 Stretchable Silicon May Inspire a New Wave of Electronics June 13, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 67 vote(s)
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Scientists have created a form of nanoscale silicon that is stretchable. The new material may help pave the way for a class of stretchable electronic devices, such as “smart” surgical gloves and personal health ... | |
 Scientists Hand-Make Devices Smaller than 10 Nanometers April 27, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 42 vote(s)
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A research team from the University of Pennsylvania has used an electron beam to hand-carve ultra-small metal structures and devices, all with dimensions below 10 nanometers, from very thin metal sheets. Their ... | |
 Nanoscale 'Coaxial Cables' for Solar Energy Harvesting April 23, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 118 vote(s)
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Scientists have designed a new type of nanowire – a tiny coaxial cable – that could vastly improve a few key renewable energy technologies, particularly solar cells, and could even impact other cutting-edge, ... | |
 Nanobubbles exist, and are more stable than previously thought April 02, 2007 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 42 vote(s)
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When William Ducker, a professor at the University of Melbourne in Australia started experiments on so-called nanobubbles that form as a gas state on the boundary between liquid and gas, he fully expected to ... | |
 New Nanomaterial, 'NanoBuds,' Combines Fullerenes and Nanotubes March 30, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 65 vote(s)
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Researchers have created a hybrid carbon nanomaterial that merges single-walled carbon nanotubes and spherical carbon-atom cages called fullerenes. The new structures, dubbed NanoBuds because they resemble ... | |
Scientists Create First Non-Carbon Material with Near-Diamond Hardness March 28, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 76 vote(s)
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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 ... | |
 Magnetic particles act as ink in new printer March 16, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 44 vote(s)
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By using a laser beam to focus and push particles against a substrate, scientist Lars Helseth of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore has designed and built a unique type of colloidal printer. Taking ... | |
 For low-cost DNA nanostructures, recycle sticky ends March 02, 2007 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 33 vote(s)
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Scientists from Duke University have recently demonstrated a new method for assembling large, low-cost DNA nanostructures, in part by reusing the “sticky-ends,” the broken DNA strands used to connect the nanostructures. ... | |
 New graphene transistor promises life after death of silicon chip (Update) February 28, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 113 vote(s)
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Researchers have used the world's thinnest material to create the world's smallest transistor – a breakthrough that could spark the development of a new type of super-fast computer chip. | |
 New Organic Gold-Nanoparticle Memory Device February 14, 2007 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 47 vote(s)
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Researchers have developed a new memory device that uses gold nanoparticles and the organic semiconducting compound pentacene. This novel pairing is a key step forward in the drive to develop organic "plastic" ... | |
 Telescoping nanotubes offer new option for nonvolatile memory February 06, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 44 vote(s)
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In the midst of a widespread and potentially highly lucrative search for next-generation nonvolatile memory, scientists from the University of California have put to use an interesting characteristic of carbon ... | |
 Super honeycomb shows more potential for carbon nanotubes January 19, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 40 vote(s)
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The hexagonal network structure makes these nanotubes look a bit like a honeycomb—or, when stretched a bit, like a hammock or fish net. In fact, the stretchiness of these 20-nm-long carbon nanotubes enables ... | |
 Nature’s frugal glues provide insight for optimized adhesives January 11, 2007 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 41 vote(s)
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In trying to create a “glue” that would hold right up to the breaking point of the material being glued, scientists have found that such an ideal adhesive already exists—in bone, abalone shells, and spider ... | |
Finding Memory in Nonlinear Ionization January 08, 2007 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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David Rayner and his colleagues at the National Research Council (NRC) of Canada in Ottawa have shown that when transparent solids, such as glass, are ionized with short intense laser pulses the material is subtly changed. | |
 How to Shrink a Carbon Nanotube November 30, 2006 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 125 vote(s)
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A research group has devised a way to control the diameter of a carbon nanotube – down to essentially zero nanometers. This useful new ability, designed by scientists from the University of California at Berkeley ... | |
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