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 ... | |
 A snapshot of the transformation of nanoscale structures September 11, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Researchers have achieved a milestone in materials science and electron microscopy by taking a high-resolution snapshot of the transformation of nanoscale structures. | |
.jpg "LCDs get brighter with nano polarization recycler") LCDs get brighter with nano polarization recycler September 06, 2006 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 114 vote(s)
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LCDs (liquid crystal displays) provide a popular method for lighting screens on everything from computers and TVs to watches, clocks, cell phones and more. However, as scientists Sang Hoon Kim, Joo-Do Park ... | |
 Nanoparticles self-assemble through chemical lithography July 20, 2006 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 38 vote(s)
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Nanoparticles – while possessing some amazing properties of strength and power – are also delicate little things, when it comes to manipulating them for use in nanodevices. Many scientists consider that the ... | |
How Small is Too Small? Researchers Find that Polarization Changes at the Nanoscale September 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- How small is too small to be useful? Researchers at North Carolina State University have done nanoscale analysis on ferroelectric thin films – materials that are used in electronic devices from computer ... | |
 New Nanowire-Based Memory Could Beef Up Information Storage July 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 55 vote(s)
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Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have created a type of nanowire-based information storage device that is capable of storing three bit values rather than the usual two—that is, "0," "1," and ... | |
 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. | |
 Physicists Store Images in Vapor June 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 93 vote(s)
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Books are written on solid pieces of paper for an obvious reason: the atoms in a solid don’t move around much, keeping the words and pictures in place for centuries. Trying to store letters and images in a ... | |
Researchers Suggest Quantum Dots as Media for Teleportation June 21, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 135 vote(s)
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According to recent research, tiny clusters of atoms known as quantum dots may be excellent media for quantum teleportation, a physics phenomenon in which information – in the form of a quantum state, a very specific mathematical ... | |
 Big step in tiny technology August 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 45 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A crucial step in developing minuscule structures with application potential in sophisticated sensors, catalysis, and nanoelectronics has been developed by Scottish researchers. | |
 A first in integrated nanowire sensor circuitry August 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have created the world's first all-integrated sensor circuit based on nanowire ... | |
 New Flexible, Transparent Transistors made of Nanotubes November 27, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 77 vote(s)
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The ability to create flexible, transparent electronics could lead to a host of novel applications, such as e-paper and electronic car windshields. Now, scientists have constructed a transistor made of a network ... | |
 Scientists discover water is sticky on a small scale May 08, 2006 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 105 vote(s)
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When water vapor condenses in a nano-sized space between two surfaces, the liquid behaves more like solid ice than liquid water, even at room temperature. This solidification causes water to exert such a strong ... | |
 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 ... | |
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