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Important Twist in Supercapacitor Research

Important Twist in Supercapacitor Research

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 19, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (185) | comments 15

(PhysOrg.com) -- Car batteries as we know them today may soon be relics. Storing energy in clunky containers with limited shelf lives has plagued car makers and military engineers who need lightweight, powerful ...


Breakthrough for carbon nanotube materials

Breakthrough for carbon nanotube materials

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 29, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (84) | comments 15

(PhysOrg.com) -- In collaboration with scientists from the NanoTech Institute of the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) – CSIRO has achieved a major breakthrough in the development of a commercially-viable ...


Scientists fabricate first plasma transistor

Scientists fabricate first plasma transistor

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Nov 12, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (84) | comments 8

Since their development in the 1940s, transistors have been at the heart of computers and other modern electronic devices. Transistors - whose job is to start, stop, or amplify electric current - come in all ...


Nanopencil Can Provide Terabit Data Storage Density

Nanopencil Can Provide Terabit Data Storage Density

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 22, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (56) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have fabricated a 'nanopencil' with a tip so small that it can be used as a scanning probe in ultrahigh-density computer data storage systems.


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New material could speed development of hydrogen powered vehicles

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 06, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (55) | comments 21

Researchers in Greece report design of a new material that almost meets the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) 2010 goals for hydrogen storage and could help eliminate a key roadblock to practical hydrogen-powered ...


Engineers Prove Graphene is the Strongest Material

Engineers Prove Graphene is the Strongest Material

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 22, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (46) | comments 25

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research scientists at Columbia University’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science have achieved a breakthrough by proving that the carbon material graphene is the strongest ...


First STM spectroscopy of graphene flakes yields new surprises

First STM spectroscopy of graphene flakes yields new surprises

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 21, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (40) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have performed the first scanning tunneling spectroscopy of ...


3D nanotube assembly technique for nanoscale electronics

3D nanotube assembly technique for nanoscale electronics

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 22, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (41) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the past several years, researchers have been trying to take advantage of carbon nanotubes’ good electrical properties for future nanoscale electronics applications. One of the biggest ...


Carbon nanoballs as data storage units

Carbon nanoballs as data storage units

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (38) | comments 4

Small, smaller, "nano" data storage! Interest is growing in the use of metallofullerenes - carbon “cages” with embedded metallic compounds - as materials for miniature data storage devices. Researchers at ...


Hydrogen generation without the carbon footprint

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 15, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (38) | comments 0

A greener, less expensive method to produce hydrogen for fuel may eventually be possible with the help of water, solar energy and nanotube diodes that use the entire spectrum of the sun's energy, according to Penn State researchers. ...


Engineers show nanotube circuits can be made en masse

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 04, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (32) | comments 1

Most innovations don't go far unless there is a way to turn them into products that are manufacturable on a mass scale. That's why new research on carbon nanotubes, presented June 19 by a group of Stanford electrical engineers, ...


'Nanonet' circuits closer to making flexible electronics reality

'Nanonet' circuits closer to making flexible electronics reality

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 23, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (32) | comments 3

Researchers have overcome a major obstacle in producing transistors from networks of carbon nanotubes, a technology that could make it possible to print circuits on plastic sheets for applications including ...


How Perfect Can Graphene Be?

How Perfect Can Graphene Be?

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (30) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists have investigated the purest graphene to date, and have found that the material possesses unprecedented high electronic quality. The discovery has raised the bar for this relatively ...


Prototype Disc

Scientists print dense lattice of transparent nanotube transistors on flexible base

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 16, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (28) | comments 2

It's a clear, colorless disk about 5 inches in diameter that bends and twists like a playing card, with a lattice of more than 20,000 nanotube transistors capable of high-performance electronics printed upon ...


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Ultra-Long Carbon Nanotubes Could Serve as Future Transmission Lines

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (28) | comments 15

(PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to carbon nanotubes, the majority of research so far has focused on small-scale applications. But now, a team of researchers from Rice University has created carbon nanotubes ...