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 ... | |
 Nanoparticles Generate Supersonic Shock Waves to Target Cancer January 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 59 vote(s)
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By mixing nanomaterials that act as fuel and oxidizer, researchers have created a combustible nano explosive that can generate shock waves with Mach numbers up to 3. | |
Scientists Make 'Perfect' Nanowires January 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 55 vote(s)
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Scientists have created silicon nanowires that are perfect—at least atomically. Down at the single-atom level, the identical wires have no bumps, bends, or other imperfections. They are perfectly crystalline, even more so ... | |
 Scientists First To Measure Force Required To Move Individual Atoms February 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 47 vote(s)
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IBM scientists, in collaboration with the University of Regensburg in Germany, are the first ever to measure the force it takes to move individual atoms on a surface. This fundamental measurement provides ... | |
 Nanophotonic switch device for routing light on a chip scale March 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 44 vote(s)
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IBM scientists today took another significant advance towards sending information inside a computer chip by using light pulses instead of electrons by building the world’s tiniest nanophotonic switch with ... | |
 Electron spin and orbits in carbon nanotubes are coupled March 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 50 vote(s)
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Researchers hoping to use carbon nanotubes for quantum computing -- in which the spin of a single electron would represent a bit of data -- may have to change their approaches, according to new Cornell research. | |
 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 ... | |
Researchers Develop Revolutionary Technology for Nanoscale Assembly at Wafer Level May 20, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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Researchers at the NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing (CHN) at Northeastern University, with partners UMass Lowell and University of New Hampshire, have discovered an innovative technology ... | |
 Carbon nanoribbons could make smaller, speedier computer chips May 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 22 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 ... | |
 Carbon Nanotubes as a Single-Photon Source June 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 39 vote(s)
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Carbon nanotubes, as true multi-purpose materials, have potential applications in everything from electrical circuits and drug delivery to golf clubs and space elevators. Recently, physicists have investigated ... | |
 Controlling the Size of Nanoclusters: First Step in Making New Catalysts July 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University have developed a new instrument that allows them to control the size of nanoclusters — groups of 10 ... | |
Scientists carve functional nanoribbons using super-heated, nano-sized particles of iron July 31, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 26 vote(s)
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Due to its remarkable electronic properties, few layer graphene, or FLG, has emerged as a promising new material for use in post-silicon devices that incorporate the quantum effects that emerge at the nanoscale. Now, physicists ... | |
 Two-photon absorbing molecules fabricate polymer features just 65 nanometers wide March 26, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Producing three-dimensional polymer line structures as small as 65 nanometers wide just became easier with new two-photon absorbing molecules that are sensitive to laser light at short wavelengths, allowing ... | |
DNA used as a template for nanolithography August 31, 2007 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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DNA is one of the most popular building blocks of nanotechnology and is commonly used to construct ordered nanoscale structures with controlled architectures. For the most part, DNA is looked upon as a promising building ... | |
 Make Way for the Real Nanopod: Researchers Create First Fully Functional Nanotube Radio October 31, 2007 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 83 vote(s)
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Make way for the real nanopod and make room in the Guinness World Records. A team of researchers with the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at ... | |
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