NANO TECH - NANO DAILY

Dec 06, 2018 (SPX)

The resistive switching cell made from oxide crystal nanowires is thus proving to be the ideal candidate for use in building bioinspired "neuromorphic" processo...

How microscopic machines can fail in the blink of an eye

Dec 04, 2018 (SPX)

By using this method for microscopic failure analysis, researchers and manufacturers could improve the reliability of the MEMS components that they are developi...

Stealth-cap technology for light-emitting nanoparticles

Nov 15, 2018 (SPX)

The team has developed the so-called "upconverting" nanoparticles that not only convert infrared light into UV-visible light, but also are water-soluble, remain...

Nano-scale process may speed arrival of cheaper hi-tech products

Nov 12, 2018 (SPX)

The process could speed the commercial development of devices, materials and technologies that exploit the physical properties of nanoparticles, which are thous...

Watching nanoparticles

Nov 08, 2018 (SPX)

Despite heavy skepticism from the microscopy community, she and her fellow researchers were attempting a union between light microscopy and transmission electro...

Penn engineers develop ultrathin, ultralight nanocardboard

Nov 07, 2018 (SPX)

Now, a team of Penn Engineers has demonstrated a new material they call "nanocardboard," an ultrathin equivalent of corrugated paper cardboard. A square centime...

Physicists designed new antenna for supersensitive magnetometers of a new generation

Nov 06, 2018 (SPX)

It is capable for uniform and coherent addressing of the electronic spins of an ensemble of nanodiamond structure defects. This can be used to create super-sens...

Next generation of watch springs

Oct 31, 2018 (SPX)

By now, the production in the Empa lab has outgrown the first pilot tests. On a regular basis the electroplated springs are delivered to the R and D department ...

Caltech engineers create an optical gyroscope smaller than a grain of rice

Oct 26, 2018 (SPX)

But open up a cell phone today, and you will find a microelectromechanical sensor (MEMS), the modern-day equivalent, which measures changes in the forces acting...

Researchers discover directional and long-lived nanolight in a 2D material

Oct 25, 2018 (SPX)

Future information and communication technologies will rely on the manipulation of not only electrons but also of light at the nanometer-scale. Squeezing (confi...

Big discoveries about tiny particles

Oct 09, 2018 (SPX)

Now, Hojin Kim, a graduate student in chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Delaware, together with a team of collaborating scientists at t...

Precise control of multimetallic one-nanometer cluster formation achieved

Oct 01, 2018 (SPX)

Multimetallic clusters - typically composed of three or more metals - are garnering attention as they exhibit properties that cannot be attained by single-metal...

Nucleation a boon to sustainable nanomanufacturing

Sep 27, 2018 (SPX)

Young-Shin Jun, professor of energy, environmental and chemical engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and Quingun Li, a former doctoral ...

Two quantum dots are better than one: Using one dot to sense changes in another

Sep 27, 2018 (SPX)

It is important to develop a way to measure the charge in a single self-assembled quantum dot to achieve quantum information processing; however, this is diffic...

New nanoparticle superstructures made from pyramid-shaped building blocks

Sep 25, 2018 (SPX)

"There's been a lot of research in making superstructures from spherical nanoparticles, but much less using tetrahedral building blocks," said Ou Chen, an assis...

Cannibalistic materials feed on themselves to grow new nanostructures

Sep 04, 2018 (SPX)

The findings, reported in Nature Communications, provide insights that may improve design of 2D materials for fast-charging energy-storage and electronic device...

First-ever colored thin films of nanotubes created

Aug 31, 2018 (SPX)

In their new study published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), Aalto University researchers present a way to control the fabrication of ca...

Nanotubes change the shape of water

Aug 27, 2018 (SPX)

Rice materials scientist Rouzbeh Shahsavari and his team used molecular models to demonstrate their theory that weak van der Waals forces between the inner surf...

Fast visible-UV light nanobelt photodetector

Aug 27, 2018 (SPX)

As a representative II-VI semiconductor, CdS is a promising material for visible-UV light detection. However, for pure NWs/NBs based photodetectors, fast photor...

Big-picture thinking can advance nanoparticle manufacturing

Aug 23, 2018 (SPX)

Today's engineered nanoparticles are integral components of everything from the quantum dot nanocrystals coloring the brilliant displays of state-of-the-art tel...