 'Nanomechanical Oscillators' Could Lead to New Class of Computers May 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 66 vote(s)
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More than 50 years ago, a graduate student in Japan conceived the “Parametron,” an electrical circuit that could form the basis for digital computers. The concept ultimately fell flat, but recently a pair ... | |
 Scientists demonstrate method for integrating nanowire devices directly onto silicon May 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 26 vote(s)
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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 ... | |
 Go Speed Racer! Revving up the world's fastest nanomotors May 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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In a “major step” toward a practical energy source for powering tomorrow’s nanomachines, researchers in Arizona report development of a new generation of sub-microscopic nanomotors that are up to 10 times ... | |
 Melting defects could lead to smaller, more powerful microchips May 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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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, ... | |
 New Properties Discovered for Nanotube Sheets April 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 54 vote(s)
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A team of nanotechnologists at The University of Texas at Dallas, along with Brazilian collaborators, have discovered that sheets of carbon nanotubes can produce bizarre mechanical properties when stretched ... | |
 Creating Highly Sought Magnetic Nanoparticles in One Step May 02, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Researchers from the University of Minnesota have demonstrated a one-step technique for producing a class of magnetic nanoparticles that could be used in everything from biomedical applications to data storage. ... | |
Nano-designed transistors with disordered materials, but high performance May 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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The Holy Grail for transistor designers has been the requirement to be able to get high performance at reduced costs over very large substrate areas. Transistors on cheap and flexible substrates like glass and plastics are ... | |
 Spiraling nanotrees offer new twist on growth of nanowires May 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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Since scientists first learned to make nanowires, the nano-sized wires just a few millionths of a centimeter thick have taken many forms, including nanobelts, nanocoils and nanoflowers. | |
 Graphene used to create world's smallest transistor April 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 50 vote(s)
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Researchers have used the world's thinnest material to create the world's smallest transistor, one atom thick and ten atoms wide. | |
Researchers Make Breakthrough in Nanotechnology by Uncovering Conductive Property of Carbon-based Molecules April 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 33 vote(s)
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University of Pittsburgh researchers have discovered that certain organic—or carbon-based—molecules exhibit the properties of atoms under certain circumstances and, in turn, conduct electricity as well as metal. Detailed ... | |
Carbon Nanotubes Improve Fuel Cells March 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 46 vote(s)
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A group of scientists has created a new, improved fuel-cell electrode that is very lightweight and thin. Composed of a network of single-walled carbon nanotubes, the electrode functions nearly as well as conventional electrodes ... | |
 Simulations may explain nanoparticles 'pinned' to graphene April 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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It was hard to understand how a graphene sheet — a featureless, flat sheet of carbon atoms — lying on an equally featureless iridium surface, somehow converted itself into a kind of muffin tin that formed ... | |
 Sandia researcher examines the physics of carbon nanotubes May 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Carbon nanotubes, described as the reigning celebrity of the advanced materials world, are all the rage. Recently researchers at Rice University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute used them to make the “blackest ... | |
Nanotechnology paves way for super iPods April 18, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 50 vote(s)
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A breakthrough by scientists from the University of Glasgow could see the storage capacity of an iPod increase 150,000 times. | |
 Engineers make first 'active matrix' display using nanowires March 31, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 45 vote(s)
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Engineers have created the first "active matrix" display using a new class of transparent transistors and circuits, a step toward realizing applications such as e-paper, flexible color monitors and "heads-up" ... | |
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