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Findings suggest nanowires ideal for electronics manufacturing
Nov 13, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have discovered that tiny structures called silicon nanowires might be ideal for manufacturing in future computers and consumer electronics because they form the same way every ...
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It's raining pentagons
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 08, 2009 |
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This week's Nature Materials (09 March 2009) reveals how an international team of scientists led by researchers at the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) at UCL have discovered a novel one dimensional ice ch ...
New nano technique significantly boosts boiling efficiency
Jun 26, 2008 |
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Whoever penned the old adage "a watched pot never boils" surely never tried to heat up water in a pot lined with copper nanorods.
New finding bubbles to surface, challenging old view
Aug 20, 2007 |
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Chemical engineers have discovered a fundamental flaw in the conventional view of how liquids form bubbles that grow and turn into vapors, which takes place in everything from industrial processes to fizzing champagne.
Landmark modeling study reveals how ferroelectric computer memory works
Oct 10, 2007 |
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A collaboration of University of Pennsylvania chemists and engineers has performed multi-scale modeling of ferroelectric domain walls and provided a new theory of behavior for domain-wall motion, the “sliding ...
The smallest piece of ice reveals its true nature
Jun 21, 2007 |
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Collaborative research between scientists in the UK and Germany (published in this week’s Nature Materials) has led to a breakthrough in the understanding of the formation of ice.
New insight to demineralization
Jul 07, 2008 |
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From toothpaste to technology, noncrystalline or amorphous silica is an active ingredient in a myriad of products that we use in our daily lives. As a minor, but essential component of vertebrate bone, an understanding of ...
Traces of nanobubbles determine nano-boiling
Mar 30, 2007 |
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Using a microscope and some extreme “snapshot” photography with shutter speeds only a few nanoseconds long, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Cornell University have uncovered ...
Nanoscale materials grow with the flow (Videos)
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Feb 12, 2009 |
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Imagine unloading a pile of bricks onto the ground and watching the bricks assemble themselves into a level, straight wall in only a few minutes. While merely a fantasy for builders in the everyday world, ...
Faster than a Speeding Bubble
Apr 30, 2008 |
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What do melting chocolate and bubbles in a champagne glass have in common? Besides being treats one might sample at a sophisticated soiree, they are both handy examples of first-order phase transitions in ...
Insights into polymer film instability could aid high tech industries
Jan 13, 2009 |
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While exploring the properties of polymer formation, a team of scientists at the National Institute for Standards and Technology has made a fundamental discovery* about these materials that could improve methods ...
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