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Infrared Nanotube Films Offer Advantages for Solar Cells and More

Infrared Nanotube Films Offer Advantages for Solar Cells and More

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 0 feature

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have already known that carbon nanotube thin films have mechanical and conductive advantages that could make them useful as electrodes in solar cells, solid state lighting, and ...


Researchers create the first thermal nanomotor in the world

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 15, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Researchers from the UAB Research Park have created the first nanomotor that is propelled by changes in temperature. A carbon nanotube is capable of transporting cargo and rotating like a conventional motor, but is a million ...


Carbon nanotubes could make efficient solar cells

Carbon nanotubes could make efficient solar cells

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (21) | comments 13

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cornell researchers fabricated, tested and measured a simple solar cell called a photodiode, formed from an individual carbon nanotube.


New kind of transistor radios shows capability of nanotube technology

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 28, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (30) | comments 1

Carbon nanotubes have a sound future in the electronics industry, say researchers who built the world’s first all-nanotube transistor radios to prove it.


Carbon-Nanotube Memory that Really Competes

Carbon-Nanotube Memory that Really Competes

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 26, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (21) | comments 4 feature

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in Finland have created a form of carbon-nanotube based information storage that is comparable in speed to a type of memory commonly used in memory cards and USB "jump" drives.


Tweezers Trap Nanotubes by Color

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 26, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Singled-walled carbon nanotubes are graphene sheets wrapped into tubes, and are typically made up of various sizes and with different amounts of twist (also known as chiralities). Each type of nanotube has its own electronic ...


Carbon Nanotube Artificial Muscles for Extreme Temperatures

Carbon Nanotube Artificial Muscles for Extreme Temperatures

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 20, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (18) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the UT Dallas Alan G. MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute have demonstrated a fundamentally new type of artificial muscle, which can operate at extreme temperatures where no other ...


Scientists Track Heat in Tiny Rolls of Carbon Atoms

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- IBM Research scientists today announced a landmark study in the field of nanoelectronics; the development and demonstration of novel techniques to measure the distribution of energy and heat in powered carbon ...


Video shows nanotube spins as it grows

Video shows nanotube spins as it grows (w/ Videos)

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 27, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- New video showing the atom-by-atom growth of carbon nanotubes reveals they rotate as they grow, much like the halting motion of a mechanical clock's second hand. Published online this month ...


'Nano violin string'

'Nano violin string' made of vibrating carbon nanotube (w/ Video)

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 24, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 3

Researchers at TU Delft, The Netherlands, have succeeded in measuring the influence of a single electron on a vibrating carbon nanotube. This research can be important for work such as the development of ultra-small ...


New Hybrid Nanostructure

New hybrid nanostructures detect nanoscale magnetism

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 08, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 0

A key challenge of nanotechnology research is investigating how different materials behave at lengths of merely one-billionth of a meter. When shrunk to such tiny sizes, many everyday materials exhibit interesting ...


Simulations help explain fast water transport in nanotubes

Simulations help explain fast water transport in nanotubes

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 16, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- By discovering the physical mechanism behind the rapid transport of water in carbon nanotubes, scientists at the University of Illinois have moved a step closer to ultra-efficient, next-generation ...


Using superconducting probes to get a picture of what it's like inside CNTs

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 0 feature

(PhysOrg.com) -- "Carbon nanotubes are exciting for fundamental physics, and for potential technological applications," Nadya Mason tells PhysOrg.com. "However, we are generally limited in the way that we can study them. ...


Nanotubes Go With the Flow

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 23, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (12) | comments 1

Carbon nanotubes are attractive candidates for use as the active elements in the next generation of electronic devices. However, it has proven incredibly difficult to align nanotubes within device architectures.


Nanotube production leaps from sooty mess in test tube to ready formed chemical microsensors

Nanotube production leaps from sooty mess in test tube to ready formed chemical microsensors

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 06, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (24) | comments 0

Carbon nanotubes’ potential as a super material is blighted by the fact that when first made they often take the form of an unprepossessing pile of sooty black mess in the bottom of a test tube. Now researchers ...