 Graphene Takes the Heat February 20, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 96 vote(s)
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Carbon nanotubes are being touted by many scientists and engineers as the material of the future, with the potential to revolutionize electronic technologies. But a new study shows that nanotubes may not be ... | |
 Carbon nanoribbons could make smaller, speedier computer chips May 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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Stanford chemists have developed a new way to make transistors out of carbon nanoribbons. The devices could someday be integrated into high-performance computer chips to increase their speed and generate less ... | |
 Go Speed Racer! Revving up the world's fastest nanomotors May 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 25 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 ... | |
 Virtual 3D nanorobots could lead to real cancer-fighting technology December 05, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 134 vote(s)
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From eliminating the side effects of chemotherapy to treating Alzheimer’s disease, the potential medical applications of nanorobots are vast and ambitious. In the past decade, researchers have made many improvements ... | |
 Physicists invent 'QuIET' - single molecule transistors August 30, 2006 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 135 vote(s)
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University of Arizona physicists have discovered how to turn single molecules into working transistors. It's a breakthrough needed to make the next-generation of remarkably tiny, powerful computers that nanotechnologists ... | |
Using fireballs to uncover the mysteries of ball lightning February 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 51 vote(s)
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“People have been pondering ball lightning for a couple of centuries,” says James Brian Mitchell, a scientist the University of Rennes in France. Mitchell says that different theories of how it forms, and why it burns in ... | |
Printable, Flexible Carbon-Nanotube Transistors January 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 61 vote(s)
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Scientists from the University of Massachusetts Lowell and Brewer Science, Inc. have used carbon nanotubes as the basis for a high-speed thin-film transistors printed onto sheets of flexible plastic. Their method may allow ... | |
 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" ... | |
 Nanodisk Codes December 27, 2007 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 49 vote(s)
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Researchers at Northwestern University have devised a way to use billionth-of-a-meter-sized disks to create codes that could be used to encrypt information, serve as biological labels, and even tag and track ... | |
 New Properties Discovered for Nanotube Sheets April 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 55 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 ... | |
 Engineers whip up the first long-lived nanoscale bubbles May 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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With the aid of kitchen mixers, engineers at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have whipped up, for the first time, permanent nanoscale bubbles – bubbles that endure for more than ... | |
 Shuttling Electrons June 05, 2006 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 26 vote(s)
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“We are trying to understand quantum nano-electro-mechanical systems,” Jason Twamley explains to PhysOrg.com. “These systems display richer dynamics and interactions than one can obtain with quantum optical ... | |
 Microscope Sees with Nanoscale Resolution January 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 72 vote(s)
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Researchers have recently built an x-ray microscope that has a pixel resolution of just 15 nanometers, allowing scientists to study the properties of materials at the molecular scale and beyond. | |
 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 ... | |
Plumbing Carbon Nanotubes January 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 58 vote(s)
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Scientists have determined how to connect carbon nanotubes together like water pipes, a feat that may lead to a whole new group of bottom-up-engineered nanostructures and devices. | |
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