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Application of air-sensitive semiconductors in nanoelectronics
Sep 25, 2017 (SPX)
The study was published in Semiconductor Science and Technology. One of the promising areas of modern materials science is the study of two-dimensional (2D) mat...
A new kind of optical nanosensor uses torque for signal processing
Sep 19, 2017 (SPX)
An international group of researchers have put a literal twist on this challenge, demonstrating a new nanoscale optomechanical resonator that can detect torsion...
UMass Amherst environmental chemist flashes warning light on new nanoparticle
Aug 31, 2017 (SPX)
"I am not only a soil chemist, but an environmental chemist," he notes. "As agricultural scientists, we are very familiar with phosphorous but I had never heard...
A more complete picture of the nano world
Aug 28, 2017 (SPX)
Aerosol particles, which are found in haze, dust and vehicle exhaust, measure in the microns. One micron is one-millionth of a meter; a thin human hair is about...
What the world's tiniest 'monster truck' reveals
Aug 28, 2017 (SPX)
The researchers are presenting their nanocar research at the 254th National Meeting and Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS). ACS, the world's larg...
Carbon nanotubes worth their salt
Aug 28, 2017 (SPX)
The nanotubes, hollow structures made of carbon atoms in a unique arrangement, are more than 50,000 times thinner than a human hair. The super smooth inner surf...
'Nano-hashtags' could provide definite proof of Majorana particles
Aug 28, 2017 (SPX)
In 2012 it was big news: researchers from Delft University of Technology and Eindhoven University of Technology presented the first experimental signatures for ...
Nanotechnology gives green energy a green color
Aug 21, 2017 (SPX)
A new study published this week in Applied Physics Letters, from AIP Publishing, brings us one step closer to a future of colorful, efficient solar panels. Rese...
How to move objects at the nanoscale
Aug 17, 2017 (SPX)
In fact, simulations show that vertical thermal oscillations of the graphene membrane flow ballistically from hot to cold, providing a push to the object. Yet, ...
New method promises easier nanoscale manufacturing
Jul 31, 2017 (SPX)
The new research, published July 28 in Science, is expected to make such materials easily available for eventual use in everything from LED displays to cellular...
Nanoparticles could spur better LEDs, invisibility cloaks
Jul 21, 2017 (SPX)
It's the first technique that can inexpensively grow metal nanoparticles both on and below the surface of semiconductors. The process adds virtually no cost dur...
How do you build a metal nanoparticle?
Jul 18, 2017 (SPX)
"Thermodynamic Stability of Ligand-Protected Metal Nanoclusters" (DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15988) was co-authored by Giannis Mpourmpakis, assistant professor of chemi...
New material resembling a metal nanosponge could reduce computer energy consumption
Jul 18, 2017 (SPX)
In 2007, French scientists observed that when the magnetic materials are put into ultra-thin layers and voltage is applied, the amount of current and energy nee...
Nanostructures taste the rainbow
Jul 03, 2017 (SPX)
Light detectors that distinguish between different colors of light or heat are used in a variety of applications, including satellites that study changing veget...
Silver atom nanoclusters could become efficient biosensors
Jun 20, 2017 (SPX)
By combining chemistry and nanotechnology, the research community in recent years has developed a kind of extremely small nanoclusters consisting of only a few ...
Superconducting nanowire memory cell, miniaturized technology
Jun 16, 2017 (SPX)
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a new nanoscale memory cell that holds tremendous promise for successful integratio...
Chemists perform surgery on nanoparticles
Jun 16, 2017 (SPX)
The surgical technique developed by Qi Li, the study's lead author and a 3rd year graduate student in the Jin group, will allow researchers to enhance nanoparti...
Nanotechnology reveals hidden depths of bacterial 'machines'
Jun 15, 2017 (SPX)
Cyanobacteria are a phylum of bacteria that produce oxygen and energy during photosynthesis, similar to green plants. They are among the most abundant organisms...
Sensing the nanoscale with visible light, and the fundamentals of disordered waves
Jun 08, 2017 (SPX)
Hanan Sheinfux and Dr. Yaakov Lumer, from the group of Prof. Moti Segev at the Technion -Technical Institute of Israel, carried out this study in collaboration ...
Nanosized silicon heater and thermometer combined to fight cancer
Jun 05, 2017 (SPX)
The researchers plan to control the heating of the silicon particles in the future to internally burn cancer cells without affecting healthy tissue. The results...
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