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Layered security: Carbon nanotubes promise improved flame-resistant coating
Jan 21, 2014 (SPX)
Using an approach akin to assembling a club sandwich at the nanoscale, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers have succeeded in craft...
Extraordinary sensors pushed to their boundaries
Jan 17, 2014 (SPX)
Last year, Tobias Kippenberg and his team from the Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum Measurements (LPQM1) presented a new-generation sensor capable of detecti...
Understanding secondary light emissions by plasmonic nanostructures
Jan 17, 2014 (SPX)
"Plasmonic nanostructures are of great current interest as chemical sensors, in vivo imaging agents, and for photothermal therapeutics," explained David G. Cahi...
No nano-dust danger from facade paint
Jan 17, 2014 (SPX)
After 42 months the EU research project "NanoHouse" has ended, and the verdict is a cautious "all clear" - nanoparticles in the paint used on building facades d...
Discovery at nanoscale has major implications for manufacturers
Jan 07, 2014 (SPX)
Manufacturers of increasingly minute computer chips, transistors and other products will have to take special note of research findings at the University of Hud...
New magnetic behavior in nanoparticles could lead to even smaller digital memories
Dec 23, 2013 (SPX)
Electronic devices such as mobile phones and tablets spur on a scientific race to find smaller and smaller information processing and storage elements. One of t...
Cellulose nanocrystals possible 'green' wonder material
Dec 22, 2013 (SPX)
The same tiny cellulose crystals that give trees and plants their high strength, light weight and resilience, have now been shown to have the stiffness of steel...
DNA motor 'walks' along nanotube, transports tiny particle
Dec 22, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers have created a new type of molecular motor made of DNA and demonstrated its potential by using it to transport a nanoparticle along the length of a ...
Microprinting leads to low-cost artificial cells
Dec 22, 2013 (SPX)
Easily manufactured, low-cost artificial cells manufactured using microprinting may one day serve as drug and gene delivery devices and in biomaterials, biotech...
Graphene nanoribbons an ice-melting coat for radar
Dec 20, 2013 (SPX)
Ribbons of ultrathin graphene combined with polyurethane paint meant for cars is just right for deicing sensitive military radar domes, according to scientists ...
Nanofriction on the tip of the microscope
Dec 20, 2013 (SPX)
Atomic force microscopes are able to reproduce spectacular images, at the scale of single atoms. This is made possible by the oscillation of a very sharp probe ...
Nanoscale friction: High energy losses in the vicinity of charge density waves
Dec 20, 2013 (SPX)
In collaboration with the University of Basel, an international team of researchers has observed a strong energy loss caused by frictional effects in the vicini...
Nanoparticles and their orbital positions
Dec 19, 2013 (SPX)
Physicists have developed a "planet-satellite model" to precisely connect and arrange nanoparticles in three-dimensional structures. Inspired by the photosystem...
Alzheimer-substance may be the nanomaterial of tomorrow
Dec 19, 2013 (SPX)
It causes brain diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Creutzfeldt-Jakob's disease. It is also hard and rigid as steel. Now research at Chalmers University ...
Oregon scientists offer new insights on controlling nanoparticle stability
Dec 14, 2013 (SPX)
University of Oregon chemists studying the structure of ligand-stabilized gold nanoparticles have captured fundamental new insights about their stability. The i...
Scientists scale terahertz peaks in nanotubes
Dec 14, 2013 (SPX)
Carbon nanotubes carry plasmonic signals in the terahertz range of the electromagnetic spectrum, but only if they're metallic by nature or doped. In new researc...
Graphene-based nano-antennas may enable networks of tiny machines
Dec 14, 2013 (SPX)
Networks of nanometer-scale machines offer exciting potential applications in medicine, industry, environmental protection and defense, but until now there's be...
Less is more with adding graphene to nanofibers
Dec 14, 2013 (SPX)
Figuring that if some is good, more must be better, researchers have been trying to pack more graphene, a supermaterial, into structural composites. Collaborati...
Berkeley Lab Researchers Discover Nanoscale Shape-Memory Oxide
Dec 12, 2013 (SPX)
Listen up nickel-titanium and all you other shape-memory alloys, there's a new kid on the block that just claimed the championship for elasticity and is primed ...
Laser light at useful wavelengths from semiconductor nanowires
Dec 09, 2013 (SPX)
Thread-like semiconductor structures called nanowires, so thin that they are effectively one-dimensional, show potential as lasers for applications in computing...
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