Unzipped Nanotubes Unlock Potential for Batteries
courtesy ScienceDaily Researchers at Rice University have come up with a new way to boost the efficiency of the ubiquitous lithium ion (LI) battery by employing ribbons of graphene that start as carbon...
View ArticleSmartphones data transfer to jump to ten exabytes by year 2017
World Record in Silicon Integrated Nanophotonics: More Energy Efficiency in the Data Communication courtesy Science Daily Researchers of the Institute of Electrical and Optical Communications...
View ArticleSmall, fast and not so demanding: breakthrough in memory technologies could...
courtesy HebrewUniversityofJerusalem - Memory devices like disk drives, flash drives and RAM play an important role in our lives. They are an essential component of our computers, phones, electronic...
View ArticleNanotechnology in plant disease management
(Nanowerk News) Nanotechnology has been found to be highly useful in medical diagnostics, drug delivery, tissue engineering, etc. In new work reported in ACS Nano (“Nanotechnology in Plant Disease...
View ArticleCarbon Nanotubes for Molecular Magnetic Resonances
courtesy ScienceDaily, June 9, 2013 — More resistant than steel, carbon nanotubes are one of the strongest and hardest materials known. Their impressive electrical and thermal properties make them an...
View ArticleDevice Captures Signatures and Fingerprints With Tiny LEDs
by John Toon, courtesy Georgia Institute of Technology -Aug. 11, 2013 — Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology want to put your signature up in lights — tiny lights, that is. Using...
View ArticleNano-Optics: Integrated Optical Circuits Coming Soon?
Sep. 11, 2013 — An experimental demonstration of light scattering controlled by silicon nanoparticles augurs well for the development of integrated optical circuits. courtesy ScienceDaily - Optical...
View ArticleNew Approach for Mixing Nanoparticles to Produce Composite Materials
A newly published study from scientists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory demonstrates a general strategy for the creation of heterogeneous nanoparticle superlattices using DNA and carboxylic-based...
View ArticleWhen Nanotechnology Meets Quantum Physics in One Dimension: New Experiment...
How would electrons behave if confined to a wire so slender they could pass through it only in single-file? The question has intrigued scientists for more than half a century. In 1950, Japanese Nobel...
View ArticleInvasion of the NANODRONES
by Todd Bierman Images of tiny, unmanned aircraft come to mind, but the smallest of drones operate on the cellular level,
View ArticleThe Invincible Rhythm of ‘Brain Jelly’
In a lab on the other side of the planet, at this very moment, an organic-inorganic jelly now beats with a like-life tempo
View ArticleSuper Lens
Common glass optical lenses produce beautiful photos, often with exquisite detail
View ArticleWhy do you think they call it dope, kid?
The analogy of oil being 'dope' fits. It's a quick fix with bad downsides and poor regard for the future. The present furious pace of technological growth in solar may finally allow our avarice to...
View ArticlePurify, Kill, Repeat … necessary crytotoxic nanotubes
Not a breakthrough-less day goes by for carbon nanotubes. The pace of techno-evolution is matched only by the astounding timeliness of applications that seem to magically appear in answer to the...
View ArticleA metal composite that will (literally) float your boat
CREDIT: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING BROOKLYN, New York — Researchers have demonstrated a new metal matrix composite that is so light that it can float on water. A boat made of...
View ArticleEfficiency record for black silicon solar cells jumps to 22.1 percent
Aalto University’s researchers improved their previous record by over 3 absolute percents in cooperation with Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya AALTO UNIVERSITY: The researchers from Finland’s Aalto...
View ArticleLightning speed computing now a million times faster thanks to researchers at...
Utah Engineers take a step toward Silicon Phototonic Computing at Speeds Millions of Times Faster than Current Machines University of Utah engineers have taken a step forward in creating the next...
View Article‘No-ink’ color printing with nanomaterials
Missouri University of Science and Technology – Researchers are giving new meaning to the term “read the fine print” with their demonstration of a color printing process using nanomaterials. In this...
View ArticleTin follows zinc: Stretchable ceramics made by flame technology
Scientists have successfully been able to transfer the experience from furnace to laboratory while synthesizing nanoscale materials using simple and highly efficient flame technology. This “baking” of...
View ArticleSoft core, hard shell — the latest in nanotechnology
HELMHOLTZ ZENTRUM MÜNCHEN – GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH Nanoparticles are the smallest particles capable of reaching virtually all parts of the body. Researchers use various...
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