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At Stanford, nanotubes + ink + paper = equal instant battery (w/ Video)

At Stanford, nanotubes + ink + paper = equal instant battery (w/ Video)

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (27) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stanford scientists are harnessing nanotechnology to quickly produce ultra-lightweight, bendable batteries and supercapacitors in the form of everyday paper.


Scientists Build Nanostructures out of Single DNA Strands

Scientists Build Nanostructures out of Single DNA Strands

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 5 feature

(PhysOrg.com) -- With its unique double-helical structure, DNA has the ability to be used as a programmable building material to construct designer nanoscale architectures. Complex DNA architectures could ...


Researchers design new graphene-based, nano-material with magnetic properties

New graphene-based nanomaterial with magnetic properties designed

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (18) | comments 4

An international team of researchers has designed a new graphite-based, magnetic nano-material that acts as a semiconductor and could help material scientists create the next generation of electronic devices ...


Flexible OLED display one-step closer with organic light emitting material direct writing

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 27, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (25) | comments 2 feature

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the more interesting methods of pattern transfer available for a number of applications right now is Laser Induced Forward Transfer (LIFT). However, when working with organic material, there are some ...


Nanotech particles affect brain development in mice

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jul 28, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Maternal exposure to nanoparticles of titanium dioxide (TiO2) affects the expression of genes related to the central nervous system in developing mice. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Particle an ...


Nano-sandwich Triggers Novel Electron Behavior

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 04, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (14) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- A material just six atoms thick in which electrons appear to be guided by conflicting laws of physics depending on their direction of travel has been discovered by a team of physicists at the University of ...


'Buckyballs' to treat multiple sclerosis

'Buckyballs' to treat multiple sclerosis

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

If you're of a certain age, you'll remember Buckminster Fuller's distinctive "geodesic domes" - soccer-ball-shaped structures that the late futurist envisioned as ideal human domiciles. Tel Aviv University ...


Researchers Develop Material That Could Boost Data Storage, Save Energy

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (18) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- North Carolina State University engineers have created a new material that would allow a fingernail-size computer chip to store the equivalent of 20 high-definition DVDs or 250 million pages of text, far ...


Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles Catalyze Brain Tumor Death

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago Medical Center’s Brain Tumor Center have developed a way to target brain cancer cells using ...


Graphene bolsters battery work, biosensors

A flash of light turns graphene into a biosensor

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Biomedical researchers suspect graphene, a novel nanomaterial made of sheets of single carbon atoms, would be useful in a variety of applications. But no one had studied the interaction between ...


Death by light: Nanoparticles as agents for the photodynamic killing of antibiotic-resistant bacteria

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The increasing antibiotic resistance of bacteria is a serious problem of our time. Hospital germs in particular have developed strains against which practically every current antibiotic is ineffective. In ...


Researchers Produce Best-Yet Dye-Based Solar Cells

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 31, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (67) | comments 8 feature

In work that may help solar panels become a more viable source of mainstream power, a research group has created a dye-based solar cell with a high efficiency and high stability, and that lacks the volatile chemicals used ...


Scientists develop targeted cancer treatment using nanomaterials

Scientists develop targeted cancer treatment using nanomaterials

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Aug 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago's Brain Tumor Center have developed a way to target brain cancer cells using inorganic ...


Carbon Nanotubes Continue To Show Promise in Battle Against Cancer

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jun 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Carbon nanotubes, one of the original engineered nanomaterials, also may prove to be among the most versatile, as numerous teams of investigators continue to develop novel nanotube-based therapeutic and diagnostic tools. ...


Scientists advance safety of nanotechnology

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 11, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Scientists have identified for the first time a mechanism by which nanoparticles cause lung damage and have demonstrated that it can be combated by blocking the process involved, taking a step toward addressing the growing ...