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Researchers develop faster, precise silica coating process for quantum dot nanorods
Jul 13, 2016 (SPX)
Materials researchers at North Carolina State University have fine-tuned a technique that enables them to apply precisely controlled silica coatings to quantum ...
Achieving a breakthrough in the formation of beam size controllable X-ray nanobeams
Jul 13, 2016 (SPX)
A research team in Japan has now succeeded in developing high precision X-ray deformable mirrors that can be configured as necessary. They are the first to have...
Researchers harness DNA as the engine of super-efficient nanomachine
Jul 11, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers at McMaster University have established a way to harness DNA as the engine of a microscopic "machine" they can turn on to detect trace amounts of su...
'Nano scalpel' allows scientists to manipulate materials with nanometer precision
Jul 11, 2016 (UPI)
For German researchers, the new Focused Ion Beam microscope serves as both magnifier and milling machine. The so-called nano scalpel allows researchers to preci...
Tiniest imperfections make big impacts in nano-patterned materials
Jul 03, 2016 (SPX)
A research team at Clarkson University reports an interesting conclusion that could have major impacts on the future of nano-manufacturing. Their analysis for a...
DNA shaping up to be ideal framework for rationally designed nanostructures
Jun 19, 2016 (SPX)
A cube, an octahedron, a prism - these are among the polyhedral structures, or frames, made of DNA that scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Broo...
New 'ukidama' nanoparticle structure revealed
Jun 17, 2016 (SPX)
Sometimes it is the tiny things in the world that can make an incredible difference. One of these things is the nanoparticle. Nanoparticles may be small, but th...
Shaping atomically thin materials in suspended structures
Jun 15, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers at Tohoku University have realized wafer-scale and high yield synthesis of suspended graphene nanoribbons. The unique growth dynamic has been elucid...
Nanoparticles and bioremediation can decontaminate polluted soils
Jun 14, 2016 (SPX)
The Basque Institute of Agricultural Research and Development Neiker-Tecnalia is currently exploring a strategy to remedy soils contaminated by organic compound...
Scientists mix molecules with light in nanoscale 'hall of mirrors'
Jun 13, 2016 (UPI)
Researchers have mixed molecules with light at room temperature. It's the first time such a feat has been accomplished. Scientists did so by trapping a colored ...
Technique reveals atomic movements useful for next-generation devices
Jun 08, 2016 (SPX)
Life in the nano lane is fast and just got faster in terms of knowledge of fundamental mechanisms working at the nanoscale - where processes are driven by a dan...
Nanotubes' 'stuffing' as is
Jun 06, 2016 (SPX)
Marianna Kharlamova (the Lomonosov Moscow State University Department of Materials Science) examined different types of carbon nanotubes' "stuffing" and classif...
Nanocars taken for a rough ride
Jun 06, 2016 (SPX)
If you're driving a nanocar on the open road, things are bound to get sticky. Rice University researchers who developed the first nanocars and colleagues at Nor...
Dentin nanostructures - a super-natural phenomenon
Jun 03, 2016 (SPX)
Dentin is one of the most durable biological materials in the human body. Researchers from Charite - Universitatsmedizin Berlin were able to show that the reaso...
Top-down design brings new DNA structures to life
May 30, 2016 (SPX)
Among the valuable holdings in London's Wellcome Library is a rough pencil sketch made in 1953 by Francis Crick. The drawing is one of the first to show the dou...
The next generation of carbon monoxide nanosensors
May 29, 2016 (SPX)
The detection of carbon monoxide (CO) in the air is a vital issue, as CO is a poisonous gas and an environmental pollutant. CO typically derives from the incomp...
Physicists create first metamaterial with rewritable magnetic ordering
May 24, 2016 (SPX)
University of Notre Dame physicists and their collaborators have produced the first rewriteable artificial magnetic charge ice. The research, described in a pap...
Little ANTs: Researchers build the world's tiniest engine
May 05, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers have developed the world's tiniest engine - just a few billionths of a metre in size - which uses light to power itself. The nanoscale engine, devel...
New movies from the microcosmos
Apr 29, 2016 (SPX)
With the aid of terahertz radiation, Munich physicists have developed a method for generating and controlling ultrashort electron pulses. With further improveme...
Rice introduces Teslaphoresis to help assemble Nanotubes
Apr 22, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists at Rice University have discovered that the strong force field emitted by a Tesla coil causes carbon nanotubes to self-assemble into long wires, a ph...
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