News tagged with nanosystems

Researchers create molecular Braille to identify DNA molecules

Researchers at UCLA and New York University have developed a method to detect sequence differences in individual DNA molecules by taking nanoscopic pictures of the molecules themselves.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers publish a detailed review of electrical contacts in one and two dimensional nanomaterials

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology and Sandia National Laboratories have published a detailed review of recent experimental and theoretical work highlighting the unusual ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tandem polymer solar cells that set record for energy-conversion

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the effort to convert sunlight into electricity, photovoltaic solar cells that use conductive organic polymers for light absorption and conversion have shown great potential. Organic polymers ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Feb 13, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Innovation promises expanded roles for microsensors

Researchers have learned how to improve the performance of sensors that use tiny vibrating microcantilevers to detect chemical and biological agents for applications from national security to food processing.

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers demonstrate fully printed carbon nanotube transistor circuits for displays

Since the invention of liquid crystal displays in the mid-1960s, display electronics have undergone rapid transformation. Recently developed organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) have shown several advantages over LCDs, including ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Study shows nanoparticles used as additives in diesel fuels can travel from lungs to liver

Recent studies conducted at Marshall University have demonstrated that nanoparticles of cerium oxide -- common diesel fuel additives used to increase the fuel efficiency of automobile engines -- can travel from the lungs ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

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Got flow cytometry? All you need is five bucks and a cell phone

(PhysOrg.com) -- Flow cytometry, a technique for counting and examining cells, bacteria and other microscopic particles, is used routinely in diagnosing disorders, infections and cancers and evaluating the ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jul 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Bacteria use Batman-like grappling hooks to 'slingshot' on surfaces

Bacteria use various appendages to move across surfaces prior to forming multicellular bacterial biofilms. Some species display a particularly jerky form of movement known as "twitching" motility, which is made possible by ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Old life capable of revealing new tricks after all

(PhysOrg.com) -- Archaea are among the oldest known life-forms, but they are not well understood. It was only in the 1970s that these single-celled microorganisms were designated as a domain of life distinct ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 06, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'I'm a tumor and I'm over here!' Nanovaults used to prod immune system to fight cancer (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- UCLA scientists have discovered a way to wake up the immune system to fight cancer by delivering an immune system-stimulating protein in a nanoscale container called a vault directly into ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 03, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Louisiana Tech researcher presents on eco-friendly nanotechnology at national conference

Dr. Yuri Lvov, professor of chemistry and T.C. Pipes endowed chair in micro and nanosystems at Louisiana Tech University, recently led a symposium at the 241st Conference of the American Chemical Society (ACS), discussing ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

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Nanoscale probe reveals interactions between surfaces and single molecules

(PhysOrg.com) -- As electronics become smaller and smaller the need to understand nanoscale phenomena becomes greater and greater. Because materials exhibit different properties at the nanoscale than they ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

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Radically simple technique developed to grow conducting polymer thin films

(PhysOrg.com) -- Oil and water don't mix, but add in some nanofibers and all bets are off.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 01, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover 'walking' properties of bacteria

(PhysOrg.com) -- Many drug-resistant infections are the result of bacterial biofilms, structured aggregates of bacteria that live on surfaces and that are extremely resistant to environmental stresses. These ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Engineers achieve world record with high-speed graphene transistors

(PhysOrg.com) -- Graphene, a one-atom-thick layer of graphitic carbon, has great potential to make electronic devices such as radios, computers and phones faster and smaller. But its unique properties have also led to difficulties ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 03, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 1 | with audio podcast