NANO TECH - NANO DAILY

New microwave imaging approach opens a nanoscale view on processes in liquids

Mar 22, 2016 (SPX)

U.S. government nanotechnology researchers have demonstrated a new window to view what are now mostly clandestine operations occurring in soggy, inhospitable re...

ASRC professor leads study on reconfigurable magnetic nanopatterns

Mar 18, 2016 (SPX)

A team of international scientists led by researchers of the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) and the Politecnico of Milan in Italy has demonstrated...

Atomic vibrations in nanomaterials

Mar 17, 2016 (SPX)

All materials are made up of atoms, which vibrate. These vibrations, or 'phonons', are responsible, for example, for how electric charge and heat is transported...

NIST invents fleet and fast test for nanomanufacturing quality control

Mar 13, 2016 (SPX)

Manufacturers may soon have a speedy and nondestructive way to test a wide array of materials under real-world conditions, thanks to an advance that researchers...

Building a better mouse trap, from the atoms up

Mar 11, 2016 (SPX)

For most of human history, the discovery of new materials has been a crapshoot. But now, UConn researchers have systematized the search with machine learning th...

Nanoparticles on nanosteps

Mar 08, 2016 (SPX)

Platinum is one of the costly metals used as catalysts in new technologies employed for industrial chemical processes, renewable energy sources, pollution contr...

From backyard pool chemical to nanomaterial

Mar 08, 2016 (SPX)

Could a cheap molecule used to disinfect swimming pools provide the key to creating a new form of DNA nanomaterials? Cyanuric acid is commonly used to stabilize...

Thermal measurements with nanometer resolution

Mar 08, 2016 (SPX)

Understanding nanoscale heat flow is critical in the design of integrated electronic devices and in the development of materials for thermal insulation and ther...

Physicists promise a copper revolution in nanophotonics

Feb 29, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) have for the first time experimentally demonstrated that copper nanophotonic components c...

Stretchable nano-devices towards smart contact lenses

Feb 23, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers at RMIT University and the University of Adelaide have joined forces to create a stretchable nano-scale device to manipulate light. The device manip...

New ways to construct contactless magnetic gears

Feb 18, 2016 (SPX)

The new milk frother you are using to prepare your cappuccino is likely using magnetic gears. Magnetic gears transmit rotary motion like mechanical gears but in...

Scientists take nanoparticle snapshots

Feb 12, 2016 (SPX)

Just as a photographer needs a camera with a split-second shutter speed to capture rapid motion, scientists looking at the behavior of tiny materials need speci...

Scientists find a new way to make nanowire lasers

Feb 12, 2016 (SPX)

The nanowires, with diameters as small as 200 nanometers (billionths of a meter) and a blend of materials that has also proven effective in next-generation sola...

Nanoscale cavity strongly links quantum particles

Feb 09, 2016 (SPX)

Scientists have created a crystal structure that boosts the interaction between tiny bursts of light and individual electrons, an advance that could be a signif...

Scientists take key step toward custom-made nanoscale chemical factories

Feb 09, 2016 (SPX)

Scientists have for the first time reengineered a building block of a geometric nanocompartment that occurs naturally in bacteria. They introduced a metal bindi...

New type of nanowires, built with natural gas heating

Feb 02, 2016 (SPX)

A team of Korean researchers, affiliated with UNIST has recently pioneered in developing a new simple nanowire manufacturing technique that uses self-catalytic ...

Nanosheet growth technique could revolutionize nanomaterial production

Feb 02, 2016 (SPX)

After six years of painstaking effort, a group of University of Wisconsin-Madison materials scientists believe the tiny sheets of the semiconductor zinc oxide t...

Novel nanotechnology technique makes table-top production of flat optics a reality

Jan 29, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a simplified approach to fabricating flat, ultra-thin optics. The new approach en...

New record in nanoelectronics at ultralow temperatures

Jan 29, 2016 (SPX)

The first ever measurement of the temperature of electrons in a nanoelectronic device a few thousandths of a degree above absolute zero was demonstrated in a jo...

Acoustic tweezers moves cells in three dimensions, builds structures

Jan 29, 2016 (SPX)

Acoustic tweezers that can move single cells in three dimensions using surface acoustic waves without touching, deforming or labeling the cells are possible, ac...