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Chemistry in one dimension offers surprising result

Due to their unique properties single walled carbon nanotubes have been suggested as a promising material for electronics, optics and in other fields of materials science. When scientists from Umea University and Aalto University ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Development of a new method for the boron-doping of two dimensional carbon materials

Kyoto University researchers have developed a new method for the boron-doping of two dimensional carbon materials, which is expected to be a promising approach towards the development of highly efficient electron ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Nanorods made of fullerenes improve performance of polymer solar cells

The biggest obstacle to making use of solar energy has been the excessively high price of solar cells made of inorganic semiconductors. In contrast, solar cells based on semiconducting polymers are affordable, ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Pairing quantum dots with fullerenes for nanoscale photovoltaics

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a step toward engineering ever-smaller electronic devices, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have assembled nanoscale pairings of particles ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 10, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Nearly Hard as Steel: Aluminum with Fullerenes

Russian researchers with Siemens Corporate Technology (CT) are using special carbon nanoparticles to optimize materials. They are adding fullerenes -- soccer ball-shaped molecules comprising 60 carbon atoms ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 16, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (28) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Layered footballs: First two-dimensional organic metal made of fullerenes

(PhysOrg.com) -- Since their discovery in the mid 1980s, fullerenes have caused a sensation. The tiny hollow spheres made of 60 carbon atoms, constructed out of pentagons and hexagons like miniature soccer ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 09, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (19) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Remote-control closed system invented for inserting radio-active atoms inside fullerenes

Virginia Tech chemistry Professor Harry C. Dorn, Emory and Henry College chemistry Professor James Duchamp, and Panos Fatouros, professor and chair of the Division of Radiation Physics and Biology at the Virginia ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Synthesis with a template: Carbon-free fullerene analogue

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team led by Manfred Scheer at the University of Regensburg has now synthesized the first example of an inorganic, carbon-free C80 analogue.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 3

Carving at the nanoscale

Researchers at the Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology have successfully demonstrated a new method for producing a wide variety of complex hollow nanoparticles. The work, published this week in Science, applies well known ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Water, water everywhere: Polarization dramatically affects H2O structure revealed through molecular dynamics simulation

(PhysOrg.com) -- Water is essential to more than its myriad roles in biological, chemical, geological, and other physical processes. Having a precise description of water’s structure is critical to con ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 2 | with audio podcast feature

Has graphene been detected in space?

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of astronomers, using the Spitzer Space Telescope, have reported the first extragalactic detection of the C70 fullerene molecule, and the possible detection of planar C24 ("a piece of graphene ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Aug 11, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 17 | with audio podcast

Hydrogen opens the road to graphene ... and graphane

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international research team has discovered a new method to produce belts of graphene called nanoribbons. By using hydrogen, they have managed to unzip single-walled carbon nanotubes. The ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Solar cells will be fabricated by a single organic semiconductor

The fabrication of organic thin-film solar cells has been simplified due to new research findings. Where previously two types of organic semiconductors were required, doping the semiconductor fullerene with molybdenum oxide ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Buckyballs... throwing astronomers a curve

When I first heard about buckyballs a couple of decades ago, I had nothing but the deepest respect for anyone who understood abstract ideas like string theory and branes. After all, how often were you likely ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Mar 07, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

C60 could form a new kind of gel

(PhysOrg.com) -- C60, the spherical carbon molecule also known as a buckminsterfullerene, has intrigued scientists for its unique properties and potential applications in nanotechnology and electronics. Now scient ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 17, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (9) | comments 4 | with audio podcast weblog