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Nanoribbons show 'topological' transport, potential for new technologies
Jan 29, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers have created nanoribbons of an emerging class of materials called topological insulators and used a magnetic field to control their semiconductor pr...
Nano-coating makes coaxial cables lighter
Jan 29, 2016 (SPX)
Common coaxial cables could be made 50 percent lighter with a new nanotube-based outer conductor developed by Rice University scientists. The Rice lab of Profes...
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...
Inspiration for fluorescent nanomaterials was taken from plant antenna
Jan 28, 2016 (SPX)
These new multifunctional materials aim to imitate the photosynthetic organisms of plants. These microorganisms consist of thousands of chlorophyll molecules em...
Microwaved nanotubes come up clean
Jan 26, 2016 (SPX)
Amid all the fancy equipment found in a typical nanomaterials lab, one of the most useful may turn out to be the humble microwave oven. A standard kitchen micro...
Research sheds new light on structure of gold nanoparticles in water
Jan 26, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, and Colorado State University, USA, have for the first time ever determined the dynamical behaviour of the ...
Self-stacking nanogrids
Jan 26, 2016 (SPX)
Since the 1960s, computer chips have been built using a process called photolithography. But in the past five years, chip features have gotten smaller than the ...
Low-cost yet high precision glass nanoengraving
Jan 26, 2016 (SPX)
In a joint study, scientists from the MIPT (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology), ICP (Institute of Chemical Physics) named after Semenov, MSU (Moscow St...
Nano-photonics meets nano-mechanics
Jan 26, 2016 (SPX)
Active in situ control of light at the nanoscale remains a challenge in modern physics and in nanophotonics in particular. A promising approach is to take advan...
New process enables easier isolation of carbon nanotubes
Jan 22, 2016 (SPX)
Manufacture of longer, thinner, and uncontaminated carbon nanotubes, and successfully isolating them, have been ongoing challenges for researchers. A newly deve...
FAU researchers show how mother-of-pearl is formed from nanoparticles
Jan 20, 2016 (SPX)
Materials scientists at FAU have shown for the first time that the mother-of-pearl in clam shells does not form in a crystallisation process but is a result of ...
Shiny fish skin inspires nanoscale light reflectors
Jan 18, 2016 (SPX)
A nature-inspired method to model the reflection of light from the skin of silvery fish and other organisms may be possible, according to Penn State researchers...
Nanodevice, build thyself
Jan 18, 2016 (SPX)
As we continue to shrink electronic components, top-down manufacturing methods begin to approach a physical limit at the nanoscale. Rather than continue to chip...
Engineers invent a bubble-pen to write with nanoparticles
Jan 18, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have solved a problem in micro- and nanofabrication - how to quickly, gen...
Electronically connected graphene nanoribbons foresee high-speed electronics
Jan 15, 2016 (SPX)
An international research team at Tohoku University's Advanced Institute of Materials Research (AIMR) succeeded in chemically interconnecting chiral-edge graphe...
Annihilating nanoscale defects
Jan 15, 2016 (SPX)
Target dates are critical when the semiconductor industry adds small, enhanced features to our favorite devices by integrating advanced materials onto the surfa...
Nano-hybrid materials create magnetic effect
Jan 15, 2016 (SPX)
Developing novel materials from the atoms up goes faster when some of the trial and error is eliminated. A new Rice University and Montreal Polytechnic study ai...
Mechanical properties of nanomaterials are altered due to electric field
Jan 13, 2016 (SPX)
Mechanical properties of nanomaterials can be altered due to the application of voltage, University of Wyoming researchers have discovered. The researchers, led...
New approach for controlled fabrication of carbon nanostructures
Jan 07, 2016 (SPX)
An international team of researchers including Professor Federico Rosei and members of his group at INRS has developed a new strategy for fabricating atomically...
Building better fighter planes and space ships
Jan 05, 2016 (SPX)
Thousands bound together are still thinner than a single strand of human hair, but with research from Binghamton University, boron nitride nanotubes may help bu...
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