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New acoustic technique reveals structural information in nanoscale materials
Dec 31, 2015 (SPX)
Understanding where and how phase transitions occur is critical to developing new generations of the materials used in high-performance batteries, sensors, ener...
Program seeks ability to assemble atom-sized pieces into practical products
Dec 31, 2015 (SPX)
DARPA recently launched its Atoms to Product (A2P) program, with the goal of developing technologies and processes to assemble nanometer-scale pieces-whose dime...
Nanodevices at one-hundredth the cost
Dec 24, 2015 (SPX)
Microelectromechanical systems - or MEMS - were a $12 billion business in 2014. But that market is dominated by just a handful of devices, such as the accelerom...
Researchers demonstrate tracking of individual catalyst nanoparticles
Dec 22, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont., have taken atomic-level images of individual nanoparticles during heating that could lead to improved fu...
Scientists blueprint tiny cellular 'nanomachine'
Dec 19, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists have drawn up molecular blueprints of a tiny cellular 'nanomachine', whose evolution is an extraordinary feat of nature, by using one of the brightes...
This article can be printed on a hair
Dec 17, 2015 (SPX)
A nanotechnology breakthrough from DTU revolutionizes laser printing technology, allowing you to print high-resolution data and colour images of unprecedented q...
Nanoscale one-way-street for light
Dec 16, 2015 (SPX)
If light is able to propagate from left to right, the opposite direction is usually allowed as well. A beam of light can normally be sent back to its point of o...
New industrial possibilities for nanoporous thin films
Dec 16, 2015 (SPX)
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are a new type of materials with nanoscale pores. Bioscience engineers from KU Leuven, Belgium, have developed an alternative me...
Microscope creates near-real-time videos of nanoscale processes
Dec 16, 2015 (SPX)
State-of-the-art atomic force microscopes (AFMs) are designed to capture images of structures as small as a fraction of a nanometer - a million times smaller th...
Heat radiates 10,000 times faster at the nanoscale
Dec 14, 2015 (SPX)
When heat travels between two objects that aren't touching, it flows differently at the smallest scales - distances on the order of the diameter of DNA, or 1/50...
Shaking the nanomaterials out
Dec 14, 2015 (SPX)
Purifying water and greening nanotechnology could be as simple as shaking a vial of water and oil. At least that's the case for a new method to clean contaminat...
Nanotube letters spell progress
Dec 12, 2015 (SPX)
Never mind the ABCs. Rice University scientists interested in nanotubes are studying their XYOs. Carbon nanotubes grown in a furnace aren't always straight. Som...
Using atoms to turn optical nanofiber guided light on and off
Dec 11, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers in the Light-Matter Interactions Unit led by Professor Sile Nic Chormaic at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIS...
New nanomanufacturing technique advances imaging, biosensing technology
Dec 11, 2015 (SPX)
More than a decade ago, theorists predicted the possibility of a nanolens--a chain of three nanoscale spheres that would focus incoming light into a spot much s...
Nanostructured metal coatings let the light through for electronic devices
Dec 11, 2015 (SPX)
Light and electricity dance a complicated tango in devices like LEDs, solar cells and sensors. A new anti-reflection coating developed by engineers at the Unive...
Measuring nanoscale features with fractions of light
Dec 07, 2015 (SPX)
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers are seeing the light, but in an altogether different way. And how they are doing it just might...
Nano-walkers take speedy leap forward with first rolling DNA-based motor
Dec 07, 2015 (SPX)
Physical chemists have devised a rolling DNA-based motor that's 1,000 times faster than any other synthetic DNA motor, giving it potential for real-world applic...
Whisper gallery modes in Silicon nanocones intensify luminescence
Dec 04, 2015 (SPX)
Silicon is a conventional material for computer chips and solar cells. However, even though the properties of silicon are well known, nanostructures still offer...
Electric fields remove nanoparticles from blood with ease
Dec 01, 2015 (SPX)
Engineers at the University of California, San Diego developed a new technology that uses an oscillating electric field to easily and quickly isolate drug-deliv...
Nanomagnets: Creating order out of chaos
Dec 01, 2015 (SPX)
Miniaturization is the magic word when it comes to nanomagnetic devices intended for use in new types of electronic components. Scientists from the Helmholtz-Ze...
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