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Breakthrough in industrial-scale nanotube processing

Breakthrough in industrial-scale nanotube processing

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (20) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Rice University scientists today unveiled a method for the industrial-scale processing of pure carbon-nanotube fibers that could lead to revolutionary advances in materials science, power ...


Danish nanowires have great potential

Danish nanowires have great potential

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Danish nanophysicists have developed a new method for manufacturing the cornerstone of nanotechnology research - nanowires. The discovery has great potential for the development of nanoelectronics and highly ...


Researchers create molecular diode

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Recently, at Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute, N.J. Tao and collaborators have found a way to make a key electrical component on a phenomenally tiny scale. Their single-molecule diode is described ...


Scientists bend nanowires into 2-D and 3-D structures

Scientists bend nanowires into 2-D and 3-D structures

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Taking nanomaterials to a new level of structural complexity, scientists have determined how to introduce kinks into arrow-straight nanowires, transforming them into zigzagging two- and three-dimensional ...


Researchers create molecular diode

Researchers create molecular diode

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Recently, at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute, N.J. Tao and collaborators have found a way to make a key electrical component on a phenomenally tiny scale. Their single-molecule diode is described ...


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Cooperative design shaves chip-making costs -- a boost for Europe's bottom line

Technology / Semiconductors

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A European-sponsored programme that gives universities inexpensive access to state-of-the-art microchip design tools and fabrication techniques, and helps even small businesses fabricate novel ...


Making Nanowires More Electrically Stable

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- It's widely predicted that future electronics will largely depend on something really small -- nanomaterials used for building nanoelectronics. A key component of these tiny circuits is stable nanowires that ...


Friction force differences could offer a new means for sorting and assembling nanotubes

Friction force differences offer new means for manipulating nanotubes

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nanotubes and nanowires are promising building blocks for future integrated nanoelectronic and photonic circuits, nanosensors, interconnects and electro-mechanical nanodevices. But some fundamental ...


Chemists Reach from the Molecular to the Real World with Creation of 3-D DNA Crystals

Chemists Reach from the Molecular to the Real World with Creation of 3-D DNA Crystals

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New York University chemists have created three-dimensional DNA structures, a breakthrough bridging the molecular world to the world where we live. The work, reported in the latest issue of ...


New material for nanoscale computer chips

New material for nanoscale computer chips

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Nanochemists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Nano-Science Center, Department of Chemistry at University of Copenhagen have developed nanoscale electric contacts out of organic and inorganic nanowires. ...


Graphene Shows High Current Capacity and Thermal Conductivity

Graphene Shows High Current Capacity and Thermal Conductivity

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 29, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (13) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Recent research into the properties of graphene nanoribbons provides two new reasons for using the material as interconnects in future computer chips. In widths as narrow as 16 nanometers, ...


New statistical technique improves precision of nanotechnology data

New statistical technique improves precision of nanotechnology data

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A new statistical analysis technique that identifies and removes systematic bias, noise and equipment-based artifacts from experimental data could lead to more precise and reliable measurement of nanomaterials ...


Bilayer graphene gets a bandgap

Bilayer graphene gets a bandgap

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 10, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Graphene is the two-dimensional crystalline form of carbon, whose extraordinary electron mobility and other unique features hold great promise for nanoscale electronics and photonics. But there's a catch: ...


Graphene may have advantages over copper for IC interconnects at the nanoscale

Graphene may have advantages over copper for IC interconnects at the nanoscale

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

The unique properties of thin layers of graphite - known as graphene - make the material attractive for a wide range of potential electronic devices. Researchers have now experimentally demonstrated the potential ...


'Writing' Patterns on Carbon Nanotubes With Polymer Chains

'Writing' Patterns on Carbon Nanotubes With Polymer Chains

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 19, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Carbon nanotubes are at the center of the nanoelectronics research movement, with scientists making great progress toward getting nanotube-based electronic devices into the hands of consumers. ...