A new high-tech membrane is made of high-quality steel and is more stable and more flexible than conventional filters, also more environmentally-compatible because only inert gas and electrical power are needed for its manufacture.
Aug 28th, 2014
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60-year-old problem solved, opening the way to develop new lead-free piezoelectrics.
Aug 28th, 2014
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Silicon has been the most successful material of the 20th century, with major global industries and even a valley named after it. But silicon may be running out of steam for high performance/low power electronics. As silicon strains against the physical limits of performance, could a material like InGaAs provide enough of an improvement over silicon that it would be worth the expense in new equipment lines and training to make the switch worthwhile?
Aug 28th, 2014
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With this major advance, Canada now has the largest boron nitride nanotube production capacity in the world, and a production rate 100 times faster than any earlier technologies.
Aug 28th, 2014
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A professor's research examines 13,000-year-old nanodiamonds from multiple locations across three continents.
Aug 27th, 2014
Read moreNew research has led to a novel molecular system that can take your temperature, emit white light, and convert photon energy directly to mechanical motions.
Aug 27th, 2014
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A new research platform uses a laser to measure the nanomechanical properties of tiny structures undergoing stress and heating, an approach likely to yield insights to improve designs for microelectronics and batteries.
Aug 27th, 2014
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Scientists are developing a more environmentally friendly way to make colored plastics. They are using structure - or the shapes and architectures of materials - rather than dyes, to produce color.
Aug 27th, 2014
Read moreTargeted therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma using nanotechnology.
Aug 27th, 2014
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For many scientists, the discovery of one-atom-thick sheets of graphene is hugely significant, something with the potential to affect just about every aspect of human activity and endeavour.
Aug 27th, 2014
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New program also seeks to develop revolutionary miniaturization and assembly methods that would work at scales 100,000 times smaller than current state-of-the-art technology.
Aug 27th, 2014
Read moreRecent experiments have confirmed that a technique developed several years ago at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) can enable optical microscopes to measure the three-dimensional (3D) shape of objects at nanometer-scale resolution - far below the normal resolution limit for optical microscopy.
Aug 27th, 2014
Read moreOne of nature's mysteries is how plants survive impact by the huge amounts of energy contained in the sun's rays, while using this energy for photosynthesis. The hypothesis is that the light-absorbing proteins in the plant's blades quickly dissipate the energy throughout the entire protein molecule through so-called protein quakes. Researchers have now managed to successfully 'film' this process.
Aug 27th, 2014
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Gadolinium-based material that can be cooled by varying a magnetic field may be useful for cooling low-temperature sensors.
Aug 27th, 2014
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An investigation into switching characteristics provides new criteria for achieving faster switching of magnetic memories.
Aug 27th, 2014
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Researchers have demonstrated that two of these single-layer semiconductor materials can be connected in an atomically seamless fashion known as a heterojunction. This result could be the basis for next-generation flexible and transparent computing, better light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, and solar technologies.
Aug 26th, 2014
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