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Ultrafast nanophotonics: Turmoil in sluggish electrons' existence
May 30, 2017 (SPX)
Typically, they remain fixed in a location, deep inside an atomic composite. It is hence relatively still in a dielectric crystal lattice. This idyll has now be...
Researchers create first significant examples of optical crystallography for nanomaterials
May 24, 2017 (SPX)
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a novel way to determine crystal type based on optics - by identifying the unique w...
Stanford scientists use nanotechnology to boost the performance of key industrial catalyst
May 24, 2017 (SPX)
The discovery, published May 18 in Nature Communications, focuses on an industrial catalyst known as cerium oxide, or ceria, a spongy material commonly used in ...
Nanophysics: Saving energy with a spot of silver
May 23, 2017 (SPX)
Today's computers are faster and smaller than ever before. The latest generation of transistors will have structural features with dimensions of only 10 nanomet...
Molecular Lego for nanoelectronics
May 23, 2017 (SPX)
The team of researchers headed by Prof. Dr. Sabine Maier, Prof. Dr. Milan Kivala and Prof. Dr. Andreas Gorling has successfully assembled and tested conductors ...
Nanotechnology Flight Test: Material Impact on the Future
May 18, 2017 (SPX)
For instance, materials can be manufactured that exhibit superior strength but are still extremely lightweight. Think in terms of 200 times the strength and fiv...
Scientists print nanoscale imaging probe onto tip of optical fiber
May 16, 2017 (SPX)
The high-throughput fabrication technique opens the door for the widespread adoption of this and other nano-optical structures, which squeeze and manipulate lig...
X-ray microscope optics resolve 50-nm features while eliminating chromatic aberrations
May 04, 2017 (SPX)
However, the performance of these microscopes is often affected by problems with chromatic aberrations - optical effects that limit the resolution or degree of ...
Scientists set record resolution for drawing at the one-nanometer length scale
May 02, 2017 (SPX)
In the ongoing quest to pattern materials with ever-smaller feature sizes, scientists at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) - a U.S. Department of En...
Self-assembled nanostructures can be selectively controlled
Apr 27, 2017 (SPX)
The plasmonic nanoparticles can form clusters, plasmonic metamolecules, and then interact with each other. Changing the geometry of the nanoparticles can be use...
Nanotubes that build themselves
Apr 20, 2017 (SPX)
In the present study, researchers from Lund University in Sweden, together with colleagues from Vilnius University in Lithuania, have studied how molecules atta...
Nanoparticles remain unpredictable
Apr 20, 2017 (SPX)
Researchers led by Martin Scheringer, Senior Scientist at the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, wanted to bring some clarity to this issue. They ...
Better living through pressure: Functional nanomaterials made easy
Apr 19, 2017 (SPX)
The process, called stress-induced fabrication, "is a new technology that mimics imprint processes already used by manufacturers," said Sandia researcher Hongyo...
Self-assembling polymers provide thin nanowire template
Apr 13, 2017 (SPX)
In a recent study, a team of researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory (DOE), the University of Chicago, and MIT has develope...
UNM physicist discovers strange forces acting on nanoparticles
Apr 12, 2017 (SPX)
The discovery, published in Physical Review Letters, was made by an international team of researchers lead by UNM Assistant Professor Alejandro Manjavacas in th...
Scientists created nanopowders for the synthesis of new aluminum alloys
Apr 10, 2017 (SPX)
The authors of the project say that with the help of this technology special nanopowders are produced, which are used as modifying additives in the production o...
Scientists identify unusual force acting on nanoparticles
Apr 10, 2017 (UPI)
Recently, physicists were able to measure the Casimir Effect, an unusual force acting on the smallest of particles. The force is created by interactions between...
How nanoparticles affect flow through porous stuff in surprising ways
Apr 06, 2017 (SPX)
Those who have mixed oil and vinegar may have unknowingly observed a strange fluid phenomenon called fingering instability. A type of this phenomenon, called vi...
Carbon nanotubes self-assemble into tiny transistors
Apr 06, 2017 (SPX)
Carbon nanotubes can be used to make very small electronic devices, but they are difficult to handle. University of Groningen scientists, together with colleagu...
Platelets instead of quantum dots
Apr 06, 2017 (SPX)
Scientists have been researching luminous coloured quantum dots (QDs) since the 1980s. These nanocrystals are now part of our everyday lives: the electronics in...
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