 Graphene used to create world's smallest transistor April 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 50 vote(s)
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Researchers have used the world's thinnest material to create the world's smallest transistor, one atom thick and ten atoms wide. | |
Nanotechnology paves way for super iPods April 18, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 50 vote(s)
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A breakthrough by scientists from the University of Glasgow could see the storage capacity of an iPod increase 150,000 times. | |
 Go Speed Racer! Revving up the world's fastest nanomotors May 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 25 vote(s)
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In a “major step” toward a practical energy source for powering tomorrow’s nanomachines, researchers in Arizona report development of a new generation of sub-microscopic nanomotors that are up to 10 times ... | |
By adding graphene, researchers create superior polymer May 19, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 46 vote(s)
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Researchers at Northwestern University and Princeton University have created a new kind of polymer that, because of its extraordinary thermal and mechanical properties, could be used in everything from airplanes to solar ... | |
 Physicists Store Images in Vapor June 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 89 vote(s)
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Books are written on solid pieces of paper for an obvious reason: the atoms in a solid don’t move around much, keeping the words and pictures in place for centuries. Trying to store letters and images in a ... | |
 New nano technique significantly boosts boiling efficiency June 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 33 vote(s)
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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 Nanowire-Based Memory Could Beef Up Information Storage July 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 45 vote(s)
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Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have created a type of nanowire-based information storage device that is capable of storing three bit values rather than the usual two—that is, "0," "1," and ... | |
 Scientists Create Quantum Cascade Laser Nanoantenna October 23, 2007 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 53 vote(s)
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In a major feat of nanotechnology engineering researchers from Harvard University have demonstrated a laser with a wide-range of potential applications in chemistry, biology and medicine. Called a quantum ... | |
Nano-sized voltmeter measures electric fields deep within cells November 30, 2007 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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A wireless, nano-scale voltmeter developed at the University of Michigan is overturning conventional wisdom about the physical environment inside cells. It may someday help researchers tackle such tricky medical issues as ... | |
Nanowire battery holds 10 times the charge of existing ones December 18, 2007 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 185 vote(s)
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Stanford researchers have found a way to use silicon nanowires to reinvent the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that power laptops, iPods, video cameras, cell phones, and countless other devices. | |
 Nanodisk Codes December 27, 2007 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 49 vote(s)
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Researchers at Northwestern University have devised a way to use billionth-of-a-meter-sized disks to create codes that could be used to encrypt information, serve as biological labels, and even tag and track ... | |
DNA is blueprint, contractor and construction worker for new structures January 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 35 vote(s)
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DNA is the blueprint of all life, giving instruction and function to organisms ranging from simple one-celled bacteria to complex human beings. Now Northwestern University researchers report they have used DNA as the blueprint, ... | |
Small graphene wires may be poor conductors February 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Ohio University physicists researching electron properties in graphene ribbons have found that narrow wires made of this material may not be good conductors. | |
Magnetic atoms of gold, silver and copper have been obtained February 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 48 vote(s)
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An international team led by Physics and Chemistry teams from the Faculty of Science and Technology at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and directed by Professor Jose Javier Saiz Garitaonandia, has achieved, ... | |
 Quantum Dots May Lead to Rainbow Solar Cell March 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 107 vote(s)
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For the first time, researchers have created solar cells made of different-sized quantum dots, each tuned to a specific wavelength of light. By arranging these quantum dots in an ordered pattern, the scientists ... | |
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