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Experts at the Rice University say that imperfect carbon nanotubes are the most likely to exhibit dips in brightness when viewed by external observers. Perfect CNT displays are the brightest, a trait that could be very useful in applications such as advanced sensors.
Length and imperfections were found to be the tw... |
31 January 2012
17:11 GMT |
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Scientists with Aneeve Nanotechnologies announce the development of a low-cost, ink-jet printing technology that could make the production of organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) a lot faster and cheaper. The method was optimized to use carbon nanotubes.
The company is based on the California NanoSystems Institute ... |
1 December 2011
09:24 GMT |
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Stacking DNA and carbon nanotubes onto a biosensor electrode could lead to the development of more advanced, high-precision devices capable of accurately measuring indicators left behind in the human body by conditions such as diabetes.
The team of investigators – which is based at the Purdue University &ndas... |
15 November 2011
10:12 GMT |
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The US Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded experts at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) a $4.5 million (€3.26 million), four-year grant for the development of advanced types of carbon nanotubes (CNT).
These tiny constructs have tremendously complex applications in anything from optics and m... |
3 November 2011
06:40 GMT |
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In order to develop an excellent way of searching for carbon nanotubes, investigators at the Lehigh University are using both a total internal reflection fluorescence microscope (TIRFM) and an atomic-force microscope (AFM) to find these structures in a wide variety of materials.
This is made difficult by the fact... |
29 October 2011
14:01 GMT |
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Using a new approach to controlling carbon nanotubes, researchers at the Stanford University have recently created a new type of transparent, skin-like sensor. The device can be stretched by a wide margin without losing its properties.
According to the research team, the sensor can be stretched up to twice is orig... |
25 October 2011
02:34 GMT |
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University of British Columbia (UBC) researchers announce the creation of a new type of artificial muscles, which they say are just as flexible as an elephant's trunk. At the same time, the constructs are capable of rotating about 1,000 times their own weight. The UBC team was in charge of coordinating a large... |
14 October 2011
14:01 GMT |
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Stanford University associate professor of materials science and engineering Yi Cui and his team were recently able to develop a superior rechargeable lithium battery cathode, a device which they say contains carbon nanofibers that are hollow on the inside, and coated with sulfur.
In addition, a new electrolyte a... |
5 October 2011
15:01 GMT |
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Investigators at the Brown University say that carbon nanotubes (CNT) can interact with living cells in a negative manner, harming the latter. This research is part of a wider effort meant to gage the influence of nanotechnology on living organisms.
In addition to CNT, other long, nanoscale materials cause the sam... |
19 September 2011
03:36 GMT |
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A group of researchers at the Rice University has developed a new type of carbon nanotube-based wire that can be used to power line-voltage light bulbs. With this achievement, the goal of replicating electrical conductivities seen in metal wires via nanotubes gets inches closer to reality.
The team behind the stu... |
7 September 2011
10:02 GMT |
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A group of physicists at the Rice University announces the completion of an advanced energy-storage device, a supercapacitor that is based on nanotubes. The instrument shows tremendous potential for use in extreme environments, which may include other worlds. Currently, a massive international research effort is taki... |
23 August 2011
03:17 GMT |
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A collaboration of researchers in the United States announces the development of a new instrument for treating heart attack victims. The device is a patch made out of carbon nanotubes (CNT), and its effects are very beneficial to patients, the team behind the study reveals. Working together with colleagues in India, ... |
20 May 2011
09:12 GMT |
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Since it was first discovered, less than six years ago, graphene has become one of the most heavily-researched materials in the world. Now, experts at the Cambridge University will conduct a study that will prepare the stage for a €1 billion research into the amazing compound.Scientists have a lot of reasons to ... |
5 May 2011
08:08 GMT |
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Reproducing the functions of neurons is impossible without the creation of inter-neural links called synapses. Recently, experts in the United States announced the creation of the first artificial synapses, in an advancement that could lead to the development of the first synthetic brain. In order to obtain the artif... |
22 April 2011
04:55 GMT |
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Nanocomposite materials have been receiving a lot of attention lately, and that is starting to show in innovations produced at leading universities. One such innovation comes from Rice University experts, who created a material that becomes more resistant the more you abuse it. This trait can be found in the human bo... |
24 March 2011
09:19 GMT |
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Composite materials have began to make their way into a wide variety of industries over the past few years, changing manufacturing methods, and allowing the creation of more advanced technologies. But they do have their dangers, and now experts made an important step in reducing the risk of using them.One important a... |
24 March 2011
06:44 GMT |
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According to the results of a new scientific study, it would appear that carbon nanotubes (CNT) can be successfully used to reduce the severity of the effects generally caused in the human brain by stroke. The investigators who conducted the new work say that such an adverse event causes an interruption in the supp... |
31 January 2011
01:56 GMT |
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Investigators at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), in Greenbelt, Maryland, are currently working hard on developing a material that is blacker than pitch, in a bid to forward investigations capabilities for detecting unseen cosmic objects. One of the primary motives driving the new work is the need to coll... |
7 December 2010
11:05 GMT |
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A group of investigators from the United States announces the development of a new method for boosting the near-infrared fluorescence level of single-walled carbon nanotube, that only involves adding a little bit of ozone to the mix. Just tiny batches of the compound allow for entire groups of carbon nanotubes to be ... |
