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 ... | |
Magnetic fields created using nanotechnology could make computers up to 500 times faster June 22, 2006 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 115 vote(s)
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Magnetic fields created using nanotechnology could make computers up to 500 times more powerful if new research is successful. | |
 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 ... | |
For a Bigger Hard-drive, Just Add Water May 11, 2006 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 228 vote(s)
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Imagine having computer memory so dense that a cubic centimeter contains 12.8 million gigabytes of information. Imagine an iPod playing music for 100 millennia without repeating a single song or a USB thumb-drive with room ... | |
 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 ... | |
 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 ... | |
 Discovering How to Focus on Tiniest of the Very Small June 19, 2006 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 30 vote(s)
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If you need a good picture of a molecule, your first job is getting its atoms to pose for you, says John Silcox, Cornell's David E. Burr Professor of Engineering and an expert in the realm of the very tiny. | |
 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 ... | |
Plastic solar cell efficiency breaks record April 19, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 116 vote(s)
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The global search for a sustainable energy supply is making significant strides at Wake Forest University as researchers at the university’s Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials have announced that they have ... | |
 Scientists Create Quantum Cascade Laser Nanoantenna October 23, 2007 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 54 vote(s)
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In a major feat of nanotechnology engineering researchers from Harvard University have demonstrated a laser with a wide-range of potential applications in chemistry, biology and medicine. Called a quantum ... | |
 Nanogenerator provides continuous power by harvesting energy from the environment April 05, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 130 vote(s)
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Researchers have demonstrated a prototype nanometer-scale generator that produces continuous direct-current electricity by harvesting mechanical energy from such environmental sources as ultrasonic waves, ... | |
 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 ... | |
 'Nano-Manhattan' 3D solar cells boost efficiency (Update) April 11, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 87 vote(s)
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Unique three-dimensional solar cells that capture nearly all of the light that strikes them could boost the efficiency of photovoltaic (PV) systems while reducing their size, weight and mechanical complexity. | |
 Nano World: Invisibility through nano May 25, 2006 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 101 vote(s)
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Invisibility cloaks that bend light might develop using nanotechnology, experts tell UPI's Nano World. | |
Nanowire battery holds 10 times the charge of existing ones December 18, 2007 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 185 vote(s)
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Stanford researchers have found a way to use silicon nanowires to reinvent the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that power laptops, iPods, video cameras, cell phones, and countless other devices. | |
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