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Stories about: Janus particles

DU Experts Learn to Control All Aspects of Nanoparticle Movement Future generations of electronic display devices, sensors, and other such items will undoubtedly be based on nanoparticle technology, but one of the major issues that have plagued this field of research until now was the fact that scientists were unable to develop ways of controlling all aspects of their movements. T... 12 August 2009 09:50 GMT Janus Particles Behave Like Tiny Submarines The Janus particle name is given to any microscopic sphere which is composed of two halves that are chemically or physically different. North Carolina State University researchers have demonstrated that while being submerged into a liquid excited by an alternating electrical field, Janus particles start to behave lik... 3 March 2008 06:36 GMT