New techniques make carbon-based integrated circuits more practical

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

Dec 09, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (13) | 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stanford engineers have built what they believe is a chip with the most advanced computing and storage elements made of carbon nanotubes to date by devising a way to root out the stubborn ...

Nanotube defects equal better energy and storage systems

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Nov 19, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (11) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Most people would like to be able to charge their cell phones and other personal electronics quickly and not too often. A recent discovery made by UC San Diego engineers could lead to carbon ...

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

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

Nov 20, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (9) | 0

(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. ...

Fujitsu Announces World's First Operation of 100W-Class Amplifiers Employing Carbon Nanotubes

Technology / Semiconductors

Dec 11, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (6) | 1

Fujitsu Laboratories today announced that, using carbon nanotubes as heat-dissipation material in amplifier transistors, Fujitsu has become the first to achieve the successful operation of high-frequency, ...

Nanotech in Space: Experiment To Weather the Trials of Orbit

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Nov 24, 2009 | 4 / 5 (2) | 0

Novel nanomaterials developed at Rensselaer were sent into orbit on Nov. 16 aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis.

Combining nanotubes and antibodies for breast cancer 'search and destroy' missions

Medicine & Health / Cancer

Dec 02, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

cylinders of carbon about a nanometer in diameter -- have been highly touted for potential applications such as ultrastrong fibers, electrical wires in molecular devices, or hydrogen storage components for ...