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Power sources for flexible, stretchable electronics
Electronic devices become smaller, lighter, faster and more powerful with each passing year. Currently, however, electronics such as cell phones, tablets, laptops, etc., are rigid. But what if they could be made bendable or stretchy?
Posted: Dec 12th, 2012
Read moreChemical link for hearing and balance found that could aid deafness and vertigo treatments
Researchers have mapped the precise 3-D atomic structure of a thin protein filament critical for cells in the inner ear and calculated the force necessary to pull it apart.
Posted: Dec 12th, 2012
Read moreCapturing circulating cancer cells could provide insights into how disease spreads
A glass plate with a nanoscale roughness could be a simple way for scientists to capture and study the circulating tumor cells that carry cancer around the body through the bloodstream.
Posted: Dec 11th, 2012
Read moreResearchers cultivate green batteries from plant
Extract of madder plant works as environmentally friendly lithium-ion cathode.
Posted: Dec 11th, 2012
Read morePaving the way for intelligent item-level RFID tagging to replace bar codes
World-first UHF IGZO Schottky diode is breakthrough achievement towards low-cost passive thin-film RFID tags.
Posted: Dec 11th, 2012
Read moreHybrid approach sheds light on crystal structure solution
Researchers combine computational and experimental methods to understand the arrangement of atoms in solids.
Posted: Dec 11th, 2012
Read moreThe path towards beyond-silicon devices
At this week's IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM 2012), imec addressed key challenges of scaling beyond silicon-channel finFETs.
Posted: Dec 11th, 2012
Read moreNanotechnology alternative to fullerenes in organic solar cells - just as exciting
An insight into the properties of fullerene is set to open the door to a new class of electronic acceptors which can be used to build better and cheaper organic solar cells.
Posted: Dec 11th, 2012
Read moreSpace-age ceramics get their toughest test
Berkeley Lab researchers develop real-time CT-scan test rig for ceramic composites at ultrahigh temperatures.
Posted: Dec 11th, 2012
Read moreThe Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology welcomes its first 9-year old 'scientist'
Today, the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology partnered with Make-A-Wish Foundation Singapore to make a young girl's dream come true.
Posted: Dec 11th, 2012
Read moreNAND Flash technology scales further with ultra-thin hybrid floating gate cell
Imec announces that it has developed an ultra-thin hybrid floating gate cell with demonstrated functionality.
Posted: Dec 11th, 2012
Read moreDo we live in a computer simulation? Researchers say idea can be tested
A decade ago, a British philosopher put forth the notion that the universe we live in might in fact be a computer simulation run by our descendants. While that seems far-fetched, perhaps even incomprehensible, a team of physicists at the University of Washington has come up with a potential test to see if the idea holds water.
Posted: Dec 10th, 2012
Read moreResearchers reveal structure of carbon's 'Hoyle State'
A North Carolina State University researcher has taken a "snapshot" of the way particles combine to form carbon-12, the element that makes all life on Earth possible. And the picture looks like a bent arm.
Posted: Dec 10th, 2012
Read moreCarbon nanotubes lower nerve-damaging chloride in cells
A nanomaterial engineered by researchers at Duke can help regulate chloride levels in nerve cells that contribute to chronic pain, epilepsy, and traumatic brain injury.
Posted: Dec 10th, 2012
Read moreSelf-assembled monolayers create p-n junctions in graphene films
A low temperature, controllable and stable method has been developed to dope graphene films using self-assembled monolayers (SAM) that modify the interface of graphene and its support substrate.
Posted: Dec 10th, 2012
Read moreNanoscale compound semiconductor transistor could challenge silicon's dominance
MIT researchers develop the smallest indium gallium arsenide transistor ever built.
Posted: Dec 10th, 2012
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