Flower-shaped nanoparticles may lead to better batteries for portable electronics September 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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Want more power and longer battery life for that cell phone, laptop, and digital music player? "Flower power" may be the solution. Chemists are reporting development of flower-shaped nanoparticles with superior electronic ... | |
New carbon nanomaterial shows promise of storing large quantities of renewable electrical energy September 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 49 vote(s)
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Engineers and scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have achieved a breakthrough in the use of a one-atom thick structure called "graphene" as a new carbon-based material for storing electrical charge in ultracapacitor ... | |
 Scientists Create Quantum Cascade Laser Nanoantenna October 23, 2007 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 54 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 25 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 ... | |
 Nanodisk Codes December 27, 2007 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 50 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 ... | |
New nanostructured thin film shows promise for efficient solar energy conversion January 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 54 vote(s)
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In the race to make solar cells cheaper and more efficient, many researchers and start-up companies are betting on new designs that exploit nanostructures--materials engineered on the scale of a billionth of a meter. Using ... | |
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: 4.6 / 5 after 114 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 ... | |
 Single-crystal semiconductor wire built into an optical fiber March 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 30 vote(s)
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An international science team from Penn State University in the United States and the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom has developed a process for growing a single-crystal semiconductor inside ... | |
 Researchers achieve dramatic increase in thermoelectric efficiency March 20, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 47 vote(s)
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Researchers at Boston College and MIT have used nanotechnology to achieve a major increase in thermoelectric efficiency, a milestone that paves the way for a new generation of products — from semiconductors ... | |
 Popcorn-ball design doubles efficiency of dye-sensitized solar cells April 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 47 vote(s)
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A new approach creates a dramatic improvement in cheap solar cells now being developed in laboratories. | |
Sweet nanotech batteries: Nanotechnology could solve lithium battery charging problems April 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 31 vote(s)
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Nanotechnology could improve the life of the lithium batteries used in portable devices, including laptop computers, mp3 players, and mobile phones. Research to be published in the Inderscience publication - International ... | |
 'Sticky nanotubes' hold key to future technologies April 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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Researchers at Purdue University are the first to precisely measure the forces required to peel tiny nanotubes off of other materials, opening up the possibility of creating standards for nano-manufacturing ... | |
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