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Researchers find better way to manufacture fast computer chips

Researchers Find Better Way To Manufacture Fast Computer Chips

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (13) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers at Ohio State University are developing a technique for mass producing computer chips made from the same material found in pencils.





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In 'novel playground,' metals are formed into porous nanostructures

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 27, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (21) | comments 2

For 5,000 years or so, the only way to shape metal has been to "heat and beat." Even in modern nanotechnology, working with metals involves carving with electron beams or etching with acid.


Researchers form metal nanoparticles into porous structures

Researchers form metal nanoparticles into porous structures

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 27, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (10) | comments 1

For 5,000 years or so, the only way to shape metal has been to "heat and beat." Even in modern nanotechnology, working with metals involves carving with electron beams or etching with acid.


New nanoscale process will help computers run faster and more efficiently

New nanoscale process will help computers run faster and more efficiently

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 25, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (41) | comments 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- Smaller. Faster. More efficient. These are the qualities that drive science and industry to create new nanoscale structures that will help to speed up computers.


Super honeycomb shows more potential for carbon nanotubes

Super honeycomb shows more potential for carbon nanotubes

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 19, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (40) | comments 0

The hexagonal network structure makes these nanotubes look a bit like a honeycomb—or, when stretched a bit, like a hammock or fish net. In fact, the stretchiness of these 20-nm-long carbon nanotubes enables ...


Giant memory thanks to tiny capacitors

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jun 25, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (42) | comments 10

German-Korean research team produces a permanent memory using a new procedure and thereby sets a memory density record.


Molecules spontaneously form honeycomb network featuring pores of unprecedented size

Molecules spontaneously form honeycomb network featuring pores of unprecedented size

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Aug 17, 2006 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (44) | comments 0

UC Riverside researchers have discovered a new way in which nature creates complex patterns: the assembly of molecules with no guidance from an outside source. Potential applications of the finding are paints, ...


Scientists create the first synthetic nanoscale fractal molecule

Scientists create the first synthetic nanoscale fractal molecule

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 11, 2006 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (35) | comments 0

From snowflakes to the leaves on a tree, objects in nature are made of irregular molecules called fractals. Scientists now have created and captured an image of the largest man-made fractal molecule at the ...


Breakthrough in bubble research at Bath

New breakthrough in bubble research

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

A researcher from the University of Bath has found a new approach to an old geometric problem of modelling the most efficient way of packing shapes to form a foam.


Engineers whip up the first long-lived nanoscale bubbles

Engineers whip up the first long-lived nanoscale bubbles

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 29, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (19) | comments 1

With the aid of kitchen mixers, engineers at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have whipped up, for the first time, permanent nanoscale bubbles – bubbles that endure for more than ...


Novel structure proteins could play a role in apoptosis

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 24, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Isoforms from Novel Structure Proteins (NSP), a new family of genes discovered by researchers in the Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine in Temple University's College of Science and Technology, could ...



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