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Melting defects could lead to smaller, more powerful microchips

May 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 26 vote(s) | No comments yet

As microchips shrink, even tiny defects in the lines, dots and other shapes etched on them become major barriers to performance. Princeton engineers have now found a way to literally melt away such defects, ...


Researchers target tumors with tiny 'nanoworms'

May 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 26 vote(s) | User comments: 2

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 19 vote(s) | User comments: 1

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 ...


Researchers identify pressure effects on nanomaterials

23 hours ago | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 7 vote(s) | User comments: 1

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 ...


Chemists measure chilli sauce hotness with nanotubes

May 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 19 vote(s) | User comments: 5

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.


Scientists demonstrate method for integrating nanowire devices directly onto silicon

23 hours ago | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 20 vote(s) | No comments yet

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 ...