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New NIST nanoscale indenter takes novel approach to measuring surface properties
Jul 26, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of North Carolina have demonstrated a new design for an instrument...
Desktop printing at the nano level
Jul 23, 2013 (SPX)
A new low-cost, high-resolution tool is primed to revolutionize how nanotechnology is produced from the desktop, according to a new study by Northwestern Univer...
NASA Engineer Achieves Another Milestone in Emerging Nanotechnology
Jul 19, 2013 (SPX)
A NASA engineer has achieved yet another milestone in his quest to advance an emerging super-black nanotechnology that promises to make spacecraft instruments m...
New nanoscale imaging method finds application in plasmonics
Jul 17, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland have shown how to make nanoscale measurements of criti...
York Nanocentre researchers image individual atoms in a living catalytic reaction
Jul 16, 2013 (SPX)
Groundbreaking new electron microscopy technology developed at the York JEOL Nanocentre at the University of York is allowing researchers to observe and analyse...
Ingested nanoparticle toxicity
Jul 01, 2013 (SPX)
Ingestion of commonly encountered nanoparticles at typical environmental levels is unlikely to cause overt toxicity, according to US researchers. Nevertheless t...
Quantum engines must break down
Jun 28, 2013 (SPX)
Our present understanding of thermodynamics is fundamentally incorrect if applied to small systems and needs to be modified, according to new research from Univ...
Efficient Production Process for Coveted Nanocrystals
Jun 28, 2013 (SPX)
A formation mechanism of nanocrystalline cerium dioxide (CeO2), a versatile nanomaterial, has been unveiled by scientists from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Ros...
Nanotechnology holds big potential for NMSU faculty
Jun 27, 2013 (SPX)
Sending probes to Mars and harvesting energy are just two of the many applications of thermoelectric and nanotechnology research conducted by Professor Julio Ma...
Sound waves precisely position nanowires
Jun 24, 2013 (SPX)
The smaller components become, the more difficult it is to create patterns in an economical and reproducible way, according to an interdisciplinary team of Penn...
Spot-welding graphene nanoribbons atom by atom
Jun 19, 2013 (SPX)
Scientists at Aalto University and Utrecht University have created single atom contacts between gold and graphene nanoribbons. In their article published in Nat...
Nanoparticle Opens the Door to Clean-Energy Alternatives
Jun 18, 2013 (SPX)
Cheaper clean-energy technologies could be made possible thanks to a new discovery. Led by Raymond Schaak, a professor of chemistry at Penn State University, re...
Nano-thermometer enables first atomic-scale heat transfer measurements
Jun 17, 2013 (SPX)
In findings that could help overcome a major technological hurdle in the road toward smaller and more powerful electronics, an international research team invol...
Polymer structures serve as 'nanoreactors' for nanocrystals with uniform sizes, shapes
Jun 14, 2013 (SPX)
Using star-shaped block co-polymer structures as tiny reaction vessels, researchers have developed an improved technique for producing nanocrystals with consist...
Controlling magnetic clouds in graphene
Jun 14, 2013 (SPX)
In a report published in Nature Communications, a University of Manchester team led by Dr Irina Grigorieva shows how to create elementary magnetic moments in gr...
New microfluidic method expands toolbox for nanoparticle manipulation
Jun 11, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a new flow-based method for manipulating and confining single particles in free sol...
Carbon nanotubes for molecular magnetic resonances
Jun 11, 2013 (SPX)
More resistant than steel, carbon nanotubes are one of the strongest and hardest materials known. Their impressive electrical and thermal properties make them a...
Stretchable, transparent graphene-metal nanowire electrode
Jun 04, 2013 (SPX)
A hybrid transparent and stretchable electrode could open the new way for flexible displays, solar cells, and even electronic devices fitted on a curvature subs...
Shape-shifting nanoparticles flip from sphere to net in response to tumor signal
May 29, 2013 (SPX)
Scientists at the University of California, San Diego, have designed tiny spherical particles to float easily through the bloodstream after injection, then asse...
Gold nanocrystal vibration captured on billion-frames-per-second film
May 28, 2013 (SPX)
A billon-frames-per-second film has captured the vibrations of gold nanocrystals in stunning detail for the first time. The film, which was made using 3D imagin...
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