You might think that a pair of parallel plates hanging motionless in a vacuum just a fraction of a micrometer away from each other would be like strangers passing in the night - so close but destined never to meet. Thanks to quantum mechanics, you would be wrong.
Oct 23rd, 2013
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PICS Project will develop innovative atomic layer deposition materials and tools for high-density 3D integrated capacitors.
Oct 23rd, 2013
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Real-time monitoring of cancer cell processes could soon be possible thanks to nanoscale diamonds used as biosensors.
Oct 23rd, 2013
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A combination of nanotechnology and the traditional art of paper folding, known as origami, could be a key to a significant step toward improved battery technologies.
Oct 23rd, 2013
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Researchers increased the efficiency of adsorption and separation process of carbon dioxide in the designed system at laboratorial scale.
Oct 23rd, 2013
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A living cell is built with barriers to keep things out - and researchers are constantly trying to find ways to smuggle molecules in. Professor Giovanni Maglia and his team have engineered a biological nanopore that acts as a selective revolving door through a cell's lipid membrane. The nanopore could potentially be used in gene therapy and targeted drug delivery.
Oct 23rd, 2013
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Researchers produced peptide carriers to be used in targeted gene delivery to breast cancer cells.
Oct 23rd, 2013
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Next-generation lithium-ion batteries made with iron oxide nanoparticles could extend the driving distance of electric cars.
Oct 23rd, 2013
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Solar cells that produce electricity 24/7. Cell phones with built-in power cells that recharge in seconds and work for weeks between charges: These are just two of the possibilities raised by a novel supercapacitor design.
Oct 23rd, 2013
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Researchers at Purdue University are developing a method to mass-produce a new type of nanomaterial for advanced sensors and batteries.
Oct 23rd, 2013
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An anti-reflective film that mimics a moth's eye is durable and highly effective, overcoming some of the main barriers to commercialization.
Oct 23rd, 2013
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Researchers have developed a computer model that allows engineers to predict the best way of cutting different materials using vibration-assisted machining. This technique periodically interrupts the cutting process via the application of small-amplitude and high-frequency displacement to the cutting tool.
Oct 23rd, 2013
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Researchers in electrical and computer engineering at University of California, Santa Barbara have introduced and modeled an integrated circuit design scheme in which transistors and interconnects are monolithically patterned seamlessly on a sheet of graphene, a 2-dimensional plane of carbon atoms. The demonstration offers possibilities for ultra energy-efficient, flexible, and transparent electronics.
Oct 22nd, 2013
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Reflecting New York's growing nanotechnology corridor, month-long NANOvember celebration includes the first-ever CNSE Community Day with events in Albany, Utica and Rochester.
Oct 22nd, 2013
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As researchers develop novel therapies based on inducing specific cells to do specific things, getting the right message to the right group of cells at the right time remains a major challenge. Now researchers at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital have developed a way to deliver a light signal to specific cells deep within the body.
Oct 22nd, 2013
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Researchers describe a new approach to making cheaper, more efficient solar panels with nanowires.
Oct 22nd, 2013
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