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Bacterial nanowires: Not what we thought they were
Aug 21, 2014 (SPX)
For the past 10 years, scientists have been fascinated by a type of "electric bacteria" that shoots out long tendrils like electric wires, using them to power t...
Calculations with Nanoscale Smart Particles
Aug 21, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers from the Institute of General Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences a...
Sun's activity influences natural climate change
Aug 19, 2014 (SPX)
For the first time, a research team has been able to reconstruct the solar activity at the end of the last ice age, around 20,000-10,000 years ago, by analysing...
Eco-friendly 'pre-fab nanoparticles' could revolutionize nano manufacturing
Aug 18, 2014 (SPX)
A team of materials chemists, polymer scientists, device physicists and others at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have reported a breakthrough technique...
Super-Black Nano-Coating to Be Tested for the First Time in Space
Aug 13, 2014 (SPX)
An emerging super-black nanotechnology that promises to make spacecraft instruments more sensitive without enlarging their size will be tested for the first tim...
Self-assembly of gold nanoparticles into small clusters
Aug 07, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers at HZB in co-operation with Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin (HU, Berlin) have made an astonishing observation: they were investigating the formation ...
A Crystal Wedding in the Nanocosmos
Jul 28, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), the Vienna University of Technology and the Maria Curie-Sklodowska University Lublin have succee...
NIST shows ultrasonically propelled nanorods spin dizzyingly fast
Jul 23, 2014 (SPX)
Vibrate a solution of rod-shaped metal nanoparticles in water with ultrasound and they'll spin around their long axes like tiny drill bits. Why? No one yet know...
Low cost technique improves properties of nanomaterials
Jul 23, 2014 (SPX)
The challenges faced by researchers in modifying properties of nanomaterials for application in devices may be addressed by a simple technique, thanks to recent...
Nanocamera takes pictures at distances smaller than light's own wavelength
Jul 22, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have demonstrated that an array of novel gold, pillar-bowtie nanoantennas (pBNAs) can be used like...
smallest Swiss Cross made from just 20 atoms
Jul 16, 2014 (SPX)
The manipulation of atoms has reached a new level: Together with teams from Finland and Japan, physicists from the University of Basel were able to place 20 sin...
Rice nanophotonics experts create powerful molecular sensor
Jul 16, 2014 (SPX)
Nanophotonics experts at Rice University have created a unique sensor that amplifies the optical signature of molecules by about 100 billion times. Newly publis...
Researchers demonstrate novel, tunable nanoantennas
Jul 16, 2014 (SPX)
An interdisciplinary research team at the University of Illinois has developed a novel, tunable nanoantenna that paves the way for new kinds of plasmonic-based ...
Illinois study advances limits for ultrafast nano-devices
Jul 11, 2014 (SPX)
A recent study by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign provides new insights on the physical mechanisms governing the interplay of spin...
Diamond plates create nanostructures through pressure, not chemistry
Jul 01, 2014 (SPX)
You wouldn't think that mechanical force - the simple kind used to eject unruly patrons from bars, shoe a horse or emboss the raised numerals on credit cards - ...
Shaken, not stirred -- mythical god's capsules please!
Jul 01, 2014 (SPX)
Everything depends on how you look at them. Looking from one side you will see one face; and when looking from the opposite side - you will see a different one....
Scientists Develop Force Sensor from Carbon Nanotubes
Jul 01, 2014 (SPX)
A group of researchers from Russia, Belarus and Spain, including MIPT professor Yury Lozovik, have developed a microscopic force sensor based on carbon nanotube...
A smashing new look at nanoribbons
Jul 01, 2014 (SPX)
Carbon nanotubes "unzipped" into graphene nanoribbons by a chemical process invented at Rice University are finding use in all kinds of projects, but Rice scien...
Nanoscale composites improve MRI
Jun 17, 2014 (SPX)
Submicroscopic particles that contain even smaller particles of iron oxide could make magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) a far more powerful tool to detect and fi...
DNA-Linked Nanoparticles Form Switchable Thin Films on a Liquid Surface
Jun 12, 2014 (SPX)
Scientists seeking ways to engineer the assembly of tiny particles measuring just billionths of a meter have achieved a new first-the formation of a single laye...
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