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Nanoscale switches promise faster, more versatile chip-scale devices
Aug 10, 2015 (SPX)
By combining complementary mindsets on the leading edges of electronic and radiofrequency device engineering, a pair of researchers in DARPA's Young Faculty Awa...
Sandcastles inspire new nanoparticle binding technique
Aug 07, 2015 (SPX)
If you want to form very flexible chains of nanoparticles in liquid in order to build tiny robots with flexible joints or make magnetically self-healing gels, y...
Transparent, conductive network of encapsulated silver nanowires
Aug 04, 2015 (SPX)
The electrodes for connections on the "sunny side" of a solar cell need to be not just electrically conductive, but transparent as well. As a result, electrodes...
Short wavelength plasmons observed in nanotubes
Jul 30, 2015 (SPX)
The term "plasmons" might sound like something from the soon-to-be-released new Star Wars movie, but the effects of plasmons have been known about for centuries...
Nanotechnology research leads to super-elastic conducting fibers
Jul 28, 2015 (SPX)
An international research team based at The University of Texas at Dallas has made electrically conducting fibers that can be reversibly stretched to over 14 ti...
Breakthrough in knowledge of how nanoparticles grow
Jul 28, 2015 (SPX)
A team of researchers from the University of Leicester and France's G2ELab-CNRS in Grenoble have for the first time observed the growth of free nanoparticles in...
A most singular nano-imaging technique
Jul 20, 2015 (SPX)
Just as proteins are one of the basic building blocks of biology, nanoparticles can serve as the basic building blocks for next generation materials. In keeping...
On the way to breaking the terahertz barrier for graphene nanoelectronics
Jul 20, 2015 (SPX)
A team of scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P) discovered that electrical conduction in graphene on the picosecond timescale - a ...
Plantations of nanorods on carpets of graphene capture the Sun's energy
Jul 16, 2015 (SPX)
The Sun can be a better chemist, thanks to zinc oxide nanorod arrays grown on a graphene substrate and "decorated" with dots of cadmium sulphide. In the presenc...
Chemotherapeutic coatings enhance tumor-frying nanoparticles
Jul 14, 2015 (SPX)
In a move akin to adding chemical weapons to a firebomb, researchers at Duke University have devised a method for making a promising nanoscale cancer treatment ...
Nanoscale light-emitting device has big profile
Jul 14, 2015 (SPX)
University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have created a nanoscale device that can emit light as powerfully as an object 10,000 times its size. It's an advance ...
Polymer mold makes perfect silicon nanostructures
Jul 14, 2015 (SPX)
Using molds to shape things is as old as humanity. In the Bronze Age, the copper-tin alloy was melted and cast into weapons in ceramic molds. Today, injection a...
Nanowires highly 'anelastic'
Jul 14, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers from Brown University and North Carolina State University have found that nanowires made of zinc oxide are highly anelastic, meaning they return to ...
Superslippery islands (but then they get stuck)
Jul 10, 2015 (SPX)
(Nano)islands that slide freely on a sea of copper, but when they become too large (and too dense) they end up getting stuck: that nicely sums up the system inv...
Ultra-thin, all-inorganic molecular nanowires successfully compounded
Jul 09, 2015 (SPX)
Nanowires are wired-shaped materials with diameters that are tens of nanometers or less. There are many types of nanowires, including semiconducting composite n...
New nanogenerator harvests power from rolling tires
Jul 01, 2015 (SPX)
A group of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers and a collaborator from China have developed a nanogenerator that harvests energy from a car's rolling tire...
Soft core, hard shell -- the latest in nanotechnology
Jun 28, 2015 (SPX)
Nanoparticles are the smallest particles capable of reaching virtually all parts of the body. Researchers use various approaches to test ways in which nanoparti...
Nanoparticles can be intrinsically left- and right-handed
Jun 22, 2015 (SPX)
A team of scientists from ITMO University and Trinity College Dublin published first experimental results showing that ordinary nanocrystals possess intrinsic c...
A new way to image surfaces on the nanoscale
Jun 22, 2015 (SPX)
A multi-institutional team of scientists has taken an important step in understanding where atoms are located on the surfaces of rough materials, information th...
Ultrafast heat conduction can manipulate nanoscale magnets
Jun 16, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have uncovered physical mechanisms allowing the manipulation of magnetic information with heat. Th...
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