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Stanford engineers show how to optimize carbon nanotube arrays for use in hot spots
Dec 08, 2013 (SPX)
When engineers design devices, they must often join together two materials that expand and contract at different rates as temperatures change. Such thermal diff...
Ultra-sensitive force sensing with a levitating nanoparticle
Dec 03, 2013 (SPX)
A recent study led by researchers of the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) achieved the highest force sensitivity ever observed with a nano-mechanical reson...
Graphene nanoribbons for 'reading' DNA
Nov 25, 2013 (SPX)
If we wanted to count the number of people in a crowd, we could make on the fly estimates, very likely to be imprecise, or we could ask each person to pass thro...
New hologram technology created with tiny nanoantennas
Nov 19, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers have created tiny holograms using a "metasurface" capable of the ultra-efficient control of light, representing a potential new technology for advan...
Nano magnets arise at 2-D boundaries
Nov 18, 2013 (SPX)
When you squeeze atoms, you don't get atom juice. You get magnets. According to a new theory by Rice University scientists, imperfections in certain two-dimensi...
Structure of bacterial nanowire protein hints at secrets of conduction
Nov 18, 2013 (SPX)
Tiny electrical wires protrude from some bacteria and contribute to rock and dirt formation. Researchers studying the protein that makes up one such wire have d...
A nano-sized sponge made of electrons
Nov 14, 2013 (SPX)
A new chapter has been opened in our understanding of the chemical activity of nanoparticles says a team of international scientists. Using the X-ray beams of t...
Turning nanoparticles into complex nanostructures
Nov 14, 2013 (SPX)
Animal and plant cells are prominent examples of how nature constructs ever-larger units in a targeted, preprogrammed manner using molecules as building blocks....
All aboard the nanotrain network
Nov 14, 2013 (SPX)
Tiny self-assembling transport networks, powered by nano-scale motors and controlled by DNA, have been developed by scientists at Oxford University and Warwick ...
Taking a New Look at Carbon Nanotubes
Nov 13, 2013 (SPX)
Despite their almost incomprehensibly small size - a diameter about one ten-thousandth the thickness of a human hair - single-walled carbon nanotubes come in a ...
Lawrence Livermore researchers unveil carbon nanotube jungles to better detect molecules
Nov 09, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich have developed a new method of usin...
Defective nanotubes turned into light emitters
Nov 09, 2013 (SPX)
UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country researchers have developed and patented a new source of light emitter based on boron nitride nanotubes and suitable for...
Nanomaterials database improved to help consumers, scientists track products
Nov 09, 2013 (SPX)
Nanomaterials are the heart of the smaller, better electronics developed during the last decade, as well as new materials, medical diagnostics and therapeutics,...
York researchers discover important mechanism behind nanoparticle reactivity
Nov 07, 2013 (SPX)
An international team of researchers has used pioneering electron microscopy techniques to discover an important mechanism behind the reaction of metallic nanop...
Scientists untangle nanotubes to release their potential in the electronics industry
Oct 24, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers have demonstrated how to produce electronic inks for the development of new applications using the 'wonder material', carbon nanotubes. Carbon nanot...
Nano-Cone Textures Generate Extremely Robust Water-Repellent Surfaces
Oct 24, 2013 (SPX)
When it comes to designing extremely water-repellent surfaces, shape and size matter. That's the finding of a group of scientists at the U.S. Department of Ener...
Newly discovered mechanism propels micromotors
Oct 23, 2013 (SPX)
Scientists studying the behavior of platinum particles immersed in hydrogen peroxide may have discovered a new way to propel microscopic machines. The new mecha...
Container's material properties affect the viscosity of water at the nanoscale
Sep 24, 2013 (SPX)
Water pours into a cup at about the same rate regardless of whether the water bottle is made of glass or plastic. But at nanometer-size scales for water and pot...
Nanoscale neuronal activity measured for the first time
Sep 24, 2013 (SPX)
A new technique that allows scientists to measure the electrical activity in the communication junctions of the nervous systems has been developed by a research...
Densest array of carbon nanotubes grown to date
Sep 24, 2013 (SPX)
Carbon nanotubes' outstanding mechanical, electrical and thermal properties make them an alluring material to electronics manufacturers. However, until recently...
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