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![]() Vienna, Austria (SPX) Nov 07, 2012 Nowadays, electron microscopes are an essential tool, especially in the field of materials science. At TU Vienna, electron beams are being created that possess an inner rotation, similarly to a tornado. These "vortex beams" cannot only be used to display objects, but to investigate material-specific properties - with precision on a nanometer scale. A new breakthrough in research now allows scientists to produce much more intense vortex beams than ever before. In a tornado, the individual air parti ... read more ![]() |
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![]() Low-resistance connections facilitate multi-walled carbon nanotubes for interconnects Using a new method for precisely controlling the deposition of carbon, researchers have demonstrated a technique for connecting multi-walled carbon nanotubes to the metallic pads of integrated circu ... more | ![]() |
![]() New discovery shows promise in future speed of synthesizing high-demand nanomaterials A new discovery by University of Oklahoma and North Carolina State University researchers shows a breakthrough in speeding up the process for synthesizing transition metal oxide nanostructures. What ... more | ![]() |
![]() Graphene Mini-Lab A team of physicists from Europe and South Africa showed that electrons moving randomly in graphene can mimic the dynamics of particles such as cosmic rays, despite travelling at a fraction of their ... more | ![]() |
Amazon takes on iPad with new Kindle Fire tablet 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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![]() Virgin Group and Rosnano announce joint investment fund Richard Branson's Virgin Group and Virgin Green Fund on Wednesday announced plans to form a $200 million emerging markets fund with Russia's Rosnano Capital to invest in innovations and green technologies. ... more | ![]() |
![]() Strengthening fragile forests of carbon nanotubes for new MEMS applications Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are incredibly tiny devices, often built on the scale of millionths of a meter. Conventional MEMS structures tend to be made out of silicon-based materials fami ... more | ![]() |
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![]() High-pressure science gets super-sized The study of materials at extreme conditions took a giant leap forward with the discovery of a way to generate super high pressures without using shock waves whose accompanying heat turns solids to ... more | ![]() |
![]() Tiny pores in graphene could give rise to membranes Much has been made of graphene's exceptional qualities, from its ability to conduct heat and electricity better than any other material to its unparalleled strength: Worked into a composite material ... more | ![]() |
![]() A new take on the Midas touch - changing the colour of gold Red gold, green gold - a ground-breaking initiative has found a way of changing the colour of the world's most iconic precious metal. A University of Southampton team have discovered that by embossi ... more | ![]() |
![]() Manufacturing complex 3D metallic structures at nanoscale made possible The fabrication of many objects, machines, and devices around us rely on the controlled deformation of metals by industrial processes such as bending, shearing, and stamping. Is this technology tran ... more |
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![]() A novel scheme to enhance local electric fields around metal nanostructures Enhanced local electric fields are predominant in nonlinear optical properties, particularly in surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), which is a sensitive technique used for the detection of tra ... more | ![]() |
![]() University of Florida chemists pioneer new technique for nanostructure assembly A team of researchers from the University of Florida department of chemistry has developed a new technique for growing new materials from nanorods. Materials with enhanced properties engineere ... more | ![]() |
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![]() NASA must reinvest in nanotechnology research, according to new Rice University paper The United States may lose its leadership role in space to other countries unless it makes research and development funding and processes - especially in nanotechnology - a renewed and urgent priori ... more | ![]() |
![]() New Techniques Stretch Carbon Nanotubes, Make Stronger Composites Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed new techniques for stretching carbon nanotubes (CNT) and using them to create carbon composites that can be used as stronger, lighter ... more | ![]() |
![]() New Way to Prevent Cracking in Nanoparticle Films Making uniform coatings is a common engineering challenge, and, when working at the nanoscale, even the tiniest cracks or defects can be a big problem. New research from University of Pennsylvania e ... more | ![]() |
![]() Making a layer cake with atomic precision In a report published in Nature Physics, a group led Dr Leonid Ponomarenko and Nobel prize-winner Professor Andre Geim has assembled individual atomic layers on top of each other in a desired sequen ... more |
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