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Optical nanoantennas set the stage for a NEMS lab-on-a-chip revolution
Feb 25, 2015 (SPX)
Newly developed tiny antennas, likened to spotlights on the nanoscale, offer the potential to measure food safety, identify pollutants in the air and even quick...
Monitoring the deformation of carbon nanocoils under axial loading
Feb 19, 2015 (SPX)
Carbon nanocoils (CNCs) composed of helical shaped carbon nanofibers have potential applications including mechanical springs and nano-solenoids. There are some...
Bacterial armor holds clues for self-assembling nanostructures
Feb 19, 2015 (SPX)
Imagine thousands of copies of a single protein organizing into a coat of chainmail armor that protects the wearer from harsh and ever-changing environmental co...
Novel solid-state nanomaterial platform enables terahertz photonics
Feb 19, 2015 (SPX)
Compact, sensitive and fast nanodetectors are considered to be somewhat of a "Holy Grail" sought by many researchers around the world. And now a team of scienti...
Nanotechnology: Better measurements of single molecule circuits
Feb 19, 2015 (SPX)
It's nearly 50 years since Gordon Moore predicted that the density of transistors on an integrated circuit would double every two years. "Moore's Law" has turne...
Rapid extension of nanographene sheets from hydrocarbons
Feb 19, 2015 (SPX)
Commercially available hydrocarbons were used as templates to synthesize uniform nanographene sheets using a series of sheet extending agents and a new transiti...
New understanding of electron behavior at tips of carbon nanocones could help provide candidates
Feb 11, 2015 (SPX)
One of the ways of improving electrons manipulation is though better control over one of their inner characteristics, called spin. This approach is the object o...
Nanotubes self-organize and wiggle: Evolution of a nonequilibrium system demonstrates MEPP
Feb 11, 2015 (SPX)
The second law of thermodynamics tells us that all systems evolve toward a state of maximum entropy, wherein all energy is dissipated as heat, and no available ...
Turing also present at the nanoscale
Feb 11, 2015 (SPX)
In the world of single atoms and molecules governed by chaotic fluctuations, is the spontaneous formation of Turing patterns possible - the same ones that are r...
A nanoscale solution to the big problem of overheating in microelectronic devices
Feb 11, 2015 (SPX)
Anyone who has ever toasted the top of their legs with their laptop or broiled their ear on a cell phone knows that microelectronic devices can give off a lot o...
X-ray pulses uncover free nanoparticles for the first time in 3-D
Feb 11, 2015 (SPX)
For the first time, a German-American research team has determined the three-dimensional shape of free-flying silver nanoparticles, using DESY's X-ray laser FLA...
Dance of the nanovortices
Feb 03, 2015 (SPX)
"With the help of magnetic fields, we can selectively create the magnetic nanovortices, then give them a shove so that they are deflected out of their equilibri...
Worms lead way to test nanoparticle toxicity
Feb 03, 2015 (SPX)
The lowly roundworm is the star of an ambitious Rice University project to measure the toxicity of nanoparticles. The low-cost, high-throughput study by Rice sc...
Engineers uses disorder to control light on a nanoscale
Feb 03, 2015 (SPX)
A breakthrough by a team of researchers from UCLA, Columbia University and other institutions could lead to the more precise transfer of information in computer...
Holes in valence bands of nanodiamonds discovered
Jan 29, 2015 (SPX)
But how are the electronic properties of nanodiamonds deposited on a solid-state substrate different from those displayed by nanodiamonds in aqueous solutions? ...
Nanoscale mirrored cavities amplify, connect quantum memories
Jan 29, 2015 (SPX)
The idea of computing systems based on controlling atomic spins just got a boost from new research performed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) ...
ORNL researchers tune friction in ionic solids at the nanoscale
Jan 28, 2015 (SPX)
Friction impacts motion, hence the need to control friction forces. Currently, this is accomplished by mechanistic means or lubrication, but experiments conduct...
Silver nanowires demonstrate unexpected self-healing mechanism
Jan 28, 2015 (SPX)
With its high electrical conductivity and optical transparency, indium tin oxide is one of the most widely used materials for touchscreens, plasma displays, and...
Making functionalized nanocarbons
Jan 28, 2015 (SPX)
A team of chemists at Nagoya University has synthesized novel transition metal-complexed cycloparaphenylenes (CPPs) that enable selective monofunctionalization ...
Nanoshuttle wear and tear: It's the mileage, not the age
Jan 28, 2015 (SPX)
As nanomachine design rapidly advances, researchers are moving from wondering if the nanomachine works to how long it will work. This is an especially important...
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