Nanotechnology paves way for super iPods

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A breakthrough by scientists from the University of Glasgow could see the storage capacity of an iPod increase 150,000 times.


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'Nanonet' circuits closer to making flexible electronics reality

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Researchers have overcome a major obstacle in producing transistors from networks of carbon nanotubes, a technology that could make it possible to print circuits on plastic sheets for applications including ...

Nanoparticle Research Points to Energy Savings

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Adding just the right dash of nanoparticles to standard mixes of lubricants and refrigerants could yield the equivalent of an energy-saving chill pill for factories, hospitals, ships, and ...

Artificial Lotus Effect: Carbon nanotubes with nanoscopic paraffin coating form superhydrophobic, self-cleaning surfaces

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Never wash your car again? Never clean your windows? These may well become reality if it becomes possible to produce the right coatings—coatings that imitate the self-cleaning effect of the lotus blossom.

Holey Nanoparticles Create New Tumor Imaging and Therapeutic Agent

Jul 22, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet
Using a polymer that has both water-soluble and water-insoluble regions, a team of investigators from the Siteman Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence has created a nanoparticle shaped like a bialy, a close relative ...

Engineers Prove Graphene is the Strongest Material

Jul 22, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- Research scientists at Columbia University’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science have achieved a breakthrough by proving that the carbon material graphene is the strongest ...
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