News tagged with hexagonal pattern

Straintronics: Engineers create piezoelectric graphene

In what became known as the 'Scotch tape technique," researchers first extracted graphene with a piece of adhesive in 2004. Graphene is a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb, hexagonal pattern. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Researchers Find Better Way To Manufacture Fast Computer Chips

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers at Ohio State University are developing a technique for mass producing computer chips made from the same material found in pencils.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (14) | comments 1




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Team finds buckyballs grow larger by 'eating' vaporized carbon

(Phys.org) -- Fullerenes were first discovered back in 1985 by a team of physicists vaporizing graphite in helium gas, one class of which, the buckminsterfullerene (C60) named after Buckminster Fuller and ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 30, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast weblog

Researchers direct the self-assembly of gold nanoparticles into device-ready thin films

Scientists with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have directed the first self-assembly of nanoparticles into device-ready materials. Through ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Two-dimensional boron has potential advantages over graphene

(Phys.org) -- When is nothing really something? When it leads to a revelation about boron, an element with worlds of unexplored potential.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Microprocessors from pencil lead

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Arizona physicists are making discoveries that may advance electronic circuit technology.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 30, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers present a shiny new tool for imaging biomolecules

At the heart of the immune system that protects our bodies from disease and foreign invaders is a vast and complex communications network involving millions of cells, sending and receiving chemical signals ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Computer simulations suggest graphynes may be even more useful than graphene

(PhysOrg.com) -- The past several years have seen a virtual explosion in the amount of research dedicated to graphene and as a result there has been a nearly constant stream of news pertaining to new discoveries ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 26 | with audio podcast report

Understanding bacterial sensors: Researchers piece together model of chemoreceptor arrays

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nearly all motile bacteria can sense and respond to their surroundings—finding food, avoiding poisons, and targeting cells to infect, for example—through a process called chemotaxis. ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 29, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Ordered planar polymers created for the first time

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists under the direction of ETH Zurich have created a minor sensation in synthetic chemistry. They succeeded for the first time in producing regularly ordered planar polymers that form ...

Chemistry / Polymers

created Feb 13, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

A bronze matryoshka doll: The metal in the metal in the metal

A doll in a doll, and then one more, enveloping them from the outside – this is how Thomas Faessler explains his molecule. He packs one atom in a cage within an atom framework. With their large surfaces ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Crystallizing the future of oxide materials

(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Arkansas physicist and his colleagues have examined the challenges facing scientists building the next generation of materials and innovative electronic devices and identified ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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