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Oct 12th, 2013
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Quantum conductors benefit from growth on smooth foundations
Researchers in the United States and China have teamed to develop a speedway for future devices, an exotic type of electrical conductor called a topological insulator (TI). In a new paper in the journal AIP Advances, the international collaborators report that they grew two types of TI materials inside an ultra-high vacuum chamber on both smooth and rough surfaces and then evaluated their abilities to transport electrons.
Oct 11th, 2013
Read moreInnovative thermosensitive self-heating composite hydrogel concept for knee cartilage treatment
Researchers have developed a material that can be used for the controlled release of a substance when subjected to cyclic mechanical loading.
Oct 11th, 2013
Read moreTurning vapors into foam-like polymer coatings
A researcher at the University of Rochester has developed a process to grow highly customizable coatings of foam-like polymers.
Oct 11th, 2013
Read moreGraphene Flagship has set sails
The Graphene Flagship - one of Europe's first ten-year, 1,000 million Euro flagships in Future and Emerging Technologies - was launched during a ceremony in Gothenburg today.
Oct 11th, 2013
Read moreNanotechnology researchers find rust can power up artificial photosynthesis
Boston College chemists produce power boost critical to novel energy harvesting applications.
Oct 11th, 2013
Read moreToward single-molecule microscopy and spectroscopy on smartphones
New work opens the fascinating prospects of single-molecule microscopy and spectroscopy on a smart phone. One can now speculate on the possible applications of such a portable imaging device and on the perspectives it may open in different fields of science and technology.
Oct 11th, 2013
Read moreNanotechnology lab fabricates all-carbon nanotube electronic devices
Researchers fabricate all-carbon nanotube thin-film transistors on flexible substrates through CVD and transfer methods.
Oct 11th, 2013
Read moreBuilding better molecules for bendable electronics
A sequence of ring-forming chemical reactions produces organic semiconductors ideal for flexible electronic device applications.
Oct 11th, 2013
Read moreNanoimprinting technique makes it possible to fabricate visible-light-bending metamaterials at unprecedented scales
Researchers in Japan have demonstrated a scalable fabrication method that greatly eases the production of metamaterials that can interact with light at visible wavelengths.
Oct 11th, 2013
Read morePhotons on demand now possible on hair's width optical chip
A breakthrough in photonics that will help create extremely compact optical chips, a hair's width in size and delivering a photon at a time, has been achieved by researchers from the University of Sydney.
Oct 11th, 2013
Read more$1.5bn investment to jump-start New York's second nanotechnology hub
Investment by leading technology companies will create 1,000 new jobs, establish computer chip commercialization consortium to jump-start Nano Utica under construction at SUNYIT.
Oct 10th, 2013
Read moreMix of graphene nanoribbons and polymer has potential for cars, soda, beer
A discovery at Rice University aims to make vehicles that run on compressed natural gas more practical. It might also prolong the shelf life of bottled beer and soda.
Oct 10th, 2013
Read moreBending world's thinnest glass shows atoms' dance
Researchers have used an electron microscope to bend, deform and melt the one-molecule-thick glass. These are all things that happen just before glass shatters, and for the first time, the researchers have directly imaged such deformations and the resulting 'dance' of rearranging atoms in silica glass.
Oct 10th, 2013
Read moreNew nanomembrane micro water sensor can aid growers
Cornell researchers have developed a microfluidic water sensor within a fingertip-sized silicon chip that is a hundred times more sensitive than current devices.
Oct 10th, 2013
Read more'Ship in a bottle' detects dangerous vapors
Rice University scientists took a lesson from craftsmen of old to assemble microscopic compounds that warn of the presence of dangerous fumes from solvents.
Oct 10th, 2013
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