness with nanotubes

May 07, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet
Oxford chemists have found a way of using carbon nanotubes to judge the heat of chilli sauces. The technology might soon be available commercially as a cheap, disposable sensor for use in the food industry.

Researchers target tumors with tiny 'nanoworms'

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Scientists at UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara and MIT have developed nanometer-sized “nanoworms” that can cruise through the bloodstream without significant interference from the body’s immune defense system ...

Nanotube production leaps from sooty mess in test tube to ready formed chemical microsensors

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Carbon nanotubes’ potential as a super material is blighted by the fact that when first made they often take the form of an unprepossessing pile of sooty black mess in the bottom of a test tube. Now researchers ...
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