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Label-free detection of biomarkers with carbon nanotubes

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been of high interest because of their potential to complement or to replace current biomedical sensor and assay techniques. By taking advantage of their unique electrical and optical properties, CNTs can be integrated into highly sensitive sensors and probes.

Sep 16th, 2013

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Researchers capture speedy chemical reaction in mid-stride

In synthetic chemistry, making the best possible use of the needed ingredients is key to optimizing high-quality production at the lowest possible cost. The element rhodium is a powerful catalyst -- a driver of chemical reactions -- but is also one of the rarest and most expensive. In addition to its common use in vehicle catalytic converters, rhodium is also used in combination with other metals to efficiently drive a wide range of useful chemical reactions.

Sep 15th, 2013

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Carbon nanotubes on a spider silk scaffold

Eden Steven, a physicist at Florida State University's MagLab facility, discovered that simple methods can result in surprising and environmentally friendly high-tech outcomes during his experiments with spider silk and carbon nanotubes.

Sep 13th, 2013

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New haptic microscope technique allows researchers to 'feel' the microworld

What if you could reach through a microscope to touch and feel the microscopic structures under the lens? In a breakthrough that may usher in a new era in the exploration of the worlds that are a million times smaller than human beings, researchers at Universit� Pierre et Marie Curie in France have unveiled a new technique that allows microscope users to manipulate samples using a technology known as 'haptic optical tweezers'.

Sep 13th, 2013

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The '50-50' chip: Memory device of the future?

A new, environmentally-friendly electronic alloy consisting of 50 aluminum atoms bound to 50 atoms of antimony may be promising for building next-generation 'phase-change' memory devices, which may be the data-storage technology of the future.

Sep 13th, 2013

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