Flexible nanoantenna arrays capture abundant solar energy August 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 77 vote(s)
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Researchers have devised an inexpensive way to produce plastic sheets containing billions of nanoantennas that collect heat energy generated by the sun and other sources. The technology, developed at the U.S. Department of ... | |
 'Nanomechanical Oscillators' Could Lead to New Class of Computers May 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 68 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 ... | |
 Carbon Nanotube Windmills Powered by 'Electron Wind' July 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 65 vote(s)
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Theoretical physicists from Lancaster University in the UK have designed a nanomotor that operates by a novel mechanism: an electron wind. | |
Tiny buckyballs squeeze hydrogen like giant Jupiter March 20, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 55 vote(s)
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Hydrogen could be a clean, abundant energy source, but it's difficult to store in bulk. In new research, materials scientists at Rice University have made the surprising discovery that tiny carbon capsules called buckyballs ... | |
 Evolution in the nanoworld October 30, 2007 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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The automatic molecular assembly and selection steps exhibited by the molecules, which start as random mixtures, demonstrates a fundamental step in the evolution of life. The organization is activated by instructions ... | |
 Researchers demonstrate 'avalanche effect' in solar cells May 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 117 vote(s)
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Researchers at TU Delft (Netherlands) and the FOM Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter have found irrefutable proof that the so-called avalanche effect by electrons occurs in specific, very small ... | |
 New nanoscale process will help computers run faster and more efficiently September 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 40 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Smaller. Faster. More efficient. These are the qualities that drive science and industry to create new nanoscale structures that will help to speed up computers. | |
 Feeling the Heat: Berkeley Researchers Make Thermoelectric Breakthrough in Silicon Nanowires January 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 56 vote(s)
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Energy now lost as heat during the production of electricity could be harnessed through the use of silicon nanowires synthesized via a technique developed by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy’s ... | |
 New Properties Discovered for Nanotube Sheets April 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 56 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 ... | |
Researchers Produce Best-Yet Dye-Based Solar Cells July 31, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 66 vote(s)
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In work that may help solar panels become a more viable source of mainstream power, a research group has created a dye-based solar cell with a high efficiency and high stability, and that lacks the volatile chemicals used ... | |
 Nanopencil Can Provide Terabit Data Storage Density September 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 53 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have fabricated a 'nanopencil' with a tip so small that it can be used as a scanning probe in ultrahigh-density computer data storage systems. | |
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 ... | |
 Physicists show electrons can travel over 100 times faster in graphene than in silicon March 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 82 vote(s)
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University of Maryland physicists have shown that in graphene the intrinsic limit to the mobility, a measure of how well a material conducts electricity, is higher than any other known material at room temperature. ... | |
 Physicists Produce Quantum-Entangled Images June 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 34 vote(s)
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Using a convenient and flexible method for creating twin light beams, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland (UM) have produced “quantum images,” ... | |
 Scientists develop the world's thinnest balloon August 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in New York are reporting development of the world's thinnest balloon, made of a single layer of graphite just one atom thick. This so-called graphene sealed microchamber is impermeable ... | |
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