'Intelligent' materials to revolutionize surgical implants
Dec 03, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A brand new process that could revolutionise the reliability and durability of surgical implants, such as hip and knee replacements, has today, 2 December 08, received recognition for its ...
Carbon Nanotubes with a Memory
Apr 03, 2006 |
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Carbon nanotubes have successfully been made into a variety of nanoscale circuit components, including transistors, inverters, and switches. Now, a pair of scientists has made a rough, yet promising, flash ...
Future Computer Chips Could Be Cooled With Nanofluid
Apr 20, 2006 |
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“This is the next generation of cooling devices,” Dr. Hongbin Ma tells PhysOrg.com. With a group of students at the University of Missouri-Columbia, and colleagues at Argonne National Laboratory and Intel Corporation, Ma ...
Researchers Produce Best-Yet Dye-Based Solar Cells
Jul 31, 2008 |
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In work that may help solar panels become a more viable source of mainstream power, a research group has created a dye-based solar cell with a high efficiency and high stability, and that lacks the volatile chemicals used ...
Scientists Make 'Perfect' Nanowires
Jan 23, 2008 |
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Scientists have created silicon nanowires that are perfect—at least atomically. Down at the single-atom level, the identical wires have no bumps, bends, or other imperfections. They are perfectly crystalline, even more so ...
Scientists Create First Non-Carbon Material with Near-Diamond Hardness
Mar 28, 2007 |
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Research scientists have created the first non-carbon-based material with a hardness approaching that of diamond. Their work could have a significant impact on technologies and industries that rely on diamond as a cutting ...
Mysterious nanobubble burst?
Dec 02, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The nanobubbles that develop on submerged surfaces should not really be able to exist. Because of the enormous internal pressure, they should disappear within a short time. Nevertheless, they ...
Graphene Takes the Heat
Feb 20, 2008 |
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Carbon nanotubes are being touted by many scientists and engineers as the material of the future, with the potential to revolutionize electronic technologies. But a new study shows that nanotubes may not be ...
Rice scientists attach motor to single-molecule car
Apr 12, 2006 |
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In follow-on work to last year's groundbreaking invention of the world's first single-molecule car, chemists at Rice University have produced the first motorized version of their tiny nanocar. The research is p ...
'Nanomechanical Oscillators' Could Lead to New Class of Computers
May 02, 2008 |
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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 ...
