 Clemson scientists put a (nano) spring in their step August 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Electronic devices get smaller and more complex every year. It turns out that fragility is the price for miniaturization, especially when it comes to small devices, such as cell phones, hitting the floor. ... | |
 Air-purifying church windows early nanotechnology August 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 56 vote(s)
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Stained glass windows that are painted with gold purify the air when they are lit up by sunlight, a team of Queensland University of Technology experts have discovered. | |
Flexible nanoantenna arrays capture abundant solar energy August 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 75 vote(s)
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Researchers have devised an inexpensive way to produce plastic sheets containing billions of nanoantennas that collect heat energy generated by the sun and other sources. The technology, developed at the U.S. Department of ... | |
Nano-sized 'trojan horse' to aid nutrition August 25, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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Researchers from Monash University have designed a nano-sized "trojan horse" particle to ensure healing antioxidants can be better absorbed by the human body. | |
Unregulated nanoparticles from diesel engines inhibit lungs August 20, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Diesel engines emit countless carbon nanoparticles into the air, slipping through government regulation and vehicle filters. A new University of Michigan simulation shows that these nanoparticles can get ... | |
 Big step in tiny technology August 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 43 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A crucial step in developing minuscule structures with application potential in sophisticated sensors, catalysis, and nanoelectronics has been developed by Scottish researchers. | |
 Self-assembling polymer arrays improve data storage potential August 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new manufacturing approach holds the potential to overcome the technological limitations currently facing the microelectronics and data-storage industries, paving the way to smaller electronic ... | |
Researchers Build World's Smallest SRAM Memory Cell August 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- IBM and its development partners -- AMD, Freescale, STMicroelectronics, Toshiba and the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) -- today announced the first working static random access memory ... | |
 Carbon Nanotube-Coated Electrodes Improve Brain Readouts August 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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A research group has significantly improved the quality of brain-function measurements by coating metal neural electrodes with carbon nanotubes. Their work could potentially allow scientists to learn more ... | |
Slipping through cell walls, nanotubes deliver high-potency punch to cancer tumors in mice August 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The problem with using a shotgun to kill a housefly is that even if you get the pest, you'll likely do a lot of damage to your home in the process. Hence the value of the more surgical flyswatter. | |
 An Unconventional Metal August 20, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 34 vote(s)
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The semiconductor silicon and the ferromagnet iron are the basis for much of mankind's technology, used in everything from computers to electric motors. In this week's issue of the journal Nature (August ... | |
Study Details How Platinum Nanocages 'Cook' Cancer Cells August 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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Platinum-based anticancer agents have a long history as proven therapeutic agents, but their toxicity and short lifetime in the body and the ability of tumors to develop resistance to these drugs limit the ultimate utility ... | |
 Turning Waste Material into Ethanol August 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Say the word “biofuels” and most people think of grain ethanol and biodiesel. But there’s another, older technology called gasification that’s getting a new look from researchers at the U.S. ... | |
True properties of carbon nanotubes measured August 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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For more than 15 years, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been the flagship material of nanotechnology. Researchers have conceived applications for nanotubes ranging from microelectronic devices to cancer therapy. Their atomic ... | |
 Scientists develop the world's thinnest balloon August 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in New York are reporting development of the world's thinnest balloon, made of a single layer of graphite just one atom thick. This so-called graphene sealed microchamber is impermeable ... | |
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