News tagged with fountain pen

Researchers deconstruct the physics of writing with a fountain pen

Wetting a fountain pen to compose a thank-you note is a grand way to express gratitude for a holiday gift, yet we often don’t give a thought to what happens when ink moves from pen to paper. But for a ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 30, 2011 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (17) | comments 20 | with audio podcast




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Experts determine age of book 'nobody can read'

(PhysOrg.com) -- While enthusiasts across the world pored over the Voynich manuscript, one of the most mysterious writings ever found – penned by an unknown author in a language no one understands – ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Feb 10, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (80) | comments 64 | with audio podcast

Small wires make big connections for microelectronics

University of Illinois engineers have developed a novel direct-writing method for manufacturing metal interconnects that could shrink integrated circuits and expand microelectronics.

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jul 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nanoscale 'Fountain Pen' Draws Therapeutic Nanodiamonds

A research team at Northwestern University has developed a tool that can precisely deliver tiny doses of drug-carrying nanomaterials to individual cells. The tool, called the nanofountain probe, functions in two different ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New tool for next-generation cancer treatments using nanodiamonds

A research team at Northwestern University has demonstrated a tool that can precisely deliver tiny doses of drug-carrying nanomaterials to individual cells.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 18, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Researchers write protein nanoarrays using a fountain pen and electric fields

Nanotechnology offers unique opportunities to advance the life sciences by facilitating the delivery, manipulation and observation of biological materials with unprecedented resolution. The ability to pattern nanoscale arrays ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Oct 13, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 1

New process makes nanofibers in complex shapes and unlimited lengths

The continuous fabrication of complex, three-dimensional nanoscale structures and the ability to grow individual nanowires of unlimited length are now possible with a process developed by researchers at the University of ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 30, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (35) | comments 4

A new technology for cancer screening listens for the signs of cancer

Cancer-sensing devices built as cheaply and efficiently as wristwatches – using many of the same operating principles – could change the way clinicians detect, treat and monitor cancer in patients. Researchers ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 18, 2007 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

IBM Researchers Demonstrate New Method for Rapid Molecule Sorting and Delivery

IBM researchers have demonstrated a new nanoscale method that both rapidly separates very small numbers of molecules and also delivers them precisely onto surfaces with unprecedented control. When fully developed, ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 02, 2006 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (59) | comments 0

Researchers develop portable 'Vein Finder' for faster, more accurate injections

A team of Georgia Institute of Technology researchers is developing an inexpensive, handheld device that could help medical personnel provide faster and more accurate injections. The devices uses Doppler ultrasound ...

Other Sciences /

created Jan 17, 2006 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The World’s Smallest Fountain Pen?

The miniscule tip on an atomic-force microscope (AFM) helps researchers both "see" and manipulate the nanoscale environment. Now, engineers have created two novel technologies that enable such tips to write ...

Nanotechnology /

created Oct 05, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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