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Foresight Institute Announces Feynman Prize Winners
Oct 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Foresight Institute, a nanotechnology education and public policy think tank based in Palo Alto, has announced the winners of the prestigious 2009 Foresight Institute Feynman Prizes in Nanotechnology.
Scientists carve functional nanoribbons using super-heated, nano-sized particles of iron
Jul 31, 2008 |
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Due to its remarkable electronic properties, few layer graphene, or FLG, has emerged as a promising new material for use in post-silicon devices that incorporate the quantum effects that emerge at the nanoscale. Now, physicists ...
Scientists prove graphene's edge structure affects electronic properties
Feb 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Graphene, a single-atom-thick sheet of carbon, holds remarkable promise for future nanoelectronics applications. Whether graphene actually cuts it in industry, however, depends upon how graphene ...
Highlight: STM banopatterning on pristine Nb-doped SrTiO3 surfaces
Nov 04, 2009 |
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Collaborative users from the Advanced Photon Source at the Argonne National Laboratory, working with the Electronic & Magnetic Materials & Devices Group, have found a controllable way to modify the surfaces ...
Digital memory enters a new phase
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Mar 15, 2005 |
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With the recent explosion in the popularity of digital music, digital photography and even digital video, the demand for faster, higher-capacity and cheaper computer memory has never been greater. Writing in the April issue ...
Scientists Make 'Perfect' Nanowires
Jan 23, 2008 |
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Scientists have created silicon nanowires that are perfect—at least atomically. Down at the single-atom level, the identical wires have no bumps, bends, or other imperfections. They are perfectly crystalline, even more so ...
Researchers develop method for mass production of nanogap electrodes
Aug 16, 2007 |
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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a reliable, reproducible method for parallel fabrication of multiple nanogap electrodes, a development crucial to the creation of mass-produced nanoscale electronics.
Research Reveals Insight into Stability of Thin Films
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Jan 31, 2006 |
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Just as every snowflake is different from any other, an individual snowball exhibits exceptionally different properties than the thousands of snowflakes that make it up. A group led by Dr. Tai-Chang Chiang ...
Oil Worth Its Weight in Gold in Directed Nanomachining
May 25, 2005 |
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The world of nano-machines has moved a step closer to reality, thanks to researchers who have found a way to sculpt material at the nanoscale in a predictable, controllable and inexpensive manner by using a conducting liquid ...
Enabling graphene-based technology via chemical functionalization
May 17, 2009 |
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Graphene is an atomically thin sheet of carbon that has attracted significant attention due to its potential use in high-performance electronics, sensors and alternative energy devices such as solar cells. While the physics ...
California teens use Rice's NanoKids for virtual nanotech training
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 21, 2006 |
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A team of "virtual" teachers developed by a Rice University nanotechnology researcher are going to help some of California's brightest high school students design, build and test new structures, one atom at a time.
It's raining pentagons
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 08, 2009 |
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This week's Nature Materials (09 March 2009) reveals how an international team of scientists led by researchers at the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) at UCL have discovered a novel one dimensional ice ch ...
Superconductivity Physicists Puzzled by the Weird Behavior of Electrons
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Jul 30, 2004 |
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The weird behavior of electrons tunneling across an atomically flat interface within a cuprate superconductor has defied explanation by theories of high-temperature superconductivity. As will be reported in the journal Physical Review Letters, a team of scientists l ...
Researchers Discover Surface Orbital 'Roughness' in Manganites
Nov 20, 2007 |
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Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have shown that in a class of materials called manganites, the electronic behavior at the surface is considerably different from that found in ...
'Molecular Legos' Net Professor, Student Nanotech Prize
Nov 04, 2005 |
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A University of Pittsburgh researcher and his student have been awarded prestigious prizes from the Foresight Nanotech Institute for their work in developing a "molecular Lego® set" that will enable, for the first time, the ...
