Scientists succeeded in the production of silver nanoparticles through a new green method, a combination of modified and microbial polysaccharide methods.
Posted: Oct 25th, 2012
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Researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology have developed on-chip optomechanical sensors for atomic force microscopy (AFM) that extend the range of mechanical properties found in commercial AFM cantilevers, potentially enabling the use of this technology to study a wide variety of physical systems.
Posted: Oct 24th, 2012
Read moreScientists have utilized the imaging capabilities of the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) to help develop enhanced light-emitting diode displays using bottom-up engineering methods.
Posted: Oct 24th, 2012
Read moreMulticellular bacteria transmit electrons across relatively enormous distances.
Posted: Oct 24th, 2012
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A University of Southampton team have discovered that by embossing tiny raised or indented patterns onto gold's surface they can change the way it absorbs and reflects light - ensuring our eyes don't see it as golden in color at all.
Posted: Oct 24th, 2012
Read moreLouisiana Tech University's College of Engineering and Science will host industry leaders from throughout the region as well as faculty experts from Louisiana Tech at the 'Nanotechnology for Louisiana' conference, November 9 at the Louisiana Tech Shreveport Center in Shreveport.
Posted: Oct 24th, 2012
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One-dimensional behaviour produces surprising effect.
Posted: Oct 24th, 2012
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Glucose-amine rings turn star-shaped fluorescent dyes into powerful probes for imaging cancer cells in three dimensions.
Posted: Oct 24th, 2012
Read moreReducing information stored in magnetic thin films to the physical size of single grains could improve computer hard drives.
Posted: Oct 24th, 2012
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The temperature-controlled alignment of tiny crystals could help harness their collective properties for nanotechnology applications.
Posted: Oct 24th, 2012
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University of California, Davis, researchers for the first time have looked inside gallium manganese arsenide, a type of material known as a "dilute magnetic semiconductor" that could open up an entirely new class of faster, smaller devices based on an emerging field known as spintronics.
Posted: Oct 23rd, 2012
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Researchers at UC Santa Barbara designed a 'smart' material made of DNA that responds with movement when stimulated.
Posted: Oct 23rd, 2012
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The result is gold nanostructures with superior abilities that can be built into monitoring equipment to sense the presence of chemical and biological pollutants. They are 36 times more sensitive than current commercial sensing substrates.
Posted: Oct 23rd, 2012
Read moreFor the first time, an assembly of thousands of nano-machines capable of producing a coordinated contraction movement extending up to around ten micrometers, like the movements of muscular fibers, has been synthesized by a CNRS team from the Institut Charles Sadron.
Posted: Oct 23rd, 2012
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Researchers at Aalto University have succeeded in developing a durable and affordable nanofibrillar cellulose film platform to support medical testing. New environmentally friendly, reliable nanofibrillar cellulose (NFC) platforms are more diverse than plastic films.
Posted: Oct 23rd, 2012
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Studies of the effects of stacking order on graphene are in relative infancy, but recent experiments from scientists working at the National Synchrotron Light Source at Brookhaven National Laboratory have shed light on the chameleonic nature of this material.
Posted: Oct 23rd, 2012
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