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Tiny Music Player Made from Wire Bridge

Tiny Music Player Made from Wire Bridge (w/ Video)

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (14) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 2008, scientists built a loudspeaker made of carbon nanotubes that produced sound and music based on the thermoacoustic effect. Now, a different team of scientists has built a loudspeaker ...


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 ...


Penn study: Transforming nanowires into nano-tools using cation exchange reactions

Transforming nanowires into nano-tools using cation exchange reactions

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A team of engineers from the University of Pennsylvania has transformed simple nanowires into reconfigurable materials and circuits, demonstrating a novel, self-assembling method for chemically creating nanoscale ...


What Comes After Hard Drives?

What Comes After Hard Drives?

Electronics / Hardware

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (34) | comments 36

(PhysOrg.com) -- The ability to store and retrieve data is an important component of today's computers, as well as other modern electronic devices such as cell phones, video game consoles, and camcorders. ...


Improved Electric Propulsion Could Boost Satellite Lifetimes

Improved Electric Propulsion Could Boost Satellite Lifetimes

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have won a $6.5 million grant to develop improved components that will boost the efficiency of electric propulsion systems used to control ...


Advance in 'nano-agriculture': Tiny stuff has huge effect on plant growth

Advance in 'nano-agriculture': Tiny stuff has huge effect on plant growth

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

With potential adverse health and environmental effects often in the news about nanotechnology, scientists in Arkansas are reporting that carbon nanotubes (CNTs) could have beneficial effects in agriculture.


solar cells

Carbon nanotubes may cheaply harvest sunlight

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (9) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new alternative energy technology relies on the element most associated with climate change: carbon.


Chemistry Team Seeks to Use Artificial Photosynthesis and Nanotubes to Generate Hydrogen Fuel with Sunlight

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of four chemists at the University of Rochester have begun work on a new kind of system to derive usable hydrogen fuel from water using only sunlight.


Tomatoes

Can Nanotubes Help Your Garden Grow?

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (12) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- When we think of nanotubes, we often think of solar panels and physical science. However, it appears that nanotubes can also provide valuable help to plants as a fertilizer. Just add carbon ...


Better control of carbon nanotube 'growth' promising for future electronics

Better control of carbon nanotube 'growth' promising for future electronics

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have overcome a major obstacle in efforts to use tiny structures called carbon nanotubes to create a new class of electronics that would be faster and smaller than conventional ...


A step toward better brain implants using conducting polymer nanotubes

A step toward better brain implants using conducting polymer nanotubes

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 1

ANN ARBOR, Mich.---Brain implants that can more clearly record signals from surrounding neurons in rats have been created at the University of Michigan. The findings could eventually lead to more effective ...


New research may lead to revolutionary new devices

New research may lead to revolutionary new devices

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 25, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Dr. Jiwoong Park of Cornell University, who receives funding for basic research from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), is investigating carbon nanostructures that may some day be used in ...


Cheap, sensitive sensors could detect explosives, toxins in water

Cheap, sensitive sensors could detect explosives, toxins in water

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A sensitive new Stanford-developed disposable chip detects low concentrations of the explosive trinitrotoluene (TNT) and a close chemical cousin of the dreaded toxic nerve agent sarin in water ...


Lithium-ion Car Battery

Increasing Electric Car Battery Performance

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (20) | comments 10

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have found that by replacing conventional graphite electrodes with silicon nanotube electrodes, lithium-ion batteries can store 10 times more charge.


Could a paper transistor offer an alternative to silicon?

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- As technology advances, scientists look for ways to enhance electronic applications and devices. Indeed, electronics are getting smaller and more diverse. And as this happens, there is an increased requirement ...