News tagged with nanoscale applications

Researchers discover how different nanomaterial surfaces affect proteins

A new study led by nanotechnology and biotechnology experts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is providing important details on how proteins in our bodies interact with nanomaterials. In their new study, published in the ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Carving at the nanoscale

Researchers at the Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology have successfully demonstrated a new method for producing a wide variety of complex hollow nanoparticles. The work, published this week in Science, applies well known ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Tiny wires change behavior at nanoscale

Thin gold wires often used in high-end electronic applications are wonderfully flexible as well as conductive. But those qualities don't necessarily apply to the same wires at the nanoscale.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Aug 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Big book explores a small world: Professor debuts first complete guide to nanoscience

Stuart Lindsay, Arizona State University Regents' professor and director of the Biodesign Institute's Center for Single Molecule Biophysics, has just released the first comprehensive guide to a tiny world ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 04, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0




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Tighter 'stitching' makes better graphene

(Phys.org) -- Similar to how tighter stiches make for a better quality quilt, the "stitching" between individual crystals of graphene affects how well these carbon monolayers conduct electricity and retain ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nanoscale protein containers could aid drug, vaccine delivery

UCLA biochemists have designed specialized proteins that assemble themselves to form tiny molecular cages hundreds of times smaller than a single cell. The creation of these miniature structures may be the ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers develop nanodevice manufacturing strategy using DNA 'building blocks'

Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have developed a method for building complex nanostructures out of short synthetic strands of DNA. Called single-stranded ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Graphene on boron nitride work may lead to breakthrough in microchip technology

(Phys.org) -- Graphene is the wonder material that could solve the problem of making ever faster computers and smaller mobile devices when current silicon microchip technology hits an inevitable wall. Graphene, ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 28, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Good vibes: Coupling electron spin states and carbon nanotube vibrations

(Phys.org) -- An electron’s spin is separate from its motion, and is suitable for use in both highly-precise magnetic sensing as well as a qubit in quantum computing. Recently, scientists at the University ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast feature

Better, stronger, lighter armor

What makes a piece of armor effective? Sure, it needs to be strong, and it should be lightweight. But what is it about a material's composition that gives it such properties? And can we develop materials that ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Cloak of invisibility: Engineers use plasmonics to create an invisible photodetector

A team of engineers at Stanford and the University of Pennsylvania has for the first time used "plasmonic cloaking" to create a device that can see without being seen - an invisible machine that detects light. It is the first ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 21, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (17) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

300,000 times the strength of the Earth's magnetic field: BLADE's new 14 Tesla magnet

The first researchers to use the new high-field superconducting magnet at Diamond Light Source, the UK’s national synchrotron facility, are searching for “hidden magnetic states”. If found, ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 17, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (19) | comments 4

In hydrogenation and hydrogenolysis chemical reactions, water adds speed without heat

(Phys.org) -- An international team of researchers has discovered how adding trace amounts of water can tremendously speed up chemical reactions—such as hydrogenation and hydrogenolysis—in which ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created May 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Research group creates highly sensitive photodetector from graphene and quantum dots

(Phys.org) -- Researchers in Spain have succeeded in building a photodetector that is a billion times more sensitive than other such detectors based on graphene and could herald the use of graphene based light ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 15, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report


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