Researchers create fatigue-free, stretchable conductor
Material moves foldable electronics, new implantable medical devices a step closer.
Sep 21st, 2015
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Engineers invent transparent coating that cools solar cells to boost efficiency
The quandary: The hotter solar cells get, the less efficiently they convert sunlight to electricity; The fix: A new transparent overlay allows light to hit the cells while shunting heat away.
Sep 21st, 2015
Read moreNNI Launches Nanotechnology Signature Initiative Webinar Series
The National Nanotechnology Coordination Office (NNCO) will host a series of webinars from October to December 2015 sponsored by Federal agencies participating in the Nanotechnology Knowledge Infrastructure (NKI) and the Nanotechnology for Sensors and Sensors for Nanotechnology (Sensors) Signature Initiatives.
Sep 21st, 2015
Read moreA thermal invisibility cloak actively redirects heat
Researchers have rendered electronic components thermally invisible, thanks to thermoelectric modules.
Sep 21st, 2015
Read moreProteins assemble and disassemble on command
Scientists have deciphered the genetic code that instructs proteins to either self-assemble or disassemble in response to environmental stimuli, such as changes in temperature, salinity or acidity. The discovery provides a new platform for drug delivery systems and an entirely different view of cellular functions.
Sep 21st, 2015
Read moreNanopores improve the accuracy of DNA sequencing up to a thousand times
Scientists have developed a method that improves the accuracy of DNA sequencing up to a thousand times. The method, which uses nanopores to read individual nucleotides, paves the way for better - and cheaper - DNA sequencing.
Sep 21st, 2015
Read moreDarwin on a chip
Researchers have demonstrated working electronic circuits that have been produced in a radically new way, using methods that resemble Darwinian evolution.
Sep 21st, 2015
Read moreExploring catalytic reactions at the nanoscale
Scientists have used a novel imaging capability - tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy - to map catalytic reactions at the nanoscale for the first time.
Sep 21st, 2015
Read moreHow to make large 2-D sheets
Researchers develop method for scaling up production of thin electronic material.
Sep 21st, 2015
Read moreMeasuring machines for the nanoscale
The NanoCMM project set out to develop the technology needed for a universal coordinate measuring machines (CMM) that could measure to an accuracy of 50 to 200 nanometres in all three dimensions over a volume several centimetres across.
Sep 18th, 2015
Read moreSurfing over simulated ripples in graphene
Scientists elucidate the theory governing the characteristics of curved or rippled graphene using a simulation model based on an optical lattice.
Sep 18th, 2015
Read moreThe structural memory of water persists on a picosecond timescale
Long-lived sub-structures exist in liquid water as discovered using novel ultrafast vibrational spectroscopies.
Sep 18th, 2015
Read moreDiscovery of a new photonic crystal where light propagates through the surface without being scattered
By merely slightly adjusting positions of insulator or semiconductor cylinders (nanorods) in a honeycomb lattice, electromagnetic waves can propagate without being scattered even at corners of crystal or by defects.
Sep 18th, 2015
Read morePhysicists discover spiral vortex patterns from electron waves
Physicists report an unusual pattern of wave interference produced when an electron is ejected, or ionized, from its orbit around a helium atom.
Sep 18th, 2015
Read morePhysicists defy conventional wisdom to identify ferroelectric material
A team of physicists has defied conventional wisdom by inducing stable ferroelectricity in a sheet of strontium titanate only a few nanometers thick.
Sep 18th, 2015
Read moreNano-trapped molecules are potential path to quantum devices
Single atoms or molecules imprisoned by laser light in a doughnut-shaped metal cage could unlock the key to advanced storage devices, computers and high-resolution instruments.
Sep 18th, 2015
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