News tagged with nanometre scale

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

Researchers discover new fluorescent silicon nanoparticles

Researchers in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leicester have developed a new synthesis method, which has led them to the discovery of fluorescent silicon nanoparticles and may ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 30, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Electromechanics also operates at the nanoscale

What limits the behaviour of a carbon nanotube? This is a question that many scientists are trying to answer. Physicists at University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have now shown that electromechanical principles ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 09, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0