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June 11, 2014

Nano world: Where towers construct themselves
Vienna, Austria (SPX) Jun 03, 2014
Imagine a tower builds itself into the desired structure only by choosing the appropriate bricks. Absurd - and however, in the nano world this is reality: There an unordered crowd of components can initiate the formation of an ordered structure - a process known as self-assembly. The physicists Christos Likos (University of Vienna), Emanuela Bianchi and Gerhard Kahl (both Vienna University of Technology) investigate how they can control the ordering of such self-assembling structures and found out ... read more

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Seeing how a lithium-ion battery works New observations by researchers at MIT have revealed the inner workings of a type of electrode widely used in lithium-ion batteries. The new findings explain the unexpectedly high power and long cyc ... more		Opening a wide window on the nano-world of surface catalysis Surface catalysts are notoriously difficult to study mechanistically, but scientists at the University of South Carolina and Rice University have shown how to get real-time reaction information from ... more		Targeting tumors using silver nanoparticles Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have designed a nanoparticle that has a couple of unique - and important - properties. Spherical in shape and silver in composition, it is encased in a shell coated wi ... more
				Breakthrough in energy storage: Electrical cables that can store energy Imagine being able to carry all the juice you needed to power your MP3 player, smartphone and electric car in the fabric of your jacket? Sounds like science fiction, but it may become a reality than ... more		Unexpected water explains surface chemistry of nanocrystals Danylo Zherebetskyy and his colleagues at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) found unexpected traces of water in semiconducting nanocrystals. The wa ... more

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Scientists unveil first method for controlling the growth of metal crystals Researchers have announced the first ever method for controlling the growth of metal-crystals from single atoms. Published in the journal Nature Communications and developed at the University of War ... more		DNA nanotechnology places enzyme catalysis within an arm's length Using molecules of DNA like an architectural scaffold, Arizona State University scientists, in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Michigan, have developed a 3-D artificial enzyme cas ... more		OPERA satellite data sharpens US crop and water management Alen Space begins SATMAR satellite validation over Bay of Algeciras Deep Arctic gas hydrate mounds host ultra deep cold seep ecosystem		NIST studies why quantum dots suffer from 'fluorescence intermittency' Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), working in collaboration with the Naval Research Laboratory, have found that a particular species of quantum dots that weren ... more
				Bending helps to control nanomaterials A new remedy has been found to tackle the difficulty of controlling layered nanomaterials. Control can be improved by simply bending the material. The mechanism was observed by Academy Researc ... more		Engineers build world's smallest, fastest nanomotor Researchers at the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have built the smallest, fastest and longest-running tiny synthetic motor to date. The team's nanomotor is an i ... more

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Rounding up the BCATs on the ISS Although it may not be herding cats exactly, all the NASA-supported Binary Colloidal Alloy Tests (BCAT) studies have ended on the International Space Station, and the experimental samples are being ... more		Nanoscale heat flow predictions Physicists are now designing novel materials with physical properties tailored to meet specific energy consumption needs. Before these so-called materials-by-design can be applied, it is essential t ... more		AI systems proposed to boost launch cadence reliability and traffic management China debuts Long March 12A reusable rocket in Jiuquan test flight Curiosity Blog, Sols 4750-4762: See You on the Other Side of the Sun		Organism that transmits added letters in DNA alphabet created Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have engineered a bacterium whose genetic material includes an added pair of DNA "letters," or bases, not found in nature. The cells of this uniqu ... more
Harnessing Magnetic Vortices for Making Nanoscale Antennas Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory are seeking ways to synchronize the magnetic spins in nanoscale devices to build tiny yet more powerful signal-generating ... more		New method for measuring the temperature of nanoscale objects discovered Temperature measurements in our daily life are typically performed by bringing a thermometer in contact with the object to be measured. However, measuring the temperature of nanoscale objects is a m ... more		Fluorescent hybrid material changes colour according to the direction of the light The UPV/EHU's Molecular Spectroscopy Group, in collaboration with the Institute of Catalysis and Petroleum Chemistry of the CSIC (Spanish National Research Council), has developed a highly fluoresce ... more		Economics = MC2 A portrait of the modern physics startup For much of the 20th century, many of the technological innovations that drove U.S. economic growth emerged from "idea factories" housed within large companies - research units like Bell Labs or Xe ... more

	Nanomaterial Outsmarts Ions Ions are an essential tool in chip manufacturing, but these electrically charged atoms can also be used to produce nano-sieves with homogeneously distributed pores. A particularly large number of el ... more		World's thinnest nanowires created by Vanderbilt grad student A Vanderbilt doctorate student has found a way to construct the world's thinnest nanowire - at just three atoms wide - using a finely focused beam of electrons. ... more

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