A new look at surface chemistry
Technique for studying the atomic structure of material surfaces holds promise for catalysis, corrosion and other critical reactions.
Jun 17th, 2015
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Toward nanorobots that swim through blood to deliver drugs (w/video)
Scientists are reporting the development of new nanoswimmers that can move easily through body fluids to their targets.
Jun 17th, 2015
Read moreA new way to image surfaces on the nanoscale
A multi-institutional team of scientists has taken an important step in understanding where atoms are located on the surfaces of rough materials, information that could be very useful in diverse commercial applications, such as developing green energy and understanding how materials rust.
Jun 17th, 2015
Read moreU.S. government calls for nanotechnology-inspired Grand Challenges
Today, the Office of Science and Technology Policy issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking suggestions for Nanotechnology-Inspired Grand Challenges for the Next Decade. A Grand Challenge is an ambitious but achievable goal that requires advances in science and technology to achieve, and that has the potential to capture the public's imagination.
Jun 17th, 2015
Read moreHot nanostructures cool faster when they are physically close together
A complete description of nanoscale thermal transport is a fundamental problem that has defied understanding for decades. Here, researchers uncover a new regime of thermal transport near nanoscale structures, where counterintuitively, nanoscale hot spots cool more quickly when placed close together than when they are widely separated.
Jun 17th, 2015
Read moreInkjet inks made of silk could yield smart bandages, bacteria-sensing gloves and more
Multi-functional printable silk inks tap common print technology to address therapeutics, regenerative medicine, bio-sensing needs.
Jun 17th, 2015
Read moreHooked on phonons: Researchers measure graphene vibrations
An international research group has developed a method for measuring crystal vibrations in graphene. Understanding these vibrations is a critical step toward controlling future technologies based on graphene.
Jun 17th, 2015
Read moreTo give cancer a deadly fever, researchers explore better nanoparticle design
Heat may be the key to killing certain types of cancer, and new research has yielded unexpected results that should help optimize the design of magnetic nanoparticles that can be used to deliver heat directly to cancerous tumors.
Jun 17th, 2015
Read moreEmergence of 'Devil's staircase'
Anomalous spin ordering revealed by brilliant synchrotron soft X-rays.
Jun 17th, 2015
Read more3D bioprinter uses carbon nanotube enhanced cellulose
Researchers have managed to print and dry three-dimensional objects made entirely by cellulose for the first time with the help of a 3D-bioprinter. They also added carbon nanotubes to create electrically conductive material.
Jun 17th, 2015
Read moreSuccessors to FinFET for 7nm and beyond to be presented
At this week's VLSI 2015 Symposium in Kyoto, imec reported new results on nanowire FETs and quantum-well FinFETs towards post-FinFET multi-gate device solutions.
Jun 17th, 2015
Read moreRenewable energy from evaporating water (w/video)
Scientists report the development of two novel devices that derive power directly from evaporation - a floating, piston-driven engine that generates electricity causing a light to flash, and a rotary engine that drives a miniature car.
Jun 16th, 2015
Read moreGraphene heat-transfer riddle unraveled
Researchers have solved the long-standing conundrum of how the boundary between grains of graphene affects heat conductivity in thin films of the miracle substance - bringing developers a step closer to being able to engineer films at a scale useful for cooling microelectronic devices and hundreds of other nano-tech applications.
Jun 16th, 2015
Read moreNanoparticles naturally fall into left- and right-handed versions
Researchers published first experimental results showing that ordinary nanocrystals possess intrinsic chirality and can be produced under normal conditions as a half-and-half mixture of mirror images of each other.
Jun 16th, 2015
Read moreEfficient conversion from spin currents to charge currents in a superconductor
Paving the way to future superconducting spintronics devices.
Jun 16th, 2015
Read moreSupport morphology affects nanoparticle adsorption
Scientists have discovered an intriguing phenomenon in adsorption properties of nanoparticles.
Jun 16th, 2015
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