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Bursting through the silicon barrier: Developing carbon-based nanoelectronics with graphene

In a new study, using tools including those found at the Synchrotron Radiation Center, scientists have developed a process for making a never-before-seen, atomically thin, composite material containing ordered layers of graphene and nanocrystals of graphene monoxide.

Nov 27th, 2012

Size matters when reducing nickel oxide nanoparticles

New research finds that size plays a major role in how nanoscale nickel oxide (NiO) shells behave when being reduced to solid nickel nanoparticles.

Nov 27th, 2012

Researchers control the arrangement of nanoparticles via temperature

It is merely the arrangement of the carbon that makes it look so different. Highly ordered carbon makes a hard gemstone, incoherent and powdery carbon is more appropriate for a barbecue or writing letters. High pressures and temperatures can change the properties of carbon, and graphite becomes diamond. Researchers at the Leibniz Institute for New Materials were surprised to observed similar changes when monitoring nanoparticles.

Nov 27th, 2012

Muenster's Centre for Nanotechnology inspires Institute in China

CeNTech assists University in Nanjing in founding New Nano Institute - the "Herbert Gleiter Institute of Nanoscience".

Nov 27th, 2012

Tracking down smallest biomarkers

PTB and Dectris have developed a vacuum-compatible X-ray detector that allows the size of low-contrast nano-objects to be determined.

Nov 27th, 2012

A new look at wetting models: Continuum analysis

The wetting model is a classical problem in surface science and biomimetic science. Researchers in China have now approached this old and classical problem from a new direction. They stressed that it is the triple contact line and not the contact area of the droplet/solid interface that determines the macroscopic contact angle.

Nov 27th, 2012

Proving quantum computers feasible

With a new contribution to probability theory, researchers show that relatively simple physical systems could yield powerful quantum computers.

Nov 27th, 2012

Scientists develop new methods for cooling of ions

Among the most important techniques developed in atomic physics over the past few years are methods that enable the storage and cooling of atoms and ions at temperatures just above absolute zero. Scientists from Bangalore and Mainz have now demonstrated in an experiment that captured ions can also be cooled through contact with cold atoms and may thus be stored in so-called ion traps in a stable condition for longer periods of time.

Nov 27th, 2012

Video: Nanoparticle transport in tumors

This video presents the barriers nanoparticles need to overcome to reach tumor cells and current strategies being considered in research labs to help them along the way.

Nov 26th, 2012

Researchers make flexible, low-voltage circuits using nanocrystals

A team of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania has shown that nanocrystals of the semiconductor cadmium selenide can be 'printed' or 'coated' on flexible plastics to form high-performance electronics.

Nov 26th, 2012

New device hides, on cue, from infrared cameras

A new device invented at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) can absorb 99.75% of infrared light that shines on it. When activated, it appears black to infrared cameras.

Nov 26th, 2012

Scientists design a revolutionary data storage device

In the wake of the new devices and microprocessors developed by Intel (Ivy Bridge), UGR scientists are investigating alternative 3D A2RAM-based memories such as FinFET-ARAM and Trigate-ARAM patented in France and presented in the International Memory Workshop celebrated in May 2012 in Milan, Italy.