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Understanding mechanical properties of silicon nanowires paves way for nanodevices

Silicon nanowires are attracting significant attention from the electronics industry due to the drive for ever-smaller electronic devices, from cell phones to computers. The operation of these future devices, ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0




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Nanospheres made of aromatic amino acids: The most rigid organic nanostructures to date

(PhysOrg.com) -- Organic nanostructures are key elements of nanotechnology because these building blocks can be made with tailored chemical properties. Their disadvantage has been that their mechanical properties ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 30, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Sharing the load: Individual fibrin fibers distribute strain across a network

A new study shows that when it comes to networks of protein fibers, individual fibers play a substantial role in effectively strengthening an entire network of fibers. The research, published by Cell Press in the April 20th ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 20, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New 'Nanowelding' Technique for Building Electronic Nanostructures

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have discovered a way to link nanowires and other nanoobjects into complex nanostructures and circuits by fusing them together with tiny amounts of solder. The researchers, from ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 29, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 0 feature

Are nanobots on their way?

[The first real steps towards building a microscopic device that can construct nano machines have been taken by US researchers. Writing in the peer-reviewed publication, International Journal of Nanomanufacturing from Inders ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 28, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (23) | comments 3

Nanotech tools yield DNA transcription breakthrough

Rutgers researcher Richard H. Ebright and his collaborators have resolved key questions regarding transcription, the fundamental life process that was the subject of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Nov 16, 2006 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (26) | comments 0

New Tools for a Nanotechnology Workshop

Until recently, nanoscale devices could only be crafted through chemical reactions or by pushing components together on a smooth surface. Researchers at the Technical University of Denmark have developed and ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 25, 2006 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (49) | comments 0 feature

Nano World: Water for denser nano-memory

Water and electronics ordinarily do not mix, but water fragments might help control memory bits in electronics only nanometers or billionths of a meter in size, potentially leading to simpler, incredibly dense computer data-storage ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 02, 2006 | popularity 4 / 5 (18) | comments 0

Biophysics : When chromosomes stretch

Biophysicists at the Institut Curie/CNRS (France), in collaboration with CNRS and University Pierre et Marie Curie physicists and biologists, have just demonstrated the remarkable elasticity of chromatin, the DNA-protein ...

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created Apr 26, 2006 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Seeing stardust: New image shows speck of comet dust from NASA mission

This photo from NASA shows a mote of comet dust embedded in a tiny wedge of aerogel extracted from the Stardust collectors that returned to Earth Jan. 15. The comet dust was extracted by University of California, ...

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created Feb 03, 2006 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (16) | comments 0

World's smallest universal material testing system

The design, development and manufacturing of revolutionary products such as the automobile, airplane and computer owe a great deal of their success to the large-scale material testing systems (MTS) that have provided engineers ...

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created Sep 22, 2005 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0


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