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Berkeley Lab scientists generate electricity from virusesBerkeley CA (SPX) May 16, 2012 Imagine charging your phone as you walk, thanks to a paper-thin generator embedded in the sole of your shoe. This futuristic scenario is now a little closer to reality. Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a way to generate power using harmless viruses that convert mechanical energy into electricity. The scientists tested their approach by creating a generator that produces enough current to operate a small liquid-cryst ... read more |
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  Light touch keeps a grip on delicate nanoparticles Using a refined technique for trapping and manipulating nanoparticles, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have extended the trapped particles' useful life more ... more | .. |
 Next-Generation Nanoelectronics: A Decade of Progress, Coming Advances Traditional silicon-based integrated circuits are found in many applications, from large data servers to cars to cell phones. Their widespread integration is due in part to the semiconductor industr ... more | .. |
 New technique uses electrons to map nanoparticle atomic structures With dimensions measuring billionths of a meter, nanoparticles are way too small to see with the naked eye. Yet it is becoming possible for today's scientists not only to see them, but also to look ... more | .. |
 Hong Kong to restrict foreign homebuyers from 2013 US judge OKs partial settlement in e-book case Nordic-Baltic states seek more cooperation Outside View: Jobs outlook grim Empire-style computers? Frenchman takes PCs to lap of luxury Google-Microsoft field smartphones to take on iPhone 5 EU businesses urge China's new leaders to speed reforms |
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  Novel radiation surveillance technology could help thwart nuclear terrorism Among terrorism scenarios that raise the most concern are attacks involving nuclear devices or materials. For that reason, technology that can effectively detect smuggled radioactive materials is co ... more | .. |
 Single nanomaterial yields many laser colors Red, green, and blue lasers have become small and cheap enough to find their way into products ranging from BluRay DVD players to fancy pens, but each color is made with different semiconductor mate ... more | .. |
 Nanotech gets boost from nanowire decorations Like a lead actress on the red carpet, nanowires-those superstars of nanotechnology-can be enhanced by a little jewelry, too. Not the diamonds and pearls variety, but the sort formed of sinuous chai ... more | .. |
 Creating nano-structures from the bottom up Microscopic particles are being coaxed by Duke University engineers to assemble themselves into larger crystalline structures by the use of varying concentrations of microscopic particles and magnet ... more |
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Indonesia food plan risks 'world's largest' deforestation
Tentative tree planting 'decades overdue' in sweltering Athens
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 Notre Dame paper examines nanotechnology-related safety and ethics problem A recent paper by Kathleen Eggleson, a research scientist in the Center for Nano Science and Technology (NDnano) at the University of Notre Dame, provides an example of a nanotechnology-related safe ... more | .. |
  With new design, bulk semiconductor proves it can take the heat The intense interest in harvesting energy from heat sources has led to a renewed push to discover materials that can more efficiently convert heat into electricity. Some researchers are finding thos ... more | .. |
 DNA origami puts a smart lid on solid-state nanopore sensors The latest advance in solid-state nanopore sensors - devices that are made with standard tools of the semiconductor industry yet can offer single-molecule sensitivity for label-free protein screenin ... more | .. |
 ORNL microscopy yields first proof of ferroelectricity in simplest amino acid The boundary between electronics and biology is blurring with the first detection by researchers at Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory of ferroelectric properties in an amino acid ... more |
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 First Atomic-Scale Real-Time Movies of Platinum Nanocrystal Growth in Liquids They won't be coming soon to a multiplex near you, but movies showing the growth of platinum nanocrystals at the atomic-scale in real-time have blockbuster potential. A team of scientists with the L ... more | .. |
 Nanodot-based memory sets new world speed record A team of researchers from Taiwan and the University of California, Berkeley, has harnessed nanodots to create a new electronic memory technology that can write and erase data 10-100 times faster th ... more | .. |
 Nanocrystal-coated fibers might reduce wasted energy Researchers are developing a technique that uses nanotechnology to harvest energy from hot pipes or engine components to potentially recover energy wasted in factories, power plants and cars. "The u ... more | .. |
