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Rice researchers make ultrasensitive conductivity measurements
Jun 16, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers at Rice University have discovered a new way to make ultrasensitive conductivity measurements at optical frequencies on high-speed nanoscale electro...
MIPT physicists develop ultrasensitive nanomechanical biosensor
Jun 16, 2015 (SPX)
Two young researchers working at the MIPT Laboratory of Nanooptics and Plasmonics, Dmitry Fedyanin and Yury Stebunov, have developed an ultracompact highly sens...
Nanostructures under stress make teeth crack resistant
Jun 16, 2015 (SPX)
Human teeth have to serve for a lifetime, despite being subjected to huge forces. But the high failure resistance of dentin in teeth is not fully understood. An...
Moving sector walls on the nano scale
Jun 16, 2015 (SPX)
Most magnetic materials have a structure that is somewhat more complicated than a commercially available domestic magnet: they not only have a north and south p...
Unlocking nanofibers' potential
Jun 15, 2015 (SPX)
Nanofibers - polymer filaments only a couple of hundred nanometers in diameter - have a huge range of potential applications, from solar cells to water filtrati...
Scientists observe photographic exposure live at the nanoscale
Jun 11, 2015 (SPX)
Photoinduced chemical reactions are responsible for many fundamental processes and technologies, from energy conversion in nature to micro fabrication by photo-...
Measuring the mass of molecules on the nano-scale
Jun 05, 2015 (SPX)
Working with a device that slightly resembles a microscopically tiny tuning fork, researchers at the University of Tsukuba in Japan have recently developed coup...
Novel X-ray lens sharpens view into the nano world
Jun 04, 2015 (SPX)
A team led by DESY scientists has designed, fabricated and successfully tested a novel X-ray lens that produces sharper and brighter images of the nano world. T...
Engineering phase changes in nanoparticle arrays
May 29, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have just taken a big step toward the goal of engineering dynamic nanomaterials who...
An efficient method of signal transmission from nanocomponents
May 29, 2015 (SPX)
Physicists have developed an innovative method that could enable the efficient use of nanocomponents in electronic circuits. To achieve this, they have develope...
DNA double helix does double duty assembling nanoparticle arrays
May 29, 2015 (SPX)
In a new twist on the use of DNA in nanoscale construction, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators...
Nano-policing pollution
May 21, 2015 (SPX)
Pollutants emitted by factories and car exhausts affect humans who breathe in these harmful gases and also aggravate climate change up in the atmosphere. Being ...
Random nanowire configurations boost conductivity
May 21, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers at Lehigh University have identified for the first time that a performance gain in the electrical conductivity of random metal nanowire networks can...
Rice scientists use light to probe acoustic tuning in gold nanodisks
May 14, 2015 (SPX)
In a study that could open doors for new applications of photonics from molecular sensing to wireless communications, Rice University scientists have discovered...
'Microcombing' creates stronger, more conductive carbon nanotube films
May 08, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers from North Carolina State University and China's Suzhou Institute of Nano-Science and Nano-Biotics have developed an inexpensive technique called "m...
New technique for exploring structural dynamics of nanoworld
May 01, 2015 (SPX)
A new technique for visualizing the rapidly changing electronic structures of atomic-scale materials as they twist, tumble and traipse across the nanoworld is t...
Chemists strike nano-gold with 4 new atomic structures
May 01, 2015 (SPX)
Arranging gold, atomic staples and electron volts, chemists have drafted new nanoscale blueprints for low-energy structure capable of housing pharmaceuticals an...
Happily ever after: Scientists arrange protein-nanoparticle marriage
Apr 28, 2015 (SPX)
Fastening protein-based medical treatments to nanoparticles isn't easy. With arduous chemistry, scientists can do it. But like a doomed marriage, the fragile bi...
Nanotubes with 2 walls have singular qualities
Apr 27, 2015 (SPX)
Rice University researchers have determined that two walls are better than one when turning carbon nanotubes into materials like strong, conductive fibers or tr...
Chemists create tiny gold nanoparticles that reflect nature's patterns
Apr 21, 2015 (SPX)
Our world is full of patterns, from the twist of a DNA molecule to the spiral of the Milky Way. New research from Carnegie Mellon chemists has revealed that tin...
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