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Nanowires may boost solar cell efficiency, engineers say Nanotechnology / Materials May 14, 2008 \| User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 46 vote(s) \| No comments yet University of California, San Diego electrical engineers have created experimental solar cells spiked with nanowires that could lead to highly efficient thin-film solar cells of the future.

Held together by metal-metal bonds: a large ring containing 36 gold atoms Nanotechnology / Materials May 14, 2008 \| User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 18 vote(s) \| No comments yet Chinese researchers have recently made a “golden crown” with a diameter of only a few nanometers. It is a large ring-shaped molecule containing 36 gold atoms. The lords of the ring, a team of researchers from ...

Spin Control: New Technique Sorts Nanotubes by Length Nanotechnology / Materials May 14, 2008 \| User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 10 vote(s) \| User comments: 1 Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have reported a new technique to sort batches of carbon nanotubes by length using high-speed centrifuges. Many potential applications ...