News tagged with nanopattern

New nanopatterned surfaces could improve the efficiency of powerplants, desalination systems

The condensation of water is crucial to the operation of most of the powerplants that provide our electricity — whether they are fueled by coal, natural gas or nuclear fuel. It is also the key to producing potable water ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

More precise method of nanopatterning

“A nanoimprint method has already been achieved in nanopatterning with a high resolution using negative type photoresist,” Kosei Ueno tells PhysOrg.com. Ueno is a scientist at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan, ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast feature

Harnessing nanopatterns: Tiny textures can produce big differences

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research at MIT has uncovered new information about how nanoscale patterns on the surface of a material can produce significant changes in the way it interacts with liquids. The discovery ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

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How ion bombardment reshapes metal surfaces

To modify a metal surface at the scale of atoms and molecules — for instance to refine the wiring in computer chips or the reflective silver in optical components — manufacturers shower it with ions. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | 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

Scientists develop new tool for the study of spatial patterns in living cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- Football has often been called “a game of inches,” but biology is a game of nanometers, where spatial differences of only a few nanometers can determine the fate of a cell – ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

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Packing in six times more storage density with the help of table salt

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dr Joel Yang from the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), a research institute of Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research, with collaborators from ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 14, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Nanomaterials: Pillars of the assembly

The ever-increasing demand for enhanced performance in electronic devices such as solar cells, sensors and batteries is matched by a need to find ways to make smaller electrical components. Several techniques ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 29, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

An upside-down cake throws a new light on photovoltaics

Do better with less. That is the challenge the researchers of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) have set for themselves, supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 09, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

A nanotech solution controlling the path of light can brighten up our lives

We want our electrical devices to have bright screens with low energy needs, so they can be used for a long time before recharge is required. Scientists are increasing the intensity of light by making nanometer ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 18, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Zeroing in on the elusive green LED

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new method for manufacturing green-colored LEDs with greatly enhanced light output.

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 18 | with audio podcast

Researchers advance understanding of wetting of nanopatterned surfaces

(PhysOrg.com) -- Virginia Commonwealth University researchers have identified the molecular mechanisms at play for the non-additive wetting free energies at chemically heterogeneous surfaces.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

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Hot off the press: Nanoscale Gutenberg-style printing

(PhysOrg.com) -- When Gutenberg developed the principles of modern book printing, books became available to the masses. Hoping to bring technology capable of mass production to the nanometer scale, Udo Bach ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 15, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast


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