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A quicker, cheaper SARS virus detector -- one easily customizable for other targets

A quicker, cheaper SARS virus detector -- one easily customizable for other targets

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Members of a USC-led research team say they've made a big improvement in a new breed of electronic detectors for viruses and other biological materials — one that may be a valuable addition to the battle against ...


Flexible, transparent supercapacitors are latest devices from USC nanotube lab

Flexible, transparent supercapacitors -- bend and twist them like a poker card

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 10

It is a completely transparent and flexible energy conversion and storage device that you can bend and twist like a poker card.





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Will carbon nanotubes replace indium tin oxide?

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Up until now, George Grüner tells PhysOrg.com, most of the studies regarding the properties - and uses - of carbon nanotubes have been restricted to the visible spectral range. “We, however, were interested in the ...


Research helps understand factors that influence efficiency of organic-based devices

Research helps understand factors that influence efficiency of organic-based devices

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 08, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Organic-based devices, such as organic light-emitting diodes, require a transparent conductive layer with a high work function, meaning it promotes injection of electron holes into an organic layer to produce ...


Transparent solar cells

Transparent solar cells

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- If solar cells were transparent they could be fitted to windows and building facades. Physical modeling helps in the development of suitable materials for transparent electronics and thus ...


Researchers develop new method for producing transparent conductors

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at UCLA have developed a new method for producing a hybrid graphene-carbon nanotube, or G-CNT, for potential use as a transparent conductor in solar cells and consumer electronic devices. These ...


New aluminum-rich alloy produces hydrogen on-demand for large-scale uses

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Feb 19, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (102) | comments 7

Purdue University engineers have developed a new aluminum-rich alloy that produces hydrogen by splitting water and is economically competitive with conventional fuels for transportation and power generation.


Carbon nanotubes made into conductive, flexible 'stained glass'

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 09, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (30) | comments 0

Carbon nanotubes are promising materials for many high-technology applications due to their exceptional mechanical, thermal, chemical, optical and electrical properties.


Progress Toward a Biological Fuel Cell?

Chemistry /

created Dec 30, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Biological fuel cells use enzymes or whole microorganisms as biocatalysts for the direct conversion of chemical energy to electrical energy. One type of microbial fuel cell uses anodes (positive electrodes) ...


Danish nanowires have great potential

Danish nanowires have great potential

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Danish nanophysicists have developed a new method for manufacturing the cornerstone of nanotechnology research - nanowires. The discovery has great potential for the development of nanoelectronics and highly ...


Nanoflowers blossom

Nanoflowers blossom

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 27, 2006 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (18) | comments 0

University of Arkansas researchers have examined the mechanisms underlying the synthesis of three-dimensional nanocrystals in solution and have created a systematic method for the directed synthesis of such ...


New 'finFETS' promising for smaller transistors, more powerful chips

New 'finFETs' promising for smaller transistors, more powerful chips

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Purdue University researchers are making progress in developing a new type of transistor that uses a finlike structure instead of the conventional flat design, possibly enabling engineers ...



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