Location: Cambridge, United States
Source: "Low Temperature Synthesis of Vertically Aligned
Carbon Nanotubes with Electrical Contact to Metallic Substrates Enabled by
Thermal Decomposition of the Carbon Feedstock," Gilbert Nessim, Carl V. Thompson
et al, Nano...
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Location: Tsukuba, Japan
Background and history of research:
As electronic commerce increases in popularity and information security
management at work and at home becomes more critical, there is a growing need to
improve encryption technology for open...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
New research findings at MIT could lead to microchips that operate at much
higher speeds than is possible with today's standard silicon chips, leading to
cell phones and other communications systems that can transmit data much faster. ...
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Location: California , United States
Roughly the size of a matchstick, a slender titanium tube could become a
pint-sized weapon against chronic hepatitis C and a host of other debilitating
diseases.
Three UCSF/UC Berkeley doctoral students are designing a tiny implantable...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
MIT Professor of Chemical Engineering Gregory Rutledge keeps a small piece of
fabric that at first glance resembles a Kleenex. This tissue-like material,
softer than silk, is composed of fibers that are a thousand times thinner than a
human...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
Imagine a soldier's uniform made of a special fabric that allows him to look
in all directions and identify threats that are to his side or even behind him.
In work that could turn such science fiction into reality, MIT researchers have...
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Location: Seattle, United States
A single hour of sunlight contains enough energy to meet global energy consumption for an entire year. With demand for energy on the rise and environmental pollution an increasing concern, scientists are exploring new ways to harness the sun's...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
Nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) devices have the potential to revolutionize the world of sensors: motion, chemical, temperature, etc. But taking electromechanical devices from the micro scale down to the nano requires finding a means to...
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Location: Illinois, United States
Chemists at the University of Illinois have created a simple and inexpensive
molecular technique that replaces an expensive atomic force microscope for
studying what happens to small molecules when they are stretched or compressed.
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Location: Maryland, United States
Abstract:
The ultimate electronic energy-storage device would store plenty of energy
but also charge up rapidly and provide powerful bursts when needed. Sadly,
today's devices can only do one or the other: capacitors provide...
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Location: Yale University, United States
Without better techniques for manufacturing nanoscale devices, many will remain in the lab. The chip industry also needs better nanoscale manufacturing techniques to create ever denser data storage and ever faster microprocessors. A technique...
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Location: Alberta, Canada
INDIVIDUAL SILICON ATOMS can exhibit electronic properties typical of quantum
dots composed of thousands of atoms, according to researchers at Canada's
National Institute for Nanotechnology and the University of Alberta, Edmonton
(Phys....
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Location: California, United States
If you could remove the layers of circuitry in your computer and touch the main processor while it's running a video, you would feel its blistering heat, which can exceed 100 °C. Such heat, a natural by-product of shuttling electrons
through...
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Location: Manchester, United Kingdom
Graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb-like structure,
has captured worldwide interest because of its attractive electronic properties. Now, by adding hydrogen to graphene, researchers at the University of...
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Location: Stanford, United Kingdom
By manipulating a cloud of electrons to create a hologram, a team of Stanford University has managed to enter two letters in a volume smaller than an atom. An exploit laboratory opens up new prospects in the long term.
The smallest...
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Location: Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Gecko feet have long been a source of inspiration to scientists striving to make superstrong, reusable adhesives. Now researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have found a new way to make such an adhesive grip and release as
required, using...
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Location: Florida, United States
Algae is a livid green giveaway of nutrient pollution in a lake. Scientists would love to reproduce that action in tiny particles that would turn different colors if exposed to biological weapons, food spoilage or signs of poor health in the...
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Location: Harvard, United States
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 of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have discovered...
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Location: Berkeley, United States
The laws of physics dictate that traditional lenses can't focus light onto a spot narrower than half the wavelength of the light. But converting the light into waves called plasmons can get around this limitation. Plasmonic lithography, which uses...
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Location: Toulouse, France
Over the last 60 years, ever-smaller generations of transistors have driven exponential growth in computing power. Could molecules, each turned into miniscule computer components, trigger even greater growth in computing over the next 60?...
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