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U.S., S. Koreans team for research

November 23, 2007 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

A nanotechnology study will span the United States and the Pacific Ocean as University of Delaware professors team with South Korean counterparts.


Purdue receives $18M nanotechnology grant

September 24, 2007 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

Purdue University has received an $18.2 million grant to support U.S. National Nanotechnology Initiative computer simulations.


Scientists work to create nanogenerator

July 19, 2007 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 23 vote(s) | No comments yet

U.S. scientists are developing a nanogenerator -- a tiny device that produces electricity from flowing blood, pulsating blood vessels, or a beating heart.


Transparent transistors to bring future displays, 'e-paper'

June 26, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 52 vote(s) | No comments yet

Researchers have used nanotechnology to create transparent transistors and circuits, a step that promises a broad range of applications, from e-paper and flexible color screens for consumer electronics to "smart cards" and ...


New use found for tunneling microscope

April 23, 2007 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 5 vote(s) | No comments yet

Dutch researchers have found a new use for scanning tunneling microscopes: visualizing individual catalysts at work at a solid-liquid interface.


Scientists develop atom-scale switch

January 18, 2007 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 11 vote(s) | No comments yet

U.S. Energy Department scientists performing basic research have discovered a carbon nanotube-based system that functions as an atom-scale switch.


Particle accelerator to be ready in '07

December 16, 2006 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 22 vote(s) | No comments yet

Nuclear research officials in Geneva, Switzerland, expressed confidence that the Large Hadron Collier particle accelerator would be ready for use in 2007.


Here come the nanoSQUIDs

October 05, 2006 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 21 vote(s) | No comments yet

A French scientific team says it has developed the first nanoSQUID -- or superconducting quantum interference device -- for measuring magnetic fields.


Nano World: Finger-sensitive sensor films

June 13, 2006 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

Devices comparable in sensitivity to human fingers, enabled by a novel film embedded with nanoparticles, could offer the first step toward giving robotics hands the delicacy of the human touch, experts told UPI's Nano World.


Nano World: Nanoparticle balls for silicon

June 09, 2006 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 15 vote(s) | No comments yet

An international team of university and industry scientists has discovered a way to improve nanoparticles used to make advanced circuits. These findings could help improve the reliable large-scale manufacture of high quality ...


Nano World: Water harvesting surfaces

June 06, 2006 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 23 vote(s) | No comments yet

Beetles that harvest water from desert air have inspired the creation of printable surfaces that improve on nature with the aid of glass nanoparticles. These surfaces could also help control the flow of microscopic amounts ...


FEI systems selected for Russian center

June 05, 2006 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

The FEI Company announced Monday that three of its systems have been selected as core enabling tools for a new Russian nanotechnology facility.


Nano World: Superior nanowire transistors

May 30, 2006 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 33 vote(s) | No comments yet

Transistors made with semiconductor wires just nanometers or billionths of a meter wide can exceed the performance of current state-of-the-art silicon transistors by three or four times, experts tell UPI's Nano World.


Nano World: Nano-loaded wireless sensors

May 23, 2006 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 13 vote(s) | No comments yet

Devices the size of a dime armed with reprogrammable sensors, laden with nanoparticles and wirelessly networked with each other could help sniff the air for bombs and toxins on battlefields, experts tell UPI's Nano World.


$100 M partnership to advance nanotech

May 12, 2006 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 12 vote(s) | No comments yet

A $100 million partnership has been made to create what collaborators consider will be the world's most powerful university-based supercomputing center.


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