.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 37 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 ... | |
 Carbon Nanotube Windmills Powered by 'Electron Wind' 10 hours ago | User rating: 5 / 5 after 26 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. | |
 New Nanowire-Based Memory Could Beef Up Information Storage July 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 45 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 ... | |
 Physicists Store Images in Vapor June 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 89 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 ... | |
 Carbon Nanotubes as a Single-Photon Source June 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 34 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 ... | |
 '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 Nanotubes Improve Fuel Cells March 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 46 vote(s)
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A group of scientists has created a new, improved fuel-cell electrode that is very lightweight and thin. Composed of a network of single-walled carbon nanotubes, the electrode functions nearly as well as conventional electrodes ... | |
 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 ... | |
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 ... | |
 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. | |
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 ... | |
 Nanoparticles Generate Supersonic Shock Waves to Target Cancer January 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 58 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. | |
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 ... | |
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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