News tagged with soft lithography

PRINTed nanoparticles deliver multiple punches to treat prostate cancer

Using technologies common to the semiconductor industry, a team of investigators at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Liquidia Technologies has created a polymer nanoparticle that can encapsulate large loads ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers suspend, image single DNA molecules

(PhysOrg.com) -- Studying chemical modifications in the chromosomes of cells is akin to searching for changes in coiled spaghetti. Scientists at Cornell have figured out how to stretch out tangled strands ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The Shrinky Dink solution

Toys don't usually inspire high-tech innovation, but Michelle Khine's childhood favorite did just that.

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Lessons from Schon -- the worst physics fraudster?

How did a 31-year-old physicist working at Bell Labs in New Jersey, US, get away with possibly the worst case of physics research fraud known? From claims to have made the world's first organic electrical laser to the fictional ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 05, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (12) | comments 5




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Process makes polymers truly plastic

Just as a chameleon changes its color to blend in with its environment, Duke University engineers have demonstrated for the first time that they can alter the texture of plastics on demand, for example, switching ...

Chemistry / Polymers

created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

New way to shape thin gel sheets proposed

Inspired by nature's ability to shape a petal, and building on simple techniques used in photolithography and printing, researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed a new tool for ...

Chemistry / Polymers

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New technique produces free-standing piezoelectric ferroelectric nanostructures from PZT material

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have developed a “soft template infiltration” technique for fabricating free-standing piezoelectrically active ferroelectric nanotubes and other nanostructures from PZT ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

New technique makes it easier to etch semiconductors

Creating semiconductor structures for high-end optoelectronic devices just got easier, thanks to University of Illinois researchers.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

New coatings process lowers fuel consumption

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Surrey have invented a new process to make bespoke coatings that could one day reduce the 'drag resistance' of ships and aeroplanes and thereby lower fuel ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

A SHARP new microscope for the next generation of microchips

(PhysOrg.com) -- Moore’s Law, hardly a law but undeniably a persistent trend, says that every year and a half, the number of transistors that fit on a chip roughly doubles. It’s why electronics – ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New glass stamp may make cheaper, more precise biosensors

Advances in microchip technology may someday enable clinicians to perform tests for hundreds of diseases -- sifting out specific molecules, such as early stage cancer cells -- from just one drop of blood. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

World’s first 3D plasmon ruler: Taking the 3-D measure of macromolecules

(PhysOrg.com) -- The world's first three-dimensional plasmon rulers, capable of measuring nanometer-scale spatial changes in macrmolecular systems, have been developed by researchers with the U.S. Department ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Smooth operators: Teflon microfluidic chips

(PhysOrg.com) -- The growing number of research and development efforts focused on microfluidics speaks to the technology’s promise of a potentially broad range of applications, largely in highly-integrated ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created May 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast feature

Method prints nanostructures using hard, sharp 'pen' tips floating on soft polymer springs

(PhysOrg.com) -- Northwestern University researchers have developed a new technique for rapidly prototyping nanoscale devices and structures that is so inexpensive the "print head" can be thrown away when ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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