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3D bioprinter uses carbon nanotube enhanced cellulose

Researchers have managed to print and dry three-dimensional objects made entirely by cellulose for the first time with the help of a 3D-bioprinter. They also added carbon nanotubes to create electrically conductive material.

Jun 17th, 2015

Successors to FinFET for 7nm and beyond to be presented

At this week's VLSI 2015 Symposium in Kyoto, imec reported new results on nanowire FETs and quantum-well FinFETs towards post-FinFET multi-gate device solutions.

Jun 17th, 2015

Renewable energy from evaporating water (w/video)

Scientists report the development of two novel devices that derive power directly from evaporation - a floating, piston-driven engine that generates electricity causing a light to flash, and a rotary engine that drives a miniature car.

Jun 16th, 2015

Graphene heat-transfer riddle unraveled

Researchers have solved the long-standing conundrum of how the boundary between grains of graphene affects heat conductivity in thin films of the miracle substance - bringing developers a step closer to being able to engineer films at a scale useful for cooling microelectronic devices and hundreds of other nano-tech applications.

Jun 16th, 2015

Nanoparticles naturally fall into left- and right-handed versions

Researchers published first experimental results showing that ordinary nanocrystals possess intrinsic chirality and can be produced under normal conditions as a half-and-half mixture of mirror images of each other.

Jun 16th, 2015

Efficient conversion from spin currents to charge currents in a superconductor

Paving the way to future superconducting spintronics devices.

Jun 16th, 2015

Support morphology affects nanoparticle adsorption

Scientists have discovered an intriguing phenomenon in adsorption properties of nanoparticles.

Jun 16th, 2015

Rayleigh scattering reveals light propagation in optical nanfibers

Researchers have developed a new technique for visualizing light propagation through an optical nanofiber. The result is a non-invasive measurement of the fiber size and shape and a real-time view of how light fields evolve along the nanofiber.

Jun 16th, 2015

Diamonds are for temperature

Luminescent signals from green glowing diamond defects could monitor temperature in a range of physical and biological systems with unprecedented versatility.

Jun 16th, 2015

Electrospun delivery vehicle for bioactive compounds in food nanotechnology

New research outlines how the creation of nanofibres could provide new and improved products and delivery systems for supplementary foodstuffs.

Jun 16th, 2015

Theory turns to reality for nonlinear optical metamaterials (w/video)

A research team has realized one of the long-standing theoretical predictions in nonlinear optical metamaterials: creation of a nonlinear material that has opposite refractive indices at the fundamental and harmonic frequencies of light. Such a material, which doesn't exist naturally, had been predicted for nearly a decade.

Jun 16th, 2015

Transparent, stretchable conductors with a nano-accordion structure design

Researchers have created stretchable, transparent conductors that work because of the structures' 'nano-accordion' design. The conductors could be used in a wide variety of applications, such as flexible electronics, stretchable displays or wearable sensors.