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Scientists discover bilayer structure in efficient solar material

Detailed studies of one of the best-performing organic photovoltaic materials reveal an unusual bilayer lamellar structure that may help explain the material's superior performance at converting sunlight to electricity and ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

UWM discovery advances graphene-based electronics

(Phys.org) -- Scientists and engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) have discovered an entirely new carbon-based material that is synthesized from the “wonder kid” of the carbon ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 16, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers increase speed of single-molecule measurements

As nanotechnology becomes ever more ubiquitous, researchers are using it to make medical diagnostics smaller, faster, and cheaper, in order to better diagnose diseases, learn more about inherited traits, and ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New generation of flexible graphene transistors

Making electronic components using graphene, a material composed of a single layer of carbon atoms, is one of today's major technological challenges. Researchers hope to harness the outstanding electron mobility ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers use nanoscale transistors to study single-molecule interactions

An interdisciplinary team from Columbia University that includes electrical engineers from Columbia's Engineering School, together with researchers from the University's departments of Physics and Chemistry, has figured ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Physicists invent 'QuIET' - single molecule transistors

University of Arizona physicists have discovered how to turn single molecules into working transistors. It's a breakthrough needed to make the next-generation of remarkably tiny, powerful computers that nanotechnologists ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 30, 2006 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (137) | comments 0

Single molecule transistors

A team of scientists led by ASU biophysicist Stuart Lindsay, director of the Center for Single Molecule Biophysics at the Biodesign Institute and an ASU professor of physics, recently created the first reproducible single ...

Nanotechnology /

created Sep 02, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Theorist helps develop first single molecule transistor

A scientist at the University of Liverpool has helped to create the world's smallest transistor - by proving that a single molecule can power electric circuits Dr Werner Hofer, from the University's Surface Science Research ...

Nanotechnology /

created Jun 07, 2005 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New concept for single molecule transistor

Molecular electronics – using molecules in the construction of electronic circuitry – just took a significant step closer to reality. Principal investigator Dr. Robert Wolkow, postdoctoral fellow Dr. Paul ...

Nanotechnology /

created Jun 01, 2005 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Single-Molecule Chemical-Field-Effect Transistor with Nanometer-Sized Gates

F. Jackel and group of scientists from Max-Planck-Institute and Humboldt University Berlin, Germany present a prototypical single-molecule chemical-field-effect transistor, in which the current through a hybrid-molecular ...

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created May 07, 2004 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists develop biological computer to encrypt and decipher images

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute in California and the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology have developed a "biological computer" made entirely from biomolecules that is capable of deciphering ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Eureka! Kitchen gadget inspires scientist to make more effective plastic electronics

One day in 2010, Rutgers physicist Vitaly Podzorov watched a store employee showcase a kitchen gadget that vacuum-seals food in plastic. The demo stuck with him. The simple concept – an airtight seal ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Study finds how lysozyme protein in tears annihilates dangerous bacteria

A disease-fighting protein in our teardrops has been tethered to a tiny transistor, enabling UC Irvine scientists to discover exactly how it destroys dangerous bacteria. The research could prove critical to ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

S-t-r-e-t-c-h-i-n-g electrical conductance to the limit

Individual molecules have been used to create electrical components like resistors, transistors and diodes, that mimic the properties of familiar semiconductors. But according to Nongjian (NJ) Tao, a researcher ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Into the magnetic blue yonder

Probing the quantum mechanics of magnetism is not for the faint of heart. Literally. The door to Madalina Furis’ laboratory on the fifth floor of the Cook Building has a sign that reads “Stop! No ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 5 | with audio podcast