Researchers have developed a way to make these structures grow in an electron microscope. By recording the atoms self-assembling to form the whiskers - renamed in modern fashion as nanowires - they hope to understand how they grow and how to tune the growth conditions to build nano-devices.
Aug 3rd, 2015
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Loads of cosmetics like sunscreen lotions contain titanium dioxide. These nanoparticles are contentious. But it is difficult to prove that the particles are in the lotions. Using a newly developed method, the particles can now be calculated.
Aug 3rd, 2015
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A new phenomenon in which flow of electricity completely changes with odd and even numbers of junctions.
Aug 3rd, 2015
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Researchers report insights into the properties of epitaxial hafnium-oxide-based thin films, confirming a stable ferroelectric phase up to 450 C, and revealing a potentially useful device material.
Aug 3rd, 2015
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Sunlight makes the new 'aqueous solar flow' battery 20 percent more efficient than today's lithium-iodine batteries.
Aug 2nd, 2015
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Researchers have created these digital switches by combining graphene and boron nitride nanotubes.
Aug 2nd, 2015
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Scientists have been making nanoparticles for more than two decades in two-dimensional sheets, three-dimensional crystals and random clusters. But they have never been able to get a sheet of nanoparticles to curve or fold into a complex three-dimensional structure. Now researchers have found a simple way to do exactly that.
Aug 2nd, 2015
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Serendipity has as much a place in sci�ence as in love. That's what physi�cists found during their four-year project to modify graphene.
Jul 31st, 2015
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An international group of researchers has shown how nature uses a variety of pathways to grow crystals that go beyond the classical, one-atom-at-a-time route.
Jul 31st, 2015
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Physicists use N-V center optical magnetoscope to understand new magnetic nanomaterials.
Jul 31st, 2015
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A synthetic membrane that self assembles and is easily produced may lead to better gas separation, water purification, drug delivery and DNA recognition, according to an international team of researchers.
Jul 31st, 2015
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Researchers have developed a transparent electrode with high electrical conductivity for solar cells and other optoelectronic components - that uses minimal amounts of material. It consists of a random network of silver nanowires that is coated with aluminium-doped zinc oxide. The novel electrode requires about 70 times less silver than conventional silver grid electrodes, but possesses comparable electrical conductivity.
Jul 31st, 2015
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A new study has shown that high frequency vibrations can cause bricks to self-assemble into a larger 3D object, a finding that may one day help do away with the need for factory assembly lines.
Jul 31st, 2015
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A new imaging tool could do for the brain what the telescope did for space exploration. In the first demonstration of how the technology works, the researchers look inside the brain of an adult mouse at a scale previously unachievable, generating images at a nanoscale resolution.
Jul 31st, 2015
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Scientists detect previously unobserved features of human hair by combining a submicron X-ray beam with cross-section geometry.
Jul 31st, 2015
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Since the electronic properties of an optical storage material change faster than its structure, it could serve new applications.
Jul 31st, 2015
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