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Scientists create world's thinnest balloon, just 1 atom thick
Sep 19, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Using a lump of graphite, a piece of Scotch tape and a silicon wafer, Cornell researchers have created a balloonlike membrane that is just one atom thick -- but strong enough to contain gases ...
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Scientists develop the world's thinnest balloon
Aug 11, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in New York are reporting development of the world's thinnest balloon, made of a single layer of graphite just one atom thick. This so-called graphene sealed microchamber is impermeable ...
Physics graduate creates graphene resonator
Feb 18, 2007 |
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In the world of cutting-edge physics, discoveries are often made using intricate procedures and elaborate, expensive instruments. But a paper by Cornell graduate student Scott Bunch and colleagues shows how ...
Scientists discover ground-breaking material: Graphane
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jan 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at The University of Manchester have produced a ground-breaking new material, graphane, which has been derived from graphene.
Graphene pioneers follow in Nobel footsteps
Sep 02, 2008 |
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Two physicists from The University of Manchester who discovered the world's thinnest material have scooped a major award for their work.
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 ...
One-atom-thick materials promise a 'new industrial revolution'
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Jul 21, 2005 |
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Scientists at The University of Manchester have discovered a new class of materials which have previously only existed in science fiction films and books. A team of British and Russian scientists led by Professor Geim hav ...
Thinnest superconducting metal created
Jun 08, 2009 |
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A superconducting sheet of lead only two atoms thick, the thinnest superconducting metal layer ever created, has been developed by physicists at The University of Texas at Austin.
Intel Offers Developer Kit For Future Atom Processor Netbook Apps
Dec 03, 2009 |
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Intel Corporation has made its beta version of the Intel Atom Developer Program Software Development Kit (SDK) available for Microsoft Windows and Moblin operating systems developers. The kit helps software companies and ...
Graphene used to create world's smallest transistor
Apr 17, 2008 |
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Researchers have used the world's thinnest material to create the world's smallest transistor, one atom thick and ten atoms wide.
Researchers Make Breakthrough in Nanotechnology by Uncovering Conductive Property of Carbon-based Molecules
Apr 17, 2008 |
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University of Pittsburgh researchers have discovered that certain organic—or carbon-based—molecules exhibit the properties of atoms under certain circumstances and, in turn, conduct electricity as well as metal. Detailed ...
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