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MIT mathematicians identify limits to heat flow at the nanoscale
Nov 30, 2015 (SPX)
How much heat can two bodies exchange without touching? For over a century, scientists have been able to answer this question for virtually any pair of objects ...
Navy researchers recruit luminescent nanoparticles to image brain function
Nov 26, 2015 (SPX)
Research biologists, chemists and theoreticians at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), are on pace to develop the next generation of functional materials ...
Light wave technique an advance for optical research
Nov 20, 2015 (SPX)
RMIT University researchers have developed artificial microflowers that self-assemble in water and mimic the natural blooming process, an important step for adv...
Nanostructuring technology can simultaneously control heat and electricity
Nov 18, 2015 (SPX)
The improvement of thermoelectric materials that can directly convert wasted heat to electric energy may lead to one of the solutions for energy issues. For hig...
Rice makes light-driven nanosubmarine
Nov 17, 2015 (SPX)
Though they're not quite ready for boarding a la "Fantastic Voyage," nanoscale submarines created at Rice University are proving themselves seaworthy. Each of t...
Novel 'crumpling' of hybrid nanostructures increases SERS sensitivity
Nov 15, 2015 (SPX)
By "crumpling" to increase the surface area of graphene-gold nanostructures, researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have improved the s...
Researchers build nanoscale autonomous walking machine from DNA
Nov 09, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a nanoscale machine made of DNA that can randomly walk in any direction across bumpy surfaces. F...
New way of computing with interaction-dependent nanomagnets
Nov 06, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers from the University of South Florida College of Engineering have proposed a new form of computing that uses circular nanomagnets to solve quadratic ...
Finally a promising natural nanomaterial
Oct 28, 2015 (SPX)
Yuri Lvov and Rawil Fakhrullin of Bionanotechnology Lab, Kazan Federal University, in cooperation with Wencai Wang and Liqun Zhang of State Key Laboratory of Or...
Umbrella-shaped diamond nanostructures make efficient photon collectors
Oct 22, 2015 (SPX)
Standard umbrellas come out when the sky turns dark, but in the nanoworld, umbrella shapes may be the next creative way to enhance light emission. Inspired by r...
Anti-clumping strategy for nanoparticles
Oct 20, 2015 (SPX)
Nanoparticles are ubiquitous in industrial applications ranging from drug delivery and biomedical diagnostics to developing hydrophobic surfaces, lubricant addi...
Are cars nanotube factories on wheels
Oct 20, 2015 (SPX)
Cars appear to produce carbon nanotubes, and some of the evidence has been found in human lungs. Rice University scientists working with colleagues in France ha...
New design rule brings nature-inspired nanostructures one step closer
Oct 08, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists aspire to build nanostructures that mimic the complexity and function of nature's proteins, but are made of durable and synthetic materials. These mi...
Developing a nanoscale 'clutch'
Oct 07, 2015 (SPX)
A model microscopic system to demonstrate the transmission of torque in the presence of thermal fluctuations - necessary for the creation of a tiny 'clutch' ope...
Molecular nanoribbons as electronic highways
Oct 07, 2015 (SPX)
Physicists at Umea University have, together with researchers at UC Berkeley, USA, developed a method to synthesise a unique and novel type of material which re...
Nanocellulose materials by design
Oct 06, 2015 (SPX)
Theoretically, nanocellulose could be the next hot supermaterial. A class of biological materials found within numerous natural systems, most notably trees, cel...
Smaller is better for nanotube analysis
Oct 02, 2015 (SPX)
In a great example of "less is more," Rice University scientists have developed a powerful method to analyze carbon nanotubes in solution. The researchers' vari...
Pirouetting in the spotlight
Oct 02, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have developed a new class of molecular motors that rotate unidirectionally at speeds of up to 1...
Standards for triboelectric nanogenerators could facilitate comparisons
Oct 01, 2015 (SPX)
More than 60 research groups worldwide are now developing variations of the triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG), which converts ambient mechanical energy into el...
Nanostructures for contactless control
Sep 25, 2015 (SPX)
Chemists at Ludwig-Maximilians-Univeristaet (LMU) in Munich have fabricated a novel nanosheet-based photonic crystal that changes color in response to moisture....
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