News tagged with self assembly
Right first time: Pioneering new methods of drug manufacture
Engineers at the University of Leeds have developed a simple technology which can be used in existing chemical reactors to ensure "right first time" drug crystal formation.
Nov 11, 2009 |
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Researchers find new route to nano self-assembly
(PhysOrg.com) -- If the promise of nanotechnology is to be fulfilled, nanoparticles will have to be able to make something of themselves. An important advance towards this goal has been achieved by researchers ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 22, 2009 |
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Micropatterned material surface controls cell orientation
Cells could be orientated in a controlled way on a micro-patterned surface based upon a delicate material technique, and the orientation could be semi-quantitatively described by some statistical parameters, as suggested ...
Oct 13, 2009 |
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Scientists Use DNA Scaffolding To Build Tiny Circuit Boards
(PhysOrg.com) -- Today, scientists at IBM Research and the California Institute of Technology announced a scientific advancement that could be a major breakthrough in enabling the semiconductor industry to ...
Aug 18, 2009 |
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Mysterious charge transport in self-assembled monolayer transistors unraveled
An international team of researchers from the Netherlands, Russia and Austria discovered that monolayer coverage and channel length set the mobility in self-assembled monolayer field-effect transistors (SAMFETs). ...
Aug 11, 2009 |
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Nanoscale origami from DNA
Scientists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) and Harvard University have thrown the lid off a new toolbox for building nanoscale structures out of DNA, with complex twisting and curving shapes. ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Aug 06, 2009 |
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Scientists Give a Hand(edness) to the Search for Alien Life
(PhysOrg.com) -- Visiting aliens may be the stuff of legend, but if a scientific team working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology is right, we may be able to find extraterrestrial life even ...
Apr 22, 2009 |
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A New Family of Molecules for Self-Assembly: The Carboranes
(PhysOrg.com) -- To be useful in real-world applications, a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) of molecules on a surface must have a stable and controllable geometry. Researchers at Penn State and the Sigma-Aldrich ...
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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Single-Molecule Magnets Open New Door for Information Technology
(PhysOrg.com) -- Recent research by scientists in Italy and France shows that that single molecules have the ability to store information via their magnetic state. Their work is a first step toward a new generation ...
Mar 09, 2009 |
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Nanotube's 'tapestry' controls its growth
HOUSTON -- (Feb. 5, 2009) -- Rice University materials scientists have put a new "twist" on carbon nanotube growth. The researchers found the highly touted nanomaterials grow like tiny molecular tapestries, ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Feb 05, 2009 |
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'2-faced' Bioacids Put a New Face on Carbon Nanotube Self-Assembly
Nanotubes, the tiny honeycomb cylinders of carbon atoms only a few nanometers wide, are perhaps the signature material of modern engineering research, but actually trying to organize the atomic scale rods ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jan 13, 2009 |
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Researchers control the assembly of nanobristles into helical clusters
(PhysOrg.com) -- From the structure of DNA to nautical rope to distant spiral galaxies, helical forms are as abundant as they are useful in nature and manufacturing alike. Researchers at the Harvard School ...
Jan 08, 2009 |
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