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Faster, cheaper chips from space technology

(PhysOrg.com) -- Our world is full of integrated semiconductor circuits, commonly known as microchips. Today you find them in computers, cars, mobile phones and in almost every electrical device. Technology ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Mar 26, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (11) | comments 1

Gold Nanobeacons Detect Sentinel Lymph Nodes

(PhysOrg.com) -- Virtually every patient diagnosed with breast cancer or melanoma undergoes lymph node biopsy to determine if their cancer has begun spreading in the body. Taking this biopsy involves an invasive and uncomfortable ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 25, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers create 3-D invisibility cloak: study

European researchers have taken the world a step closer to fictional wizard Harry Potter's invisibility cape after they made an object disappear using a three-dimensional "cloak", a study published Thursday in the US-based ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 18, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (16) | comments 6

3-D cell culture: Making cells feel right at home

The film "Avatar" isn't the only 3-D blockbuster making a splash this winter. A team of Houston scientists this week unveiled a new technique for growing 3-D cell cultures, a technological leap from the flat petri dish that ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 15, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A golden bullet for cancer: Nanoparticles provide a targeted version of photothermal therapy for cancer

In a lecture he delivered in 1906, the German physician Paul Ehrlich coined the term Zuberkugel, or "magic bullet," as shorthand for a highly targeted medical treatment.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 12, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Using Gold Nanoparticles to Hit Cancer Where It Hurts

(PhysOrg.com) -- Taking gold nanoparticles to the cancer cell and hitting them with a laser has been shown to be a promising tool in fighting cancer, but what about cancers that occur in places where a laser light can’t reach? ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Gold and silver nanowires bond naturally, stay strong

(PhysOrg.com) -- Welding uses heat to join pieces of metal in everything from circuits to skyscrapers. But Rice University researchers have found a way to beat the heat on the nanoscale.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'Perfect' Liquid Hot Enough to be Quark Soup (w/ Video)

Recent analyses from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a 2.4-mile-circumference "atom smasher" at the U.S. DOE's Brookhaven National Laboratory, establish that collisions of gold ions traveling at ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 15, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (24) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Scientists turn light into electrical current using a golden nanoscale system

Material scientists at the Nano/Bio Interface Center of the University of Pennsylvania have demonstrated the transduction of optical radiation to electrical current in a molecular circuit. The system, an array ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 12, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (21) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Energy from light and water: New photocatalytic method for the clean production of hydrogen from water

(PhysOrg.com) -- Hydrogen-powered fuel cells and solar energy are the best hope for a more environmentally friendly and resource-sparing energy supply in the future. A combination of the two is considered to be particularly ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Feb 09, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (18) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

'Nanobubbles' kill cancer cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using lasers and nanoparticles, scientists at Rice University have discovered a new technique for singling out individual diseased cells and destroying them with tiny explosions. The scientists used lasers ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 04, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (25) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

An organic transistor paves the way for new generations of neuro-inspired computers

For the first time, French researchers at CNRS and CEA have developed a transistor that can mimic the main functionalities of a synapse.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 22, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (18) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Golden pairs: Catalytic dimers of gold atoms make ethylene from methane

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ethylene (ethene, CH2=CH2) is a primary feedstock for chemical industry, and particularly for the production of plastics like polyethylene and polystyrene. Ethylene is currently made by the steam cracking ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jan 19, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Self-assembling solar panels a step closer

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists Robert J. Knuesel and Heiko O. Jacobs of the University of Minnesota have developed a way to make tiny solar cells self-assemble.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jan 14, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (26) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

All smoothed out: Hydroxyl radicals remove nanoscopic irregularities on polished gold surfaces

(PhysOrg.com) -- The precious metal gold is the material of choice for many technical applications because it does not corrode - and because it also has interesting electrical, magnetic, and optical properties. Gold is thus ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jan 14, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast