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Researchers test carbon nanotube-based ultra-low voltage integrated circuits

Jun 27, 2012 (SPX)

A team of researchers from Peking University in Beijing, China, and Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, has demonstrated that carbon nanotube-based integ...

Graphene is a tunable plasmonic medium

Jun 26, 2012 (SPX)

With a beam of infrared light, scientists have sent ripples of electrons along the surface of graphene and demonstrated that they can control the length and hei...

Researchers Find Gold Nanoparticles Capable of 'Unzipping' DNA

Jun 26, 2012 (SPX)

New research from North Carolina State University finds that gold nanoparticles with a slight positive charge work collectively to unravel DNA's double helix. T...

Researchers tune the strain in graphene drumheads to create quantum dots

Jun 26, 2012 (SPX)

Tightening or relaxing the tension on a drumhead will change the way the drum sounds. The same goes for drumheads made from graphene, only instead of changing t...

Graphene? From any lab!

Jun 26, 2012 (SPX)

Considered by many as the most promising material of the future, graphene still remains an expensive and hard-to-fabricate substance. Researchers from the Insti...

Taming light with graphene

Jun 26, 2012 (SPX)

Spanish research groups achieve first ever visualizations of light guided with nanometric precision on graphene (a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon atoms). This v...

In nanotube growth, errors are not an option

Jun 21, 2012 (SPX)

At the right temperature, with the right catalyst, there's no reason a perfect single-walled carbon nanotube 50,000 times thinner than a human hair can't be gro...

From pomegranate peel to nanoparticles

Jun 21, 2012 (SPX)

Food waste is a growing problem in many parts of the world, but discarded fruit peel, in the case of pomegranates, could be put to good use in the burgeoning fi...

Stanford engineers perfecting carbon nanotubes for highly energy-efficient computing

Jun 19, 2012 (SPX)

Energy efficiency is the most significant challenge standing in the way of continued miniaturization of electronic systems, and miniaturization is the principal...

Syracuse University researchers use nanotechnology to harness the power of fireflies

Jun 19, 2012 (SPX)

What do fireflies, nanorods, and Christmas lights have in common? Someday, consumers may be able to purchase multicolor strings of light that don't need electri...

Study Improves Understanding of Surface Molecules in Controlling Size of Gold Nanoparticles

Jun 19, 2012 (SPX)

North Carolina State University researchers have shown that the "bulkiness" of molecules commonly used in the creation of gold nanoparticles actually dictates t...

Switchable nano magnets

Jun 19, 2012 (SPX)

Using individual molecules instead of electronic or magnetic memory cells would revolutionise data storage technology, as molecular memories could be thousand-f...

Self-assembling nanocubes for next generation antennas and lenses

Jun 14, 2012 (SPX)

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering have developed a technique that enables metallic nanocrystals to self-assemb...

Researchers watch tiny living machines self-assemble

Jun 13, 2012 (SPX)

Enabling bioengineers to design new molecular machines for nanotechnology applications is one of the possible outcomes of a study by University of Montreal rese...

'Nanocable' could be big boon for energy storage

Jun 13, 2012 (SPX)

Thanks to a little serendipity, researchers at Rice University have created a tiny coaxial cable that is about a thousand times smaller than a human hair and ha...

Researchers love triangles

Jun 11, 2012 (SPX)

A research team at Case Western Reserve University has found that gold catalysts shaped in the form of a cube, triangle, or other higher order structures grow n...

Coatings with nanoparticles that interact with sunlight and eliminate contaminants are developed

Jun 01, 2012 (SPX)

Researchers of the UPNA-Public University of Navarre have developed a type of coating for construction materials. It is based on nanoparticles that interact wit...

Wyss Institute develops nanodevice manufacturing strategy using DNA 'building blocks'

May 31, 2012 (SPX)

Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have developed a method for building complex nanostructures out of...

Stunning image of smallest possible 5 rings

May 29, 2012 (SPX)

Scientists have created and imaged the smallest possible five-ringed structure - about 100,000 times thinner than a human hair - and you'll probably recognise i...

First direct observation of oriented attachment in nanocrystal growth

May 29, 2012 (SPX)

Through biomineralization, nature is able to produce such engineering marvels as mother of pearl, or nacre, the inner lining of abalone shells renowned for both...