Researchers Produce Best-Yet Dye-Based Solar Cells July 31, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 67 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 ... | |
Scientists demonstrate potential of graphene films as next-generation transistors July 31, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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Physicists at the University of Pennsylvania have characterized an aspect of graphene film behavior by measuring the way it conducts electricity on a substrate. This milestone advances the potential application of graphene, ... | |
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 ... | |
 Golden scales: Nanoscale mass sensor from Berkeley can be used to weigh individual atoms and molecules July 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- There's a new "gold standard" in the sensitivity of weighing scales. Using the same technology with which they created the world's first fully functional nanotube radio, researchers with Berkeley ... | |
Researchers demonstrate a flexible, 1-step assembly of nanoscale structures July 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have created a one-step, repeatable method for the production of functional nanoscale patterns or motifs with adjustable features, size and shape using a single master "plate." | |
 'Nanonet' circuits closer to making flexible electronics reality July 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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Researchers have overcome a major obstacle in producing transistors from networks of carbon nanotubes, a technology that could make it possible to print circuits on plastic sheets for applications including ... | |
Hydrogen generation without the carbon footprint July 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 37 vote(s)
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A greener, less expensive method to produce hydrogen for fuel may eventually be possible with the help of water, solar energy and nanotube diodes that use the entire spectrum of the sun's energy, according to Penn State researchers. ... | |
Carbon Nanotubes heralded as ideal candidates for next generation Nanoelectronics July 14, 2008 | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Widely regarded as the wonder material of the 21st century, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and the intramolecular junctions that connect CNTs for integration have been hailed as the ideal candidates for the next ... | |
 Study reveals principles behind stability and electronic properties of gold nanoclusters July 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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A report published in the July 8 issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) is the first to describe the principles behind the stability and electronic properties ... | |
 Swiss nano-microscope delivers first images recorded on Mars July 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time ever, nanostructures have been measured on another planet. On July 9, the NASA "Phoenix" Mars Probe recorded images with nanometer resolution (one nanometer roughly corresponds ... | |
 Nano-sized electronic circuit promises bright view of early universe July 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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A newly developed nano-sized electronic device is an important step toward helping astronomers see invisible light dating from the creation of the universe. This invisible light makes up 98% of the light emitted ... | |
New nanotech research to enhance future digital imaging July 10, 2008 | User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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A team of researchers from Northeastern’s Electronic Materials Research Institute has published research that has resulted in a new breakthrough in the field of nanophotonics, the study of light at the nanoscale level. | |
 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 ... | |
 Researchers report finer lines for microchips: Advance could lead to next-generation computer chips, solar cells July 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 47 vote(s)
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MIT researchers have achieved a significant advance in nanoscale lithographic technology, used in the manufacture of computer chips and other electronic devices, to make finer patterns of lines over larger ... | |
 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. | |
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