News tagged with nano scale
Paper electrified by copper particles
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 16, 2009 |
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The Polymer Chemistry Research Group at the University of Helsinki, Finland, has succeeded in producing nano-sized metallic copper particles. When the size of particles is reduced to a nano-scale (one nanometre being one ...
Single molecule tracking helps reveal mechanism of chromosome separation in dividing cells
Mar 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Washington (UW) researchers are helping to write the operating manual for the nano-scale machine that separates chromosomes before cell division. The apparatus is called a spindle ...
New imaging method lets scientists 'see' cell molecules more clearly
Biology /
Jan 19, 2009 |
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Scientists have always wanted to take a closer look at biological systems and materials. From the magnifying glass to the electron microscope, they have developed ever-increasingly sophisticated imaging devices.
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Live recordings of cell communication
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Aug 06, 2009 |
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Neurons communicate with each other with the help of nano-sized vesicles. Disruption of this communication process is responsible for many diseases and mental disorders like e.g. depression. Nerve signals travel from one ...
Engineers revolutionize nano-device fabrication using amorphous metals
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Feb 11, 2009 |
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Yale engineers have created a process that may revolutionize the manufacture of nano-devices from computer memory to biomedical sensors by exploiting a novel type of metal. The material can be molded like plastics to create ...
Nanotechnology gets a new light touch
Oct 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Building the super-fast computers of the future has just become much easier thanks to an advance by Australian researchers that lets them grab hold of tiny electronics components and probe ...
Researchers produce nanowires easier, faster than before
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Feb 08, 2008 |
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Sometimes simpler is better. Engineering researchers at Texas A&M University have developed a new way to produce ultra-thin electricity-conducting wire that is simpler and faster than existing processes.
Researchers advance nano-scale electromechanical sensors
Nov 11, 2008 |
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Clemson physics professor Apparao Rao and his team are researching nano-scale cantilevers that have the potential to read and alert us to toxic chemicals or gases in the air. Put them into a small handheld device and the ...
Playing Pinball with Atoms
Oct 06, 2008 |
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With nanotechnology yielding a burgeoning menagerie of microscopic pumps, motors, and other machines for potential use in medicine and industry, here is one good question: How will humans turn those devices ...
Toward the next generation of high-efficiency plastic solar cells
Mar 17, 2008 |
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Researchers in the United States and Austria report an advance toward the next generation of plastic solar cells, which are widely heralded as a low cost, environmentally-friendly alternative to inorganic solar cells for ...
Tiny Test Tube Experiment Shows Reaction Of Melting Materials at the Nano Scale (w/ Video)
Oct 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have conducted a basic chemistry experiment in what is perhaps the world's smallest test tube, measuring a thousandth the diameter of a human hair.
Virginia Tech's proposed next generation nano-CT system will enhance nano-scale research
Sep 03, 2009 |
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In 1991, Ge Wang produced the first paper on spiral cone-beam computed tomography (CT), now an imaging technique used in the mainstream of the medical CT field. Today, Wang, known as a pioneer in this field, ...
Evidence of a Bose glass state?
Physics /
May 30, 2008 |
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"In nano-sized systems many physical properties are greatly altered from those of macroscopic-sized systems. Therefore, study of nano-sized systems, in general, is very important in developing fundamental physics," Keiya ...
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