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Nano-sized electronic circuit promises bright view of early universe

Jul 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 20 vote(s) | pda version

A newly developed nano-sized electronic device is an important step toward helping astronomers see invisible light dating from the creation of the universe. This invisible light makes up 98% of the light emitted ...


New nanotech research to enhance future digital imaging

Jul 10, 2008 | User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 5 vote(s) | pda version

A team of researchers from Northeastern’s Electronic Materials Research Institute has published research that has resulted in a new breakthrough in the field of nanophotonics, the study of light at the nanoscale level.


Scientists show how some solids mimic liquids on nanoscale

Feb 01, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 8 vote(s) | pda version

A University of Waterloo physics and astronomy research team, in a paper to be published Friday in Science Magazine, shows how some solids behave like liquids on the nanoscale.


Drawing nanoscale features the fast and easy way

Sep 10, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 34 vote(s) | pda version

Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new technique for nanolithography that is extremely fast and capable of being used in a range of environments including air (outside a vacuum) ...


DNA used as a template for nanolithography

Aug 31, 2007 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 18 vote(s) | pda version

DNA is one of the most popular building blocks of nanotechnology and is commonly used to construct ordered nanoscale structures with controlled architectures. For the most part, DNA is looked upon as a promising building ...


Researchers directly deposit gold nanoparticles in suspension

Aug 09, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 12 vote(s) | pda version

The delivery, manipulation and assembly of functional materials such as metal nanoparticles into predefined architectures and patterns is of great interest in nanotechnology. Nanoscale patterns of nanoparticles have the potential ...


Automation of Nanotech Manufacturing May Be Ahead

Aug 01, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 21 vote(s) | pda version

In an assist in the quest for ever smaller electronic devices, Duke University engineers have adapted a decades-old computer aided design and manufacturing process to reproduce nanosize structures with features ...


New lens device will shrink huge light waves to pinpoints

Jul 12, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 92 vote(s) | pda version

Manipulating light waves, or electromagnetic radiation, has led to many technologies, from cameras to lasers to medical imaging machines that can see inside the human body.


If it wiggles, it must be jellyfish swimming -- or atoms moving in glass

Jul 03, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 7 vote(s) | pda version

The scientist who first compared the movements of atoms in glass to the wiggling of jellyfish in water has won the top award in the field of glass science.


The next big thing in molecular separation

May 15, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 27 vote(s) | pda version

A new sieve designed by a University of Alberta graduate student could be the next big thing in separating molecules using really, really small devices.


Nano Printing Technique Produces Model Membranes

Feb 20, 2007 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 16 vote(s) | pda version

An international team of investigators based in the United States and Germany has modified the nanoscale printing technique known as dip-pen nanolithography to create large numbers of model cell membranes. This method, published ...


Researchers Improve Understanding of Mechanical Properties of Carbon Nanotubes

Dec 20, 2006 | User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 15 vote(s) | pda version

Carbon nanotubes are tiny garden-hose-like hollow tubes that have considerable promise for future applications such as nano-sized plumbing and nanolithography, and for the creation of numerous tiny devices such as mass sensors ...


Taking nanolithography beyond semiconductors

Dec 14, 2006 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 21 vote(s) | pda version

A new process for chemical patterning combines molecular self-assembly with traditional lithography to create multifunctional surfaces in precise patterns at the molecular level. The process allows scientists ...


A simple method for making Lilliputian cups

Nov 20, 2006 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 5 vote(s) | pda version

The technology for making ultrasmall containers - essential in a wide range of modern scientific research - has taken a giant step forward with new research by scientists in India.


55,000 tiny Thomas Jeffersons show power of new method

Sep 26, 2006 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 48 vote(s) | pda version

Ever since the invention of the first scanning probe microscope in 1981, researchers have believed the powerful tool would someday be used for the nanofabrication and nanopatterning of surfaces in a molecule-by-molecule, ...


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