The fabrication of high-performance light detectors - important for computers and mobile devices - using graphene integrated onto a chip is reported in three independent studies published this week.
Sep 15th, 2013
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Researchers report the first experimental evidence that supports the theory that a soccer ball-shaped nanoparticle commonly called a buckyball is the result of a breakdown of larger structures rather than being built atom-by-atom from ground up.
Sep 15th, 2013
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UT Arlington's Nanotechnology Research and Education Center joined the University's Shimadzu Institute for Research Technologies on Sept. 1 in an effort to better support faculty research, lower operating costs and adapt to user needs.
Sep 15th, 2013
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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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Researchers produced a new type of coating with desirable anticorrosion properties by using zinc oxide nanoparticles to be used in automobile manufacturing industries.
Sep 15th, 2013
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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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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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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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This document follows on from a report published by the Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials (WPMN), entitled 'Important Issues on Risk Assessment of Manufactured Nanomaterials'.
Sep 13th, 2013
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The precise mechanisms governing the relationships between superconductivity and magnetism were examined by using advanced scanning tunneling microscopy.
Sep 13th, 2013
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Scientists at Aalto University have measured the low but non-zero friction of droplets moving on slippery water-repellent surfaces.
Sep 13th, 2013
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Using colloidal lead sulfide nanocrystal quantum dot substances, NRL researchers achieve the highest recorded open-circuit voltages for quantum dot solar cells to date.
Sep 13th, 2013
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Energy losses in nanowire solar cell can be significantly reduced by 'cleaning' the surface of the cells with a special etching method. This has been shown by researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology, Delft University of Technology and Philips. The solar cell has an efficiency of 11.1%, putting it just below the current world record, but it was reached with much less use of material.
Sep 13th, 2013
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By inserting platinum atoms into an organic semiconductor, University of Utah physicists were able to 'tune' the plastic-like polymer to emit light of different colors - a step toward more efficient, less expensive and truly white organic LEDs for light bulbs of the future.
Sep 13th, 2013
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Real-time observations of lithium-oxygen electrochemical reactions could aid development of lightweight rechargeable batteries for electric vehicles.
Sep 13th, 2013
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It is difficult to make graphene in forms needed for electronics. Now, researchers from Stanford University have found a new method of making graphene by chemically converting DNA templates into flat sheets of carbon, potentially overcoming that limitation.
Sep 13th, 2013
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