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Practical superconducting nanowire single photon detector highly efficient
Nov 14, 2017 (SPX)
The team headed by Prof. Lixing You from Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology (SIMIT), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) (also affiliate...
Subset of carbon nanotubes poses cancer risk similar to asbestos in mice
Nov 09, 2017 (SPX)
The findings were observed in 10%-25% of the 32 animals included in the study, which has not yet been replicated in humans. The work appears November 6 in Curre...
Simple green synthesis is a breath of fresh air
Nov 08, 2017 (SPX)
Metal sulfides, which are crystalline materials that combine one or more metal atoms with sulfur atoms, have excellent electronic, optical and thermoelectric pr...
New, simplified technique makes light metallic nanofoam
Nov 06, 2017 (SPX)
A nanofoam is what it sounds like - a foamy version of some material, filled with very small pores. First introduced about 20 years ago, metallic nanofoams have...
Metal-silicone microstructures could enable new flexible optical and electrical devices
Nov 03, 2017 (SPX)
The metal component of the microstructures renders them electrically conductive while the elastic silicone contributes flexibility. This unique combination of p...
Gold nanoantennas help in creation of more powerful nanoelectronics
Nov 03, 2017 (SPX)
According to the authors of the study, these are the experiments that have not been conducted before. The scientists are working on a technology which allows us...
Researchers show how nanoscale patterning can decrease metal fatigue
Nov 02, 2017 (SPX)
The research focused on metal manufactured with nanotwins, tiny linear boundaries in a metal's atomic lattice that have identical crystalline structures on eith...
Researchers reveal the effect of nano-diamond on magnetorheological fluids
Nov 02, 2017 (SPX)
In order to analyze the effects of nano-diamond on the performance of MRFs, the MRF-1 with a 2% mass fraction in nano-diamond and the MRF-2 without nano-diamond...
New technique produces tunable, nanoporous materials
Oct 30, 2017 (SPX)
Nanoparticles are tiny particles made up of a central solid core to which molecules called ligands are often attached. Nanoparticles can self-assemble into latt...
Nanotube fiber antennas as capable as copper
Oct 26, 2017 (SPX)
The discovery offers more potential applications for the strong, lightweight nanotube fibers developed by the Rice lab of chemist and chemical engineer Matteo P...
New research explores the limits of nanomaterials and atomic effects for nanotechnology
Oct 26, 2017 (SPX)
Dr Alex Lord and Professor Steve Wilks from the Centre for NanoHealth led the collaborative research published in Nano Letters. The research team defined the li...
Jumping nanoparticles
Oct 26, 2017 (SPX)
Looking through the objective of a microscope, he noticed that pollen grains floating in water were constantly jiggling around as if driven by an invisible forc...
Single nanoparticle mapping paves the way for better nanotechnology
Oct 25, 2017 (SPX)
In the future almost all new technology will be based on nanotechnology in some form. But nanoparticles are temperamental personalities. Even when they look the...
Terahertz spectroscopy goes nano
Oct 20, 2017 (SPX)
Laser terahertz emission microscopy (LTEM) is a burgeoning means of characterizing the performance of solar cells, integrated circuits and other systems and mat...
Long nanotubes make strong fibers
Oct 18, 2017 (SPX)
The Rice lab of chemist and chemical engineer Matteo Pasquali, which demonstrated its pioneering method to spin carbon nanotube into fibers in 2013, has advance...
Paper-based supercapacitor uses metal nanoparticles to boost energy density
Oct 09, 2017 (SPX)
By implanting conductive and charge storage materials in the paper, the technique creates large surface areas that function as current collectors and nanopartic...
Tungsten offers nano-interconnects a path of least resistance
Oct 05, 2017 (SPX)
One promising possibility involves reducing the resistivity size effect by altering the crystalline orientation of interconnect materials. A pair of researchers...
Nanoscale islands dot light-driven catalyst
Oct 05, 2017 (SPX)
The structures have an aluminum core and are dotted with even smaller metallic islands. The materials all sustain localized surface plasmon resonances, collecti...
Nanoparticle supersoap creates 'bijel' with potential as sculptable fluid
Oct 03, 2017 (SPX)
The study, reported in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, presents the newest entry in a class of substances known as bicontinuous jammed emulsion gels, or bije...
Assembly of nanoparticles proceeds like a zipper
Sep 27, 2017 (SPX)
Furthermore, controlling the arrangement of nanoparticles can result in unforeseen properties, but such studies are hard to carry out due to limited efficient a...
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