  Nanosponges soak up oil again and again The researchers, who collaborated with peers in labs around the nation and in Spain, Belgium and Japan, revealed their discovery in Nature's online open-access journal Scientific Reports. Lead ... more |
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Where are all the aliens?: Fermi's Paradox explained
Curiosity rover uncovers carbon cycle clues in Martian crater
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  Lockheed Martin Completes Assembly of Near Infrared Camera for NASA's JWST Lockheed Martin under a contract from the University of Arizona (U of A), has completed assembly of the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) Instrument Modules. NIRCam is the prime near-infrared imaging in ... more | .. |
 High-res atomic imaging of specimens in liquid by TEM using graphene liquid cell The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) announced that a research team from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering has developed a technology that enables scienti ... more | .. |
 Carbon nanotubes can double growth of cell cultures important in industry A dose of carbon nanotubes more than doubles the growth rate of plant cell cultures - workhorses in the production of everything from lifesaving medications to sweeteners to dyes and perfumes - rese ... more | .. |
 Nanoscale magnetic media diagnostics by rippling spin waves Memory devices based on magnetism are one of the core technologies of the computing industry, and engineers are working to develop new forms of magnetic memory that are faster, smaller, and more ene ... more |
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Nanostarfruits are pure gold for research They look like fruit, and indeed the nanoscale stars of new research at Rice University have tasty implications for medical imaging and chemical sensing. Starfruit-shaped gold nanorods synthesized ... more | .. |
  Video Reveals Wave Character of Particles Quantum theory describes the world of atoms very precisely. Still, it defies our macroscopic conception of everyday's world due to its many anti-intuitive predictions. The wave-particle dualism prob ... more | .. |
 When ions get closer Nowadays, ever smaller and more powerful computer chips are in demand. RUB physicists have discovered a new physical attraction that accelerates this progress. Prof. Dr. Padma Kant Shukla and Dr. Be ... more | .. |
 Diatom biosensor could shine light on future nanomaterials A glow coming from the glassy shell of microscopic marine algae called diatoms could someday help us detect chemicals and other substances in water samples. And the fact that this diatom can glow in ... more |
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Ambitious cross-continental initiative targets breakthroughs in AI space and cyber tech
HRL and Boeing advance quantum satellite communications milestone
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 'Buckliball' opens new avenue in design of foldable engineering structures Motivated by the desire to determine the simplest 3-D structure that could take advantage of mechanical instability to collapse reversibly, a group of engineers at MIT and Harvard University were st ... more | .. |
 A shiny new tool for imaging biomolecules At the heart of the immune system that protects our bodies from disease and foreign invaders is a vast and complex communications network involving millions of cells, sending and receiving chemical ... more | .. |
 Simple, cheap way to mass-produce graphene nanosheets Mixing a little dry ice and a simple industrial process cheaply mass-produces high-quality graphene nanosheets, researchers in South Korea and Case Western Reserve University report. Graphene, ... more | .. |
 Single molecules in a quantum movie The quantum physics of massive particles has intrigued physicists for more than 80 years, since it predicts that even complex particles can exhibit wave-like behaviour - in conflict with our everyda ... more |
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 Quantum plasmons demonstrated in atomic-scale nanoparticles The physical phenomenon of plasmon resonances in small metal particles has been used for centuries. They are visible in the vibrant hues of the great stained-glass windows of the world. More recentl ... more | .. |
 New technique lets scientists peer within nanoparticles UCLA researchers are now able to peer deep within the world's tiniest structures to create three-dimensional images of individual atoms and their positions. Their research, published March 22 in the ... more | .. |
  Columbia Engineering and Penn researchers increase speed of single-molecule measurements As nanotechnology becomes ever more ubiquitous, researchers are using it to make medical diagnostics smaller, faster, and cheaper, in order to better diagnose diseases, learn more about inherited tr ... more | .. |
 Straintronics: Engineers create piezoelectric graphene In what became known as the 'Scotch tape technique," researchers first extracted graphene with a piece of adhesive in 2004. Graphene is a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb, hexago ... more |
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