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New Process Creates 3-D Nanostructures with Magnetic Materials

June 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 11 vote(s) | No comments yet

Materials scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a process to build complex, three-dimensional nanoscale structures of magnetic materials such as nickel or nickel-iron ...


New Nanowire-Based Memory Could Beef Up Information Storage

July 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 54 vote(s) | User comments: 5

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 ...


New nano technique significantly boosts boiling efficiency

June 26, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 45 vote(s) | User comments: 4

Whoever penned the old adage "a watched pot never boils" surely never tried to heat up water in a pot lined with copper nanorods.


Material may help autos turn heat into electricity

20 hours ago | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 25 vote(s) | User comments: 11

Researchers have invented a new material that will make cars even more efficient, by converting heat wasted through engine exhaust into electricity. In the current issue of the journal Science, they describe a material ...


'Nanonet' circuits closer to making flexible electronics reality

July 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 23 vote(s) | User comments: 3

Researchers have overcome a major obstacle in producing transistors from networks of carbon nanotubes, a technology that could make it possible to print circuits on plastic sheets for applications including ...


Engineers Prove Graphene is the Strongest Material

July 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 32 vote(s) | User comments: 18

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research scientists at Columbia University’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science have achieved a breakthrough by proving that the carbon material graphene is the strongest ...


Using magnetic nanoparticles to combat cancer

July 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 17 vote(s) | User comments: 1

Scientists at Georgia Tech have developed a potential new treatment against cancer that attaches magnetic nanoparticles to cancer cells, allowing them to be captured and carried out of the body. The treatment, ...


Physicists Produce Quantum-Entangled Images

June 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 32 vote(s) | User comments: 6

Using a convenient and flexible method for creating twin light beams, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland (UM) have produced “quantum images,” ...


Nano-sized electronic circuit promises bright view of early universe

July 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 20 vote(s) | User comments: 3

A newly developed nano-sized electronic device is an important step toward helping astronomers see invisible light dating from the creation of the universe. This invisible light makes up 98% of the light emitted ...


Carbon Nanotube Windmills Powered by 'Electron Wind'

July 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 63 vote(s) | User comments: 13

Theoretical physicists from Lancaster University in the UK have designed a nanomotor that operates by a novel mechanism: an electron wind.


Nanoparticle Research Points to Energy Savings

July 23, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 12 vote(s) | User comments: 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Adding just the right dash of nanoparticles to standard mixes of lubricants and refrigerants could yield the equivalent of an energy-saving chill pill for factories, hospitals, ships, and ...


Nanoparticles Detect Telomerase Activity

19 hours ago | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 9 vote(s) | User comments: 3

Telomerase, an enzyme that prevents chromosomes from shortening when they divide, is widely suspected of playing a key role in making cancer cells immortal. Though researchers have developed a variety of methods for measuring ...


Quantum Rod System May Safely 'Sneak' Drugs, Diagnostics into Brain

July 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 10 vote(s) | User comments: 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- A unique nanoparticle system developed by University at Buffalo scientists takes advantage of the versatility of bioconjugated quantum rods to ferry novel diagnostic and therapeutic agents ...


Study reveals principles behind stability and electronic properties of gold nanoclusters

July 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 12 vote(s) | User comments: 3

A report published in the July 8 issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) is the first to describe the principles behind the stability and electronic properties ...


Researchers report finer lines for microchips: Advance could lead to next-generation computer chips, solar cells

July 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 46 vote(s) | User comments: 4

MIT researchers have achieved a significant advance in nanoscale lithographic technology, used in the manufacture of computer chips and other electronic devices, to make finer patterns of lines over larger ...


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