News tagged with carbon nanotube
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Researchers produce world's first programmable nanoprocessor
Engineers and scientists collaborating at Harvard University and the MITRE Corporation have developed and demonstrated the world's first programmable nanoprocessor.
Feb 09, 2011 |
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Taming carbon nanotubes
Carbon nanotubes have many attractive properties, and their structure and areas of application can be compared with those of graphene, the material for whose discovery the most recent Nobel Prize was awarded. In order to ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Feb 07, 2011 |
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Nano research fit for a king: Scientists test strength of composite bonds one nanotube at a time
(PhysOrg.com) -- Arthur pulled a sword from a stone, proving to a kingdom that right beats might. Researchers at Rice University are making the same point in the nanoscale realm.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Feb 02, 2011 |
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Touchscreens made of carbon
Touchscreens are in -- although the technology still has its price. The little screens contain rare and expensive elements. This is the reason why researchers at Fraunhofer are coming up with an alternative display made of ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jan 27, 2011 |
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Armchair nanoribbons made into spintronic device
In a development that may revolutionize handheld electronics, flat-panel displays, touch panels, electronic ink, and solar cells, as well as drastically reduce their manufacturing costs, physicists in Iran have created a ...
Jan 25, 2011 |
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New 'frozen smoke' material: One ounce could carpet three football fields
Scientists are reporting the development of a new, ultra-light form of "frozen smoke" -- renowned as the world's lightest solid material -- with amazing strength and an incredibly large surface area.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jan 12, 2011 |
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Spinning the unspinnable: Using biscrolling technology invented at UT Dallas
Nanotechnologists at The University of Texas at Dallas have invented a broadly deployable technology for producing weavable, knittable, sewable, and knottable yarns containing up to 95 weight percent of otherwise unspinnable ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jan 06, 2011 |
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New solar cell self-repairs like natural plant systems
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers are creating a new type of solar cell designed to self-repair like natural photosynthetic systems in plants by using carbon nanotubes and DNA, an approach aimed at increasing service ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jan 04, 2011 |
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NEC's 'Earth simulator' succeeds in prediction of photochemical reactions inside carbon nanotubes
NEC Corporation announced today that it succeeded in the world's first simulation-based prediction of laser-induced photochemical reactions that can efficiently eject a hydrogen atom from a hydrogen chloride ...
Jan 04, 2011 |
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Nanotubes behave as optical antennae
(PhysOrg.com) -- Just as walkie-talkies transmit and receive radio waves, carbon nanotubes can transmit and receive light at the nanoscale, Cornell researchers have discovered.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 21, 2010 |
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'Molecular torch' between carbon nanotubes emits electroluminescence
(PhysOrg.com) -- A single molecule bridging a "broken" single-walled carbon nanotube (CNT) is barely visible through a powerful scanning electron microscope, but the precisely assembled system can act as a ...
Dec 20, 2010 |
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How do you cut a nanotube? Lots of compression (w/ Video)
A pipefitter knows how to make an exact cut on a metal rod. But it's far harder to imagine getting a precise cut on a carbon nanotube, with a diameter 1/50,000th the thickness of a human hair.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 17, 2010 |
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Using new materials to make more reliable nanoelectromechanical systems
Given their outstanding mechanical and electrical properties, carbon nanotubes are attractive building blocks for next-generation nanoelectromechanical devices, including high-performance sensors, logic devices, and memory ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 07, 2010 |
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New nanotube material stays rubbery over a more than 1,000 degree temperature range
(PhysOrg.com) -- Silicone rubber is used in many applications in which a material is required to remain rubbery over a wide temperature range, since it retains its properties over the approximate range of ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 06, 2010 |
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NASA engineers develop 'blacker than black' nanotubes (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Black is black, right? Not so, according to a team of NASA engineers now developing a blacker-than pitch material that will help scientists gather hard-to-obtain scientific measurements or ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 03, 2010 |
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