Nano Technology News

February 03, 2016

New type of nanowires, built with natural gas heating
Ulsan, South Korea (SPX) Feb 02, 2016
A team of Korean researchers, affiliated with UNIST has recently pioneered in developing a new simple nanowire manufacturing technique that uses self-catalytic growth process assisted by thermal decomposition of natural gas. According to the research team, this method is simple, reproducible, size-controllable, and cost-effective in that lithium-ion batteries could also benefit from it. In their approach, they discovered that germanium nanowires are grown by the reduction of germanium oxide partic ... read more

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				Research sheds new light on structure of gold nanoparticles in water Researchers at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, and Colorado State University, USA, have for the first time ever determined the dynamical behaviour of the ligand layer of a water-soluble gold n ... more		Self-stacking nanogrids Since the 1960s, computer chips have been built using a process called photolithography. But in the past five years, chip features have gotten smaller than the wavelength of light, which has require ... more

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New process enables easier isolation of carbon nanotubes Manufacture of longer, thinner, and uncontaminated carbon nanotubes, and successfully isolating them, have been ongoing challenges for researchers. A newly developed method has opened up new possibi ... more		FAU researchers show how mother-of-pearl is formed from nanoparticles Materials scientists at FAU have shown for the first time that the mother-of-pearl in clam shells does not form in a crystallisation process but is a result of the aggregation of nanoparticles withi ... more		Nano-hybrid materials create magnetic effect Developing novel materials from the atoms up goes faster when some of the trial and error is eliminated. A new Rice University and Montreal Polytechnic study aims to do that for graphene and boron n ... more		Engineers invent a bubble-pen to write with nanoparticles Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have solved a problem in micro- and nanofabrication - how to quickly, gently and precisely handle tiny particle ... more

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