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Beyond silicon: Transistors without semiconductors
Michigan Tech scientists made a quantum-tunneling device, which acts like a transistor at room temperature, without using semiconducting materials.
Posted: Jun 21st, 2013
Read moreAtomically-flat transistors show promise for next generation green electronics
Researchers demonstrate first n-type field effect transistors on monolayer tungsten diselenide with record performance.
Posted: Jun 21st, 2013
Read moreFerroelectric-graphene-based system could lead to improved information processing
New system uses two-dimensional structures to guide plasmonic waves at ultrashort wavelength, offering a new platform for memory and computer chips.
Posted: Jun 21st, 2013
Read moreLight and nanoprobes detect early signs of infection
Duke University biomedical engineers and genome researchers have developed a proof-of-principle approach using light to detect infections before patients show symptoms.
Posted: Jun 20th, 2013
Read moreResearchers develop a method for the rapid preparation of graphene oxide
Researchers have found that the microwave irradiation of natural graphite flakes before the oxidation step improved the efficiency of the oxidation process. This facile method provides a greater amount of GO compared with the original Hummers' method.
Posted: Jun 20th, 2013
Read moreWearable electronics - Highly conductive textiles and paper with aluminum
Jackets with built-in mobile phones, sports clothes that warn you when your heart rate gets too high, wallpaper with glowing patterns - these are not concepts from a science fiction movie, some of them are actually already available, and they may soon become commonplace.
Posted: Jun 20th, 2013
Read moreParticle accelerator that can fit on a tabletop opens new chapter for science research
Tabletop device achieves energy and focus that has previously required a conventional accelerator that stretches more than the length of 2 football fields.
Posted: Jun 20th, 2013
Read moreFirst class of nanoengineering graduates at UCSD ready to solve technology's most challenging problems
What is a nanoengineer? It's a question nearly 20 seniors, who, this June, earned the first bachelor's degree in nanoengineering offered at the University of California, San Diego, have learned to answer as they tackle the questions and expectations of their parents and potential employers.
Posted: Jun 20th, 2013
Read moreNanotechnology research to advance optical computing
A research team at Swinburne University of Technology has overcome a fundamental law of optical science that could lead to faster and more energy-efficient optical computing.
Posted: Jun 20th, 2013
Read moreDeveloping new techniques for the production of metallic nanoparticles
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is developing new techniques for the production of metallic nanoparticles. VTT's new production reactor, operating at atmospheric pressure, reduces the production costs of multicomponent particles. It enables the production of metallic nanomaterials, which are not yet commercially available, for research and product development needs.
Posted: Jun 20th, 2013
Read moreNanotechnology researchers use graphene in nanoelectronic chip breakthrough
Electronic components built from single molecules using chemical synthesis could pave the way for smaller, faster and more green and sustainable electronic devices. Now for the first time, a transistor made from just one molecular monolayer has been made to work where it really counts. On a computer chip.
Posted: Jun 20th, 2013
Read moreCarbon nanotube harpoon catches individual brain-cell signals
Neuroscientists may soon be modern-day harpooners, snaring individual brain-cell signals instead of whales with tiny spears made of carbon nanotubes.
Posted: Jun 20th, 2013
Read moreResearchers use graphene nanosheets to fabricate electroconductive textiles
Researchers used graphene nanosheets to design and fabricate electroconductive fibers in which the amount of conductivity can be adjusted.
Posted: Jun 19th, 2013
Read moreUnexpected behaviour of well-known catalysts
Industrial palladium-copper catalysts change their structures before they get to work, already during the activation process. As a result, the reaction is catalysed by a catalyst that is different from the one originally prepared for it.
Posted: Jun 19th, 2013
Read moreSound waves precisely position nanowires
The smaller components become, the more difficult it is to create patterns in an economical and reproducible way, according to an interdisciplinary team of Penn State researchers who, using sound waves, can place nanowires in repeatable patterns for potential use in a variety of sensors, optoelectronics and nanoscale circuits.
Posted: Jun 19th, 2013
Read moreNanotechnology researchers use wood to make batteries (w/video)
A sliver of wood coated with tin could make a tiny, long-lasting, efficient and environmentally friendly battery.
Posted: Jun 19th, 2013
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