Proposed 'Nanomechanical' Computer is Both Old-School and Cutting-Edge August 03, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 48 vote(s)
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A group of engineers have proposed a novel approach to computing: computers made of billionth-of-a-meter-sized mechanical elements. Their idea combines the modern field of nanoscience with the mechanical engineering principles ... | |
Scientists Make Flexible, Polymer-Based Data Storage August 01, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 45 vote(s)
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The future of the electronics industry is believed by many to lie in organic materials – polymers that conduct electricity. Because they are ultra lightweight, flexible, and low-cost, they may lead to a whole new class of ... | |
 Controlling nano color and shape with pH adjustments July 30, 2007 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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Scientists have recently discovered that the shape, color, and optical properties of silver nanoparticles can be controlled using a method that is easy, inexpensive and takes just minutes. Simply by adjusting ... | |
 See-through transistor fabricated for future e-displays July 27, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 83 vote(s)
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Scientists have recently taken an important step toward the development of “see-through” flexible electronic displays by fabricating fully transparent, high-speed nanowire transistors. This piece of circuitry, ... | |
 Simple Method Yields Complex Micro- and Nanoparticle Shapes July 26, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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In applications from drug delivery to electronics, polymer particles several billionths to millionths of a meter in size could play key roles. But before many of these uses can be realized, scientists must ... | |
Physicists create first superconductor hybrid nanoscale heat transistor July 25, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 50 vote(s)
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Low temperature research has been at the forefront of cooling applications for quite some time. One project, a nanoscale heat transistor, has been built in Finland in cooperation with an Italian researcher at the Helsinki ... | |
Indium arsenide may provide clues to quantum information processing July 23, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 31 vote(s)
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“We’re not saying we’ve built a quantum computer,” Andreas Fuhrer tells PhysOrg.com, “but this is an important first step towards spin manipulation via the spin-orbit interaction.” | |
 Understanding light at the nanoscale: a nano-sized double-slit experiment July 17, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 62 vote(s)
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Before nanotechnology can reach its full potential, researchers must understand the way things work on the nanoscale—which is often very different from the macroscopic world. One of these areas is light, and ... | |
 'Blown Bubble' Method Disperses Nanostructures Over Large Areas June 22, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 35 vote(s)
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Researchers from Harvard University and the University of Hawaii at Manoa recently announced a new method for organizing nanowires and carbon nanotubes across large areas: blowing bubbles. | |
Researchers Suggest Quantum Dots as Media for Teleportation June 21, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 135 vote(s)
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According to recent research, tiny clusters of atoms known as quantum dots may be excellent media for quantum teleportation, a physics phenomenon in which information – in the form of a quantum state, a very specific mathematical ... | |
 Carbon nanotube injectors probe living cells without damage June 20, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 55 vote(s)
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In order to investigate the processes that go on inside a single human cell—or even specific subcellular compartments—researchers need a device that is small and controlled enough to pass through ... | |
 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: 4.4 / 5 after 41 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 ... | |
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