Search results for nanoscience:
Breakthrough: Scientists used nanotubes to send signals to nerve cells
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
May 08, 2006 |
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Texas scientists have added one more trick to the amazing repertoire of carbon nanotubes -- the ability to carry electrical signals to nerve cells.
Scientists design new super-hard material
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 20, 2007 |
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Ultra-hard materials are used for everything from drills that bore for oil and build new roads to scratch-resistant coatings for precision instruments and the face of your watch.
Physicists discover how fundamental particles lose track of quantum mechanical properties
Mar 13, 2008 |
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In today’s Science Express, the advance online publication of the journal Science, researchers report a series of experiments that mark an important step toward understanding a longstanding fundamental physics problem of qu ...
Researchers create world's first transparent integrated circuit
Mar 18, 2006 |
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Researchers at Oregon State University have created the world's first completely transparent integrated circuit from inorganic compounds, another major step forward for the rapidly evolving field of transparent electronics.
New nanoscale engineering breakthrough points to hydrogen-powered vehicles
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 05, 2007 |
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Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have developed an advanced concept in nanoscale catalyst engineering – a combination of experiments and simulations that will bring ...
Feeling the Heat: Berkeley Researchers Make Thermoelectric Breakthrough in Silicon Nanowires
Jan 10, 2008 |
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Energy now lost as heat during the production of electricity could be harnessed through the use of silicon nanowires synthesized via a technique developed by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy’s ...
Scientists rotate electron spin with electric field
Nov 01, 2007 |
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Researchers at the Delft University of Technology’s Kavli Institute of Nanoscience and the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM) have succeeded in controlling the spin of a single electron merely ...
Scientists Make 'Perfect' Nanowires
Jan 23, 2008 |
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Scientists have created silicon nanowires that are perfect—at least atomically. Down at the single-atom level, the identical wires have no bumps, bends, or other imperfections. They are perfectly crystalline, even more so ...
Nanoscience May Produce 'Perfect' Materials
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 25, 2006 |
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Nanoscience may provide a way to engineer materials that are virtually defect-free – perfect, that is.
Nanogenerators May Spark Miniature Machines (Update)
Apr 13, 2006 |
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Researchers have developed a new technique for powering nanometer-scale devices without the need for bulky energy sources such as batteries. By converting mechanical energy from body movement, muscle stretching ...
Scientists pin down causes of dust eruptions
Physics /
Apr 18, 2006 |
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By simple light and heat mechanisms, dust particles seem to defy gravity and leap up into the air. The effect, which once played a role in the formation of the Earth and asteroids, could also have applications ...
UCLA researchers design nanomachine that kills cancer cells
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Apr 01, 2008 |
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Researchers from the Nano Machine Center at the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA have developed a novel type of nanomachine that can capture and store anticancer drugs inside tiny pores and release them into cancer ...
Toward Building Molecular Computers
Jan 24, 2007 |
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Don't throw away your laptop yet, but there's a promising new high-tech invention being announced this week. Researchers have created a memory circuit the size of a white blood cell that has enough capacity ...
Discovery of new family of pseudo-metallic chemicals
Apr 24, 2007 |
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The periodic table of elements, all 111 of them, just got a little competition. A new discovery by a University of Missouri-Columbia research team, published in Angewandte Chemie allows scientists to manipulate a molecule discov ...
New wood-plastic composites to boost industry, help use waste products
Oct 03, 2006 |
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Wood science researchers in the College of Forestry at Oregon State University have developed new wood-plastic composites that are stronger and less expensive than any similar products now available – a major breakthrough ...
