A new environmental chamber constructed by the Materials Science Division at Argonne allows researchers to watch materials as they grow step-by-step while interacting in elevated-temperature, reactive-gas environments.
May 8th, 2006
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Engineers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science are announcing a critical new breakthrough in semiconductor spin-wave research.
May 8th, 2006
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University of Wisconsin-Madison mechanical engineers have developed a method for fabricating packages of tiny sensors that measure temperature more accurately than bulk thermocouples. Inserted unobtrusively in critical locations, these metal-embedded micro-thin film thermocouples could more effectively monitor conditions and diagnose problems during manufacturing processes such as injection-molding or die-casting.
May 5th, 2006
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Scientists from Philips Research and the University of Groningen (the Netherlands) have for the first time fabricated arrays of molecular diodes on standard substrates with high yields.
May 4th, 2006
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Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have engineered nanoscale materials that are blood compatible using heparin, an anticoagulant. The heparin biomaterials have potential for use as medical devices and in medical treatments such as kidney dialysis.
May 4th, 2006
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Engineers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science are announcing a critical new breakthrough in semiconductor spin-wave research.
May 4th, 2006
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IBM researchers have demonstrated a new nanoscale method that both rapidly separates very small numbers of molecules and also delivers them precisely onto surfaces with unprecedented control.
May 2nd, 2006
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T-rays show a strange tendency to travel slower if they are sent down smaller metal wires.
May 2nd, 2006
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Engineers have created carpets made of tiny cylinders called carbon nanotubes to enhance the flow of heat at a critical point where computer chips connect to cooling devices called heat sinks, promising to help keep future chips from overheating.
May 1st, 2006
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Using polymer-coated quantum dots targeted to a molecule found on newly growing blood vessels, a team at the Stanford University has shown for the first time that quantum dots can image the blood supply of a tumor.
May 1st, 2006
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By growing polymers on a porous aluminum oxide template, researchers at the Seoul National University in Korea have fabricated polymer nanotubes to which they can attach two different types of molecules.
May 1st, 2006
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For the first time, researchers have directly measured the electronic structure of individual carbon nanotubes whose physical properties had already been determined.
Apr 28th, 2006
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In a mixing of pasta metaphors, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory scientists have used electrostatic attraction to layer reactive biological molecules lasagna-like around spaghetti-like carbon nanotubes.
Apr 28th, 2006
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Excessive moisture can typically wreak havoc on electronic devices, but now researchers have demonstrated that a little water can help create ultra-dense storage systems for computers and electronics.
Apr 26th, 2006
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Detecting cancer and reinventing computing are two challenges that seemingly have little, if anything, to do with each other. A Stanford researchers thinks differently.
Apr 25th, 2006
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Nanotechnology may one day help physicians detect the very earliest stages of serious diseases like cancer, a new study suggests. It would do so by improving the quality of images produced by one of the most common medical diagnostic tools, the ultrasound machine.
Apr 24th, 2006
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