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Nano-beaker offers insight into the condensation of atoms
Jan 23, 2015 (SPX)
An international team of physicists has succeeded in mapping the condensation of individual atoms, or rather their transition from a gaseous state to another st...
Carbon nanotube finding could boost battery life
Jan 15, 2015 (SPX)
University of Wisconsin-Madison materials engineers have made a significant leap toward creating higher-performance electronics with improved battery life -- an...
Revealing the inner workings of a molecular motor
Jan 13, 2015 (SPX)
In research published in the Journal of Cell Biology, scientists from the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan have made important steps toward understanding ...
New technology focuses diffuse light inside living tissue
Jan 06, 2015 (SPX)
Lihong Wang, PhD, continues to build on his groundbreaking technology that allows light deep inside living tissue during imaging and therapy. In Nature Communic...
Mysteries of 'molecular machines' revealed
Dec 24, 2014 (SPX)
Scientists are making it easier for pharmaceutical companies and researchers to see the detailed inner workings of molecular machines. 'Inside each cell in our ...
Dartmouth researchers create 'green' process to reduce molecular switching waste
Dec 23, 2014 (SPX)
Dartmouth researchers have found a solution using visible light to reduce waste produced in chemically activated molecular switches, opening the way for industr...
ORNL microscopy pencils patterns in polymers at the nanoscale
Dec 18, 2014 (SPX)
Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have used advanced microscopy to carve out nanoscale designs on the surface of a new clas...
Nanoscale resistors for quantum devices
Dec 15, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers from the London Centre for Nanotechnology have made new compact, high-value resistors for nanoscale quantum circuits. The resistors could speed the ...
Nanoshaping method points to future manufacturing technology
Dec 15, 2014 (SPX)
A new method that creates large-area patterns of three-dimensional nanoshapes from metal sheets represents a potential manufacturing system to inexpensively mas...
Green meets nano
Dec 15, 2014 (SPX)
Coffee, apple juice, and vitamin C: things that people ingest every day are experimental material for chemist Eva-Maria Felix. The doctoral student in the resea...
New technique allows low-cost creation of 3-D nanostructures
Dec 15, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new lithography technique that uses nanoscale spheres to create three-dimensional (3-D) struct...
Technique determines nanomaterials' chemical makeup and topography
Dec 15, 2014 (SPX)
By Angela Hardin A team of researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and Ohio University have devised a powerful technique th...
'Giant' charge density disturbances discovered in nanomaterials
Nov 28, 2014 (SPX)
In metals such as copper or aluminium, so-called conduction electrons are able to move around freely, in the same way as particles in a gas or a liquid. If, how...
LLNL team develops efficient method to produce nanoporous metals
Nov 28, 2014 (SPX)
Nanoporous metals - foam-like materials that have some degree of air vacuum in their structure - have a wide range of applications because of their superior qua...
Ultra-short X-ray pulses explore the nano world
Nov 25, 2014 (SPX)
Ultra-short and extremely strong X-ray flashes, as produced by free-electron lasers, are opening the door to a hitherto unknown world. Scientists are using thes...
Thin film produces new chemistry in 'nanoreactor'
Nov 24, 2014 (SPX)
Physicists at the University of Groningen led by Professor of Functional Nanomaterials Beatriz Noheda have discovered a new manganese compound that is produced ...
UO-industry collaboration points to improved nanomaterials
Nov 21, 2014 (SPX)
A potential path to identify imperfections and improve the quality of nanomaterials for use in next-generation solar cells has emerged from a collaboration of U...
Biochemists build largest synthetic molecular 'cage' ever
Nov 20, 2014 (SPX)
UCLA biochemists have created the largest-ever protein that self-assembles into a molecular "cage." The research could lead to synthetic vaccines that protect p...
Penn engineers efficiently 'mix' light at the nanoscale
Nov 17, 2014 (SPX)
The race to make computer components smaller and faster and use less power is pushing the limits of the properties of electrons in a material. Photonic systems ...
On-demand conductivity for graphene nanoribbons
Nov 11, 2014 (SPX)
Physicists have, for the first time, explored in detail the time evolution of the conductivity, as well as other quantum-level electron transport characteristic...
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