News tagged with molecular wire

Cobalt-controlled communication: Fine performance tuning of organometallic molecular wire

(PhysOrg.com) -- Smaller and smarter: this is the aim of research in the quest for ever faster electronic devices smaller in size but capable of performing more complicated tasks. Devices consisting of the ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Sep 06, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Chemistry Team Seeks to Use Artificial Photosynthesis and Nanotubes to Generate Hydrogen Fuel with Sunlight

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of four chemists at the University of Rochester have begun work on a new kind of system to derive usable hydrogen fuel from water using only sunlight.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers achieve breakthrough in effort to develop tiny biological fuel cells

University of Georgia researchers have developed a successful way to grow molecular wire brushes that conduct electrical charges, a first step in developing biological fuel cells that could power pacemakers, cochlear implants ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 19, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Single polymer chains as molecular wires

The research team of Leonhard Grill at Freie Universität Berlin - in collaboration with the synthetic chemistry group of Stefan Hecht from Humboldt University of Berlin and the theoretical physics group of Christian ...

Chemistry / Polymers

created Feb 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Plugging in Molecular Wires

(PhysOrg.com) -- Plants, algae, and cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) are masters of everything to do with solar energy because they are able to almost completely transform captured sunlight into chemical energy. This is in ...

Chemistry /

created Feb 11, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0