News tagged with nanoscience

First nanoscale mass spectrometer created

Using devices millionths of a meter in size, physicists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a technique to determine the mass of a single molecule, in real time.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 2

New windows opened on cell-to-cell interactions (w/ Video)

Applying biological molecules from cell membranes to the surfaces of artificial materials is opening peepholes on the very basics of cell-to-cell interaction.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New method to detect quantum mechanical effects in ordinary objects

At the quantum level, the atoms that make up matter and the photons that make up light behave in a number of seemingly bizarre ways. Particles can exist in "superposition," in more than one state at the same ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (21) | comments 1

Controllable double quantum dots and Klein tunneling in nanotubes

Researchers from the Kavli Institute of NanoScience in Delft are the first to have successfully captured a single electron in a highly tunable carbon nanotube double quantum dot. This was made possible by a new approach for ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

ACS announces winners of 'What is Nano?' video contest

The American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced the winners of the "What is Nano?" video contest held by ACS Nanotation, the Web community site for nanoscience and nanotechnology researchers and enthusiasts. Organized as ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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