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Researchers use acoustic waves to move fluids at the nanoscale
Nov 16, 2016 (SPX)
A team of mechanical engineers at the University of California San Diego has successfully used acoustic waves to move fluids through small channels at the nanos...
Nano-scale electronics score laboratory victory
Nov 14, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering have pioneered a method for growing an atomic scale electronic material at the highest quality ever reported...
'Pressure-welding' nanotubes creates ultrastrong material
Nov 09, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), Technological Institute for Superhard and Novel Carbon Materials (TISNCM), Lomonosov Mos...
Researchers use graphene templates to make new metal-oxide nanostructures
Nov 09, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers from Brown University have found a new method for making ultrathin metal-oxide sheets containing intricate wrinkle and crumple patterns. In a study ...
Shedding light on the formation of nanodroplets in aqueous
Nov 09, 2016 (SPX)
A team of researchers in Russia worked together to shed new light on the heterogeneous nature of a polar organic liquid mixed with water. They used laser light ...
Light drives single-molecule nanoroadsters
Nov 08, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists at Rice University and at the University of Graz, Austria, are driving three-wheeled, single-molecule "nanoroadsters" with light and, for the first t...
Nanostructures made of pure gold
Nov 08, 2016 (SPX)
The idea is reminiscent of the ancient alchemists' attempts to create gold from worthless substances: Researchers from TU Wien (Vienna) have discovered a novel ...
First time physicists observed and quantified tiny nanoparticle crossing lipid membrane
Nov 07, 2016 (SPX)
Nanomaterials have invaded most of products used in our daily life. They are found everywhere: from cosmetics (creams, toothpastes, and shampoo), food component...
Nanoparticle taxicab materials can identify, collect and transport debris on surfaces
Nov 07, 2016 (SPX)
Inspired by proteins that can recognize dangerous microbes and debris, then engulf such material to get rid of it, polymer scientists led by Todd Emrick at the ...
Researchers nearly reached quantum limit with nanodrums
Nov 03, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers at Aalto University and the University of Jyvaskyla have developed a new method of measuring microwave signals extremely accurately. This method can...
A tiny machine
Nov 01, 2016 (SPX)
In 1959 renowned physicist Richard Feynman, in his talk "Plenty of Room at the Bottom," spoke of a future in which tiny machines could perform huge feats. Like ...
Nanoantenna lighting-rod effect produces fast optical switches
Oct 26, 2016 (SPX)
A team of scientists, led by the University of Southampton, have produced a fast nanoscale optical transistor using gold nanoantenna assisted phase transition. ...
Nanotechnology for energy materials: Electrodes like leaf veins
Oct 10, 2016 (SPX)
An international team headed by HZB scientist Prof. Michael Giersig has recently demonstrated for these applications that networks of metallic mesh possessing f...
Electron beam microscope directly writes nanoscale features in liquid with metal ink
Oct 06, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are the first to harness a scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) to directly w...
NIST-made 'sun and rain' used to study nanoparticle release from polymers
Oct 05, 2016 (SPX)
If the 1967 film "The Graduate" were remade today, Mr. McGuire's famous advice to young Benjamin Braddock would probably be updated to "Plastics ... with nanopa...
A 'nano-golf course' to assemble precisely nanoparticules
Oct 04, 2016 (SPX)
Whether it has to do with making pens or building space shuttles, the manufacturing process consists of creating components and then carefully assembling them. ...
Scientists forge nanogold chains with atomic precision
Sep 22, 2016 (UPI)
Bling isn't just for athletes and musicians. Recently, a team of engineers got in on the game, only on a much smaller scale. A group of scientists at the Univer...
NIST illuminates transfer of nanoscale motion through microscale machine
Sep 19, 2016 (SPX)
From the printing press to the jet engine, mechanical machines with moving parts have been a mainstay of technology for centuries. As U.S. industry develops sma...
Researchers synthesize atomically precise diamond-shaped nanoclusters of silver
Sep 13, 2016 (SPX)
A wide international collaboration involving researchers from four countries - China, Australia, Germany and Finland - have managed to synthesize and characteri...
A versatile method to pattern functionalized nanowires
Sep 13, 2016 (SPX)
There has been considerable interest worldwide in the patterning of functionalized nanowires--which excel both in semiconductivity and as catalyzers--due to the...
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