 Nanowires may boost solar cell efficiency, engineers say May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 46 vote(s)
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University of California, San Diego electrical engineers have created experimental solar cells spiked with nanowires that could lead to highly efficient thin-film solar cells of the future. | |
Nanotechnology in reverse uses cell to calibrate tools May 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Nanotechnology researchers at UC Davis have shown that they can use a red blood cell to calibrate a sensitive instrument, an atomic force microscope. | |
 Student Innovation Could Improve Data Storage, Magnetic Sensors May 14, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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Paul Morrow has come a long way from his days as an elementary school student, pulling apart his mother’s cassette player. The talented young physicist has developed two innovations that could vastly improve ... | |
 Spin Control: New Technique Sorts Nanotubes by Length May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have reported a new technique to sort batches of carbon nanotubes by length using high-speed centrifuges. Many potential applications ... | |
 Held together by metal-metal bonds: a large ring containing 36 gold atoms May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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Chinese researchers have recently made a “golden crown” with a diameter of only a few nanometers. It is a large ring-shaped molecule containing 36 gold atoms. The lords of the ring, a team of researchers from ... | |
 'Nanomechanical Oscillators' Could Lead to New Class of Computers May 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 67 vote(s)
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More than 50 years ago, a graduate student in Japan conceived the “Parametron,” an electrical circuit that could form the basis for digital computers. The concept ultimately fell flat, but recently a pair ... | |
Researchers synthesize molecule with self-control May 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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Plants have an ambivalent relationship with light. They need it to live, but too much light leads to the increased production of high-energy chemical intermediates that can injure or kill the plant. | |
 Chemists measure chilli sauce hotness with nanotubes May 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 39 vote(s)
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Oxford chemists have found a way of using carbon nanotubes to judge the heat of chilli sauces. The technology might soon be available commercially as a cheap, disposable sensor for use in the food industry. | |
 Researchers target tumors with tiny 'nanoworms' May 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 33 vote(s)
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Scientists at UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara and MIT have developed nanometer-sized “nanoworms” that can cruise through the bloodstream without significant interference from the body’s immune defense system ... | |
 Nanotube production leaps from sooty mess in test tube to ready formed chemical microsensors May 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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Carbon nanotubes’ potential as a super material is blighted by the fact that when first made they often take the form of an unprepossessing pile of sooty black mess in the bottom of a test tube. Now researchers ... | |
UCSD nanostructures will raise thin-film solar cell efficiency May 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Thanks to nanostructures that scatter and channel light, University of California, San Diego electrical engineers are working toward thin-film “single junction” solar cells with the potential for nearly 45 percent sunlight-to-electricity ... | |
 Nanobacteria – Are They Alive? April 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 82 vote(s)
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Tiny particles called nanobacteria have intrigued researchers in many ways since their discovery 20 years ago, but perhaps the most controversial question they pose is whether or not they are alive. | |
 Public Invited to See Nanosoccer Robots in Action in Pittsburgh May 14, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Nanosoccer returns to the field later this month, when the National Institute of Standards and Technology hosts for the second time the world’s most Lilliputian sport. Three student teams will participate ... | |
 Scientists demonstrate method for integrating nanowire devices directly onto silicon May 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 28 vote(s)
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Applied scientists at Harvard University in collaboration with researchers from the German universities of Jena, Gottingen, and Bremen, have developed a new technique for fabricating nanowire photonic and ... | |
 Researchers identify pressure effects on nanomaterials May 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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Transistors, lasers and solar-energy conversion devices may be easier to manipulate because of recent research by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists. The researchers defined the role high pressure ... | |
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