News tagged with nanostructures
Related topics: nanoparticles , nanometers , solar cells , light , carbon nanotube
Researchers create catalysts for use in hydrogen storage materials
A team of scientists from Virginia Commonwealth University, the University of Uppsala in Sweden, and the Savannah River National Laboratory have identified that carbon nanostructures can be used as catalysts to store and ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 24, 2009 |
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Nanotech Batteries for a New Energy Future
(PhysOrg.com) -- In order to save money and energy, many people are purchasing hybrid electric cars or installing solar panels on the roofs of their homes. But both have a problem -- the technology to store ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 19, 2009 |
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Nanocups brim with potential: Light-bending metamaterial could lead to superlenses, invisibility cloaks
Researchers at Rice University have created a metamaterial that could light the way toward high-powered optics, ultra-efficient solar cells and even cloaking devices.
Mar 13, 2009 |
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Researchers discover a potential on-off switch for nanoelectronics
As electronic circuits shrink from finely etched lines in silicon wafers to nearly elusive proportions, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Columbia University ...
Mar 03, 2009 |
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New research identifies faster detection of viruses
A more specific and faster detection of viruses has been identified in new research by Trinity College Dublin's Professor of Physics, Martin Hegner at Trinity College's Centre of Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 17, 2009 |
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Targeted nanospheres find, penetrate, then fuel burning of melanoma
Hollow gold nanospheres equipped with a targeting peptide find melanoma cells, penetrate them deeply, and then cook the tumor when bathed with near-infrared light, a research team led by scientists at The University of Texas ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 02, 2009 |
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Capture of nanomagnetic 'fingerprints' a boost for next-generation information storage media
In the race to develop the next generation of storage and recording media, a major hurdle has been the difficulty of studying the tiny magnetic structures that will serve as their building blocks. Now a team ...
Jan 29, 2009 |
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Light-speed nanotech: Controlling the nature of graphene
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have discovered a new method for controlling the nature of graphene, bringing academia and industry potentially one step closer to realizing the mass production ...
Jan 21, 2009 |
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The gold standard: researchers use nanoparticles to make 3-D DNA nanotubes
Arizona State University researchers Hao Yan and Yan Liu imagine and assemble intricate structures on a scale almost unfathomably small. Their medium is the double-helical DNA molecule, a versatile building ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 01, 2009 |
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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 ...
Dec 29, 2008 |
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