An international team of researchers has found a way to store vast amounts of data - up to one petabyte - per square inch. Using information stored in the spin of an electron, the scientists succeeded in storing the information in an organic molecule and reading it at a temperature close to room temperature.
Posted: Feb 1st, 2013
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An old material gets a new name, and with it, topological insulators have another chance to shine. Samarium hexaboride (SmB6) has been around since the late 1960s - but understanding its low temperature behavior has remained a mystery until recently. Experimentalists have recently confirmed that this material is the first true 3D topological insulator.
Posted: Jan 31st, 2013
Read moreNew York University physicists have developed a method for moving microscopic particles with the flick of a light switch. Their work relies on a blue light to prompt colloids to move and then assemble - much like birds flock and move together in flight.
Posted: Jan 31st, 2013
Read moreA new study details the creation of innovative cardiac patches that utilize nanotechnology to enhance the conductivity of materials to induce cardiac tissue formation.
Posted: Jan 31st, 2013
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By cloaking nanoparticles in the membranes of white blood cells, scientists at The Methodist Hospital Research Institute may have found a way to prevent the body from recognizing and destroying them before they deliver their drug payloads.
Posted: Jan 31st, 2013
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Rice University researchers calculate what it would take to make new two-dimensional material.
Posted: Jan 31st, 2013
Read moreA recent discovery funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research may very well lead to a process that not only benefits every uniformed service member of the Department of Defense, but everyone else as well.
Posted: Jan 31st, 2013
Read moreResearchers ave managed to repeatedly and reproducibly switch-on and switch-off an optical cavity at a world-record clock rate of 1.4 THz, or 350 times faster than an electronic switch operates at 4 GHz.
Posted: Jan 31st, 2013
Read moreJust as horses shake off pesky flies by twitching their skin, ships may soon be able to shed the unwanted accumulation of bacteria and other marine growth with the flick of a switch.
Posted: Jan 31st, 2013
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Researchers develop innovative hybrid materials out of plastics and graphene.
Posted: Jan 31st, 2013
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Researchers switch the quantum properties of magnetic molecules.
Posted: Jan 31st, 2013
Read moreSpain has a burgeoning research and commercial nanotechnology environment. A large network, NanoSpain, promotes the exchange of knowledge between Spanish groups working in different fields related to Nanotechnology and Nanoscience increasing collaboration among universities, research institutions and industry.
Posted: Jan 31st, 2013
Read moreBringing together world-class researchers and building prototype monitoring devices are the new nano-bio manufacturing consortium's primary goals.
Posted: Jan 31st, 2013
Read moreThe rate of chemical processes in cells is dictated by the speed of movement (diffusion) of molecules needed for a given reaction. Using a versatile method developed at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences, researchers were able to predict for the first time the diffusion coefficients of all proteins in Escherichia coli. The achievement is important not only for biologists and chemists, but also for... transport companies.
Posted: Jan 31st, 2013
Read moreA new type of order, or symmetry, discovered in an exotic material made with uranium may one day lead to enhanced computer displays and data storage systems and more powerful superconducting magnets for medical imaging and levitating high-speed trains.
Posted: Jan 30th, 2013
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Early results using novel materials and processes achieves milestone toward low-power tunnel transistor electronics.
Posted: Jan 30th, 2013
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