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UK nanodevice builds electricity from tiny piecesLondon, UK (SPX) Jul 16, 2012 A team of scientists at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and University of Cambridge has made a significant advance in using nano-devices to create accurate electrical currents. Electrical current is composed of billions and billions of tiny particles called electrons. NPL scientists have developed an electron pump - a nano-device - which picks these electrons up one at a time and moves them across a barrier, creating a very well-defined electrical current. The device drives electrical curre ... read more |
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 Unprecedented subatomic details of exotic ferroelectric nanomaterials As scientists learn to manipulate little-understood nanoscale materials, they are laying the foundation for a future of more compact, efficient, and innovative devices. In research to be publi ... more | .. |
 Tiny bubbles snap carbon nanotubes like twigs What's 100 times stronger than steel, weighs one-sixth as much and can be snapped like a twig by a tiny air bubble? The answer is a carbon nanotube - and a new study by Rice University scientists de ... more | .. |
 Ferroelectricity on the Nanoscale Promising news for those who relish the prospects of a one-inch chip storing multiple terabytes of data, some clarity has been brought to the here-to-fore confusing physics of ferroelectric nanomate ... more | .. |
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  Better surfaces could help dissipate heat Heat transfer in everything from computer chips to powerplants could be improved through new analysis of surface textures. Cooling systems that use a liquid that changes phase - such as water boilin ... more | .. |
 Nanodiamonds cut through dirt to bring back 'bling' to low temperature laundry Nanodiamonds, pieces of carbon less than ten-thousandths the diameter of a human hair, have been found to help loosen crystallized fat from surfaces in a project led by research chemists at the Univ ... more | .. |
 Research team develops world's most powerful nanoscale microwave oscillators A team of UCLA researchers has created the most powerful high-performance nanoscale microwave oscillators in the world, a development that could lead to cheaper, more energy-efficient mobile communi ... more | .. |
 Researchers test carbon nanotube-based ultra-low voltage integrated circuits A team of researchers from Peking University in Beijing, China, and Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, has demonstrated that carbon nanotube-based integrated circuits can work under a supply ... more |
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 Researchers tune the strain in graphene drumheads to create quantum dots Tightening or relaxing the tension on a drumhead will change the way the drum sounds. The same goes for drumheads made from graphene, only instead of changing the sound, stretching graphene has a pr ... more | .. |
 Graphene? From any lab! Considered by many as the most promising material of the future, graphene still remains an expensive and hard-to-fabricate substance. Researchers from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Poli ... more | .. |
 Taming light with graphene Spanish research groups achieve first ever visualizations of light guided with nanometric precision on graphene (a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon atoms). This visualization proves what theoretical p ... more | .. |
 Researchers Find Gold Nanoparticles Capable of 'Unzipping' DNA New research from North Carolina State University finds that gold nanoparticles with a slight positive charge work collectively to unravel DNA's double helix. This finding has ramifications for gene ... more |
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 Graphene is a tunable plasmonic medium With a beam of infrared light, scientists have sent ripples of electrons along the surface of graphene and demonstrated that they can control the length and height of these oscillations, called plas ... more | .. |
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 From pomegranate peel to nanoparticles Food waste is a growing problem in many parts of the world, but discarded fruit peel, in the case of pomegranates, could be put to good use in the burgeoning field of nanotechnology according to res ... more |
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 In nanotube growth, errors are not an option At the right temperature, with the right catalyst, there's no reason a perfect single-walled carbon nanotube 50,000 times thinner than a human hair can't be grown a meter long. That calculatio ... more | .. |
 Physicists use ultrafast lasers to create first tabletop X-ray device An international research team led by the University of Colorado Boulder has generated the first laser-like beams of X-rays from a tabletop device, paving the way for major advances in many fields i ... more | .. |
 Study Improves Understanding of Surface Molecules in Controlling Size of Gold Nanoparticles North Carolina State University researchers have shown that the "bulkiness" of molecules commonly used in the creation of gold nanoparticles actually dictates the size of the nanoparticles - with la ... more | .. |
 Syracuse University researchers use nanotechnology to harness the power of fireflies What do fireflies, nanorods, and Christmas lights have in common? Someday, consumers may be able to purchase multicolor strings of light that don't need electricity or batteries to glow. Scientists ... more |
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 Switchable nano magnets Using individual molecules instead of electronic or magnetic memory cells would revolutionise data storage technology, as molecular memories could be thousand-fold smaller. Scientists of Kiel Univer ... more | .. |
Stanford engineers perfecting carbon nanotubes for highly energy-efficient computing Energy efficiency is the most significant challenge standing in the way of continued miniaturization of electronic systems, and miniaturization is the principal driver of the semiconductor industry. ... more | .. |
  Ancient effect harnessed to produce electricity from waste heat A phenomenon first observed by an ancient Greek philosopher 2,300 years ago has become the basis for a new device designed to harvest the enormous amounts of energy wasted as heat each year to produ ... more | .. |
 Researchers watch tiny living machines self-assemble Enabling bioengineers to design new molecular machines for nanotechnology applications is one of the possible outcomes of a study by University of Montreal researchers that was published in Nature S ... more |
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 'Nanocable' could be big boon for energy storage Thanks to a little serendipity, researchers at Rice University have created a tiny coaxial cable that is about a thousand times smaller than a human hair and has higher capacitance than previously r ... more | .. |
 Self-assembling nanocubes for next generation antennas and lenses Researchers at the University of California, San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering have developed a technique that enables metallic nanocrystals to self-assemble into larger, complex materials for ... more | .. |
 Researchers love triangles A research team at Case Western Reserve University has found that gold catalysts shaped in the form of a cube, triangle, or other higher order structures grow nanowires about twice as fast and twice ... more | .. |
 Coatings with nanoparticles that interact with sunlight and eliminate contaminants are developed Researchers of the UPNA-Public University of Navarre have developed a type of coating for construction materials. It is based on nanoparticles that interact with sunlight and trigger a chemical reac ... more |
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  Robotic jellyfish could one day patrol oceans, clean oil spills, and detect pollutants Virginia Tech College of Engineering researchers are working on a multi-university, nationwide project for the U.S. Navy that one day will put life-like autonomous robot jellyfish in waters around t ... more | .. |
 Wyss Institute develops nanodevice manufacturing strategy using DNA 'building blocks' Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have developed a method for building complex nanostructures out of short synthetic strands of DNA. Calle ... more | .. |
 Newly modified nanoparticle opens window on future gene editing technologies The scientific and technological literature is abuzz with nanotechnology and its manufacturing and medical applications. But it is in an area with a less glitzy aura-plant sciences-where nanotechnol ... more | .. |
 First direct observation of oriented attachment in nanocrystal growth Through biomineralization, nature is able to produce such engineering marvels as mother of pearl, or nacre, the inner lining of abalone shells renowned for both its iridescent beauty and amazing tou ... more |
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