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Scientists carve functional nanoribbons using super-heated, nano-sized particles of iron

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 31, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (26) | comments 2

Due to its remarkable electronic properties, few layer graphene, or FLG, has emerged as a promising new material for use in post-silicon devices that incorporate the quantum effects that emerge at the nanoscale. Now, physicists ...





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Foresight Institute Announces Feynman Prize Winners

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Foresight Institute, a nanotechnology education and public policy think tank based in Palo Alto, has announced the winners of the prestigious 2009 Foresight Institute Feynman Prizes in Nanotechnology.


Scientists prove graphene's edge structure affects electronic properties

Scientists prove graphene's edge structure affects electronic properties

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 15, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Graphene, a single-atom-thick sheet of carbon, holds remarkable promise for future nanoelectronics applications. Whether graphene actually cuts it in industry, however, depends upon how graphene ...


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EU unveils more precise satnav system

Technology / Telecom

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (6) | comments 7

(AP) -- The European Union has unveiled an updated satellite navigation system that is up to five times more precise than the current GPS system.


Highlight: STM banopatterning on pristine Nb-doped SrTiO3 surfaces

Highlight: STM banopatterning on pristine Nb-doped SrTiO3 surfaces

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Collaborative users from the Advanced Photon Source at the Argonne National Laboratory, working with the Electronic & Magnetic Materials & Devices Group, have found a controllable way to modify the surfaces ...


Researchers develop method for mass production of nanogap electrodes

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 16, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a reliable, reproducible method for parallel fabrication of multiple nanogap electrodes, a development crucial to the creation of mass-produced nanoscale electronics.


Oil Worth Its Weight in Gold in Directed Nanomachining

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created May 25, 2005 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The world of nano-machines has moved a step closer to reality, thanks to researchers who have found a way to sculpt material at the nanoscale in a predictable, controllable and inexpensive manner by using a conducting liquid ...


California teens use Rice's NanoKids for virtual nanotech training

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 21, 2006 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

A team of "virtual" teachers developed by a Rice University nanotechnology researcher are going to help some of California's brightest high school students design, build and test new structures, one atom at a time.


More precise measurements of the W boson

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (16) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- "The W boson is one of the very few major building blocks of matter," Dmitri Denisov tells PhysOrg.com. "It is a member of a family of particles that is the most fundamental in nature. The W boson is res ...


Superconductivity Physicists Puzzled by the Weird Behavior of Electrons

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created Jul 30, 2004 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The weird behavior of electrons tunneling across an atomically flat interface within a cuprate superconductor has defied explanation by theories of high-temperature superconductivity. As will be reported in the journal Physical Review Letters, a team of scientists l ...


Cellular Source of Most Common Type of Abnormal Heart Beat Found

Cellular Source of Most Common Type of Abnormal Heart Beat Found

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- While studying how the heart is formed, scientists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine serendipitously found a novel cellular source of atrial fibrillation (AF), the most ...



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