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Sequence it ... and they will come

Rapid DNA sequencing may soon become a routine part of each individual’s medical record, providing enormous information previously sequestered in the human genome’s 3 billion nucleotide bases. This ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Novel method yields highly reactive, highly hydroxylated TiO2 surface

(PhysOrg.com) -- Build a surface of titanium and oxygen atoms arranged just so, coat with water, and add sunshine. What do you get? In theory, energy-rich hydrogen produced by photolysis—a process by ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Research team devises better method for mapping orbitals of molecules

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of physicists comprised of members from IBM Research in Switzerland and the University of Liverpool in the U.K. have figured out a way to improve on results obtained using a Scanning Tunneling Microscope ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

Embracing superficial imperfections

Chemists normally work rigorously to exclude impurities from their reactions. This is especially true for scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) experiments that can produce atomic-scale images of surfaces. Using ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jul 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

STM of individual grains in CVD-grown graphene

Users from Purdue University, working collaboratively with staff in the CNM Electronic & Magnetic Materials & Devices Group, studied CVD-grown graphene on polycrystalline copper foil for the first time at ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A molecule that switches on and off

A single molecule whose charge state and shape can be changed at will: the latest breakthrough at the CEMES should prove a key advantage in the race for miniaturization. In addition to controlling its charge ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 10, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Researchers put a new spin on atomic musical chairs

Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Naval Research Laboratory have developed a new way to introduce magnetic impurities in a semiconductor crystal by prodding it with ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Highlight: STM banopatterning on pristine Nb-doped SrTiO3 surfaces

Collaborative users from the Advanced Photon Source at the Argonne National Laboratory, working with the Electronic & Magnetic Materials & Devices Group, have found a controllable way to modify the surfaces ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

IBM Celebrates 20th Anniversary of Moving Atoms (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- On this day in 1989, IBM Fellow Don Eigler became the first person in history to move and control an individual atom. Shortly thereafter, on November 11 of that year, Eigler and his team ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

First STM spectroscopy of graphene flakes yields new surprises

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have performed the first scanning tunneling spectroscopy of ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 21, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (41) | comments 0

Briefs: STM delivers new wireless-phone chip set

A new multi-chip package designed for 3G and CDMA mobile phones and carrying 1 GB of Flash memory was unveiled Thursday by STMicroelectronics.

Technology /

created Feb 23, 2006 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

An incredibly sensitive Cornell STM probes the mystery of a high-temperature superconductor

With equipment so sensitive that it can locate clusters of electrons, Cornell University and University of Tokyo physicists have -- sort of -- explained puzzling behavior in a much-studied high-temperature ...

Physics /

created Aug 26, 2004 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New STM Microscope To Study Propeties of Electron Spin

University of Arkansas scientists seek to harness an electron's spin to create tiny machines with large memories. To do this, they have built a microscope that may allow them to be the first researchers to measure the properties ...

Nanotechnology /

created Jun 23, 2004 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists image the charge distribution within a single molecule for the first time

(PhysOrg.com) -- IBM scientists were able to measure for the first time how charge is distributed within a single molecule. This achievement will enable fundamental scientific insights into single-molecule ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Single-atom transistor is 'perfect'

In a remarkable feat of micro-engineering, UNSW physicists have created a working transistor consisting of a single atom placed precisely in a silicon crystal.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 19, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (44) | comments 24 | with audio podcast