A Better Way to Make Nanotubes

Nanotechnology / Materials

created Jan 05, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 after 14 votes | comments 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- A compound synthesized for the first time by Berkeley Lab scientists could help to push nanotechnology out of the lab and into faster electronic devices, more powerful sensors, and other advanced ...


Using light to move and trap DNA molecules

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 after 5 votes | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A major goal of nanotechnology research is to create a "lab on a chip," in which a tiny biological sample would be carried through microscopic channels for processing. This could make possible ...


Researchers control the assembly of nanobristles into helical clusters

Nanotechnology / Physics

created Jan 08, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 after 4 votes | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- From the structure of DNA to nautical rope to distant spiral galaxies, helical forms are as abundant as they are useful in nature and manufacturing alike. Researchers at the Harvard School ...


Carbon nanotube 'ink' may lead to thinner, lighter transistors and solar cells

Nanotechnology / Physics

created Jan 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 after 3 votes | comments no comments yet

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using a simple chemical process, scientists at Cornell and DuPont have invented a method of preparing carbon nanotubes for suspension in a semiconducting "ink," which can then be printed into ...


Nano 'balls' can be used to manipulate the properties of glass

Nanotechnology / Physics

created 8 hours ago | popularity 3 / 5 after 2 votes | comments no comments yet

(PhysOrg.com) -- Liquid or glass, hard or soft -- researchers at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, are investigating a new 'model material' that can adopt a series of different properties. This is ...



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