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Multiple groups claim to create first atom-thick silicon sheets

(PhysOrg.com) -- Since its discovery in 2004, graphene -- sheets of carbon an atom thick -- has sparked a flurry of research into the nanomaterial's potential applications for blazing fast, tiny electronics. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 30, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

A new paper made of graphene and protein fibrils

(Phys.org) -- Researchers led by Raffaele Mezzenga, a professor in Food and Soft Materials Science, have created a new nanocomposite made of graphene and protein fibrils: a special paper, which combines the ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 07, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Exotic material shows promise as flexible, transparent electrode

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of scientists with roots at SLAC and Stanford has shown that ultra-thin sheets of an exotic material remain transparent and highly conductive even after being deeply ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Smart skin: Electronics that stick and stretch like a temporary tattoo (w/ video)

Engineers have developed a device platform that combines electronic components for sensing, medical diagnostics, communications and human-machine interfaces, all on an ultrathin skin-like patch that mounts ...

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 11, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (17) | comments 22 | with audio podcast

Colored solar cells could make display screens more efficient

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new kind of screen pixel doubles as a solar cell and could boost the energy efficiency of cell phones and e-readers. The technology could also potentially be used in larger displays to make ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 07, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

'Flying carpet': Princeton team's plastic sheet can hover above ground (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- A thin sheet of plastic has been making headlines at Princeton as a magical flying carpet, after the publication of a paper describing experiments by the team with their prototype sheet of ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 01, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (12) | comments 8 | with audio podcast weblog

From ventriloquist's dummies to turkey dinners, 3-D printing is heading home

When the ventriloquist Jeff Dunham wanted to make a new dummy for his show, he designed the character's head on his home computer and then printed it out in his workshop.

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Shape-shifting sheets automatically fold into multiple shapes (w/ Video)

"More than meets the eye" may soon become more than just a tagline for a line of popular robotic toys. Researchers at Harvard and MIT have reshaped the landscape of programmable matter by devising self-folding ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 28, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (13) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

'Holey' Nanosheets for Wastewater Dye Removal

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have discovered that extremely thin sheets of nickel oxide with hexagonally shaped holes can absorb hazardous dyes from wastewater nearly as well as the best traditional methods, but are recyclable. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 feature

Royal College of Art student make a 3D printer that focuses the light of the sun

(PhysOrg.com) -- 3D printing has been around for a few years. If you hooked it up to a solar panel you could make it work with the sun, but still would not be as cool as doing it the way that Markus Kayser, ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jun 27, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 11 | with audio podcast weblog

Nanomembranes promise new materials for advanced electronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- The camera in your phone collects light on silicon and translate that information into digital bits. One of the reasons those cameras and phones continue to improve is that researchers are developing new ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nanowrinkles, nanofolds yield strange hidden channels

Wrinkles and folds are ubiquitous. They occur in furrowed brows, planetary topology, the surface of the human brain, even the bottom of a gecko's foot. In many cases, they are nature's ingenious way of packing ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Using graphene oxide to examine molecules in living cells proves popular

Whether indicating the onset of disease or exposure to toxins, the molecular machinery of cells can provide a wealth of information if scientists can track and examine the molecules.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Flaky graphene makes reliable chemical sensors

Scientists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the company Dioxide Materials have demonstrated that randomly stacked graphene flakes can make an effective chemical sensor.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

What lies beneath: Mapping hidden nanostructures

The ability to diagnose and predict the properties of materials is vital, particularly in the expanding field of nanotechnology. Electron and atom-probe microscopy can categorize atoms in thin sheets of material, ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1