3 December 2010
09:55 GMT |
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Scientists have been fascinated with carbon nanotubes ever since the material was first obtained, and they have been looking for cheaper and more effective was of producing it ever since. Now, researchers at MIT managed to do just that, while at the same time making the process a lot more environmentally-friendly.Nan... |
10 November 2010
07:08 GMT |
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An international collaboration of experts has recently developed a new type of miniature fuel cell that is capable of using biological fluids to generate electricity. The work could become very important in the near future, as experts create more advanced medical biosensors.The science team that produced the fuel cel... |
29 October 2010
09:18 GMT |
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A team of scientists from the United States has recently developed a new method for improving the speed of ions, that allows for the charged atoms to move faster than between conventional electrodes.The work was conducted in labs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Pennsylvania State University... |
8 October 2010
13:01 GMT |
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The field of electronics along with a host of industry representatives and healthcare experts admit that nanoparticles are most likely the materials of the future. These small structures, measuring only billionths of a meter in size, can be used to deliver drugs, create more efficient electronics, and produce cotton ... |
12 April 2010
07:05 GMT |
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In a finding that could promote research in the field of medicine, and also allow for new applications for carbon nanotubes, researchers from Sweden and the United States have managed to prove for the first time that CNT can indeed be broken down in the human body and in nature. The discovery is very important, as it... |
6 April 2010
16:41 GMT |
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Scientists from the University of California in San Diego (UCSD), led by expert Joseph Wang, have recently developed nanoscale motors that are capable of being propelled through liquids using solely electric fields. The machines essentially have no onboard propulsion systems, which means that they could be used for a... |
10 February 2010
06:30 GMT |
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There is undoubtedly a large variety of applications that nanotubes could fulfill, if only they were practical to produce in large masses. From space elevators to nanoscale, 3D computer processors, and from electrical transmission lines to new drugs, the nanotubes are clearly the way of the future. However, at the en... |
21 December 2009
06:18 GMT |
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Scientists at the Stanford University announce the development of the first three-dimensional, carbon nanotube-based circuits in the world. This groundbreaking achievement marks a milestone in the industry, as it means that CNT-based computers, which will consume a lot less power, and also be far faster than the exis... |
18 December 2009
10:58 GMT |
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Scientists at the University of California in San Diego (UCSD) have recently discovered that defects that are artificially induced in carbon nanotubes (CNTs) may have the ability to significantly boost research in the field of supercapacitors. The scientists behind the innovation explain that these devices incorporat... |
20 November 2009
02:48 GMT |
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Scientists from a number of departments at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have recently announced the development of a new structure, which combines the “talent” that DNA has for self-assembly with the amazing chemical and physical properties of carbon nanotubes (CNT). The nanoscale elec... |
11 November 2009
09:21 GMT |
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Carbon nanotubes are among the most promising materials under investigation today, having the ability to set the foundation for a large number of innovations, ranging from new medicines to communication grids and space elevators. Only one problem plagued this field of research, and that was the maximum attainable len... |
10 November 2009
10:45 GMT |
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As carbon-nanotube technology progresses, it becomes clearer each day that these materials will most likely constitute the foundation of tomorrow's society. They will be used in just about everything, from sports equipment to computer processors and next-generation electronic devices, but experts are still conce... |
26 October 2009
03:42 GMT |
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Carbon nanotubes (CNT) are among the most promising new materials around at this point. They exhibit amazing chemical and physical properties, and could be of tremendous use in future, electronic devices. A large number of research groups is looking into customizing their properties, as it became obvious that they co... |
2 October 2009
08:51 GMT |
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Carbon nanotubes (CNT) are now among the most heavily researched materials in the world, due to the promise they hold in furthering research in a large number of fields, from computer sciences to medicine. They could also be used in electronic noses (bomb, drug and hazardous-gas detectors), as well as in devices able... |
21 September 2009
02:45 GMT |
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One of the most severe limitations of chemistry today is the fact that experts cannot, for example, mix two highly reactive compounds together until they are sure they want the reaction to proceed. In other words, they cannot place two such substances in a mix, and then trigger the reaction between them at will. Thro... |
21 September 2009
01:52 GMT |
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According to experts at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), positioning and manipulating tiny carbon nanotubes is one of the last standing major issues that need tackling in the field of nanotechnology. Integrated nanoelectronic and photonic circuits, nanosensors, interconnects and electro-mechanical ... |
16 September 2009
06:01 GMT |
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Severe disorders such as epilepsy, Parkinson's disease and perhaps even paralysis could be cured with nanoparticle-based treatments in the future. The tiny structures were recently proven to be able to assist human nervous tissue in regrowing, following accidents, and also showed a remarkable ability to carry dr... |
28 August 2009
19:41 GMT |
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Lithium-ion batteries have over the past few years became the best choice for most consumer applications such as laptop and mobile phone batteries. The rate at which they are constantly improved has started to decline, mostly because the existing manufacturing technology has reached its limits. But experts at the Sta... |
14 August 2009
01:36 GMT |
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Does Microsoft dream of a 62,000-mile elevator ride, from the Earth into space? Well, it should come as no surprise that the answer is “Yes!” Some of you might have guessed that I attempted to reference Philip K. Dick's “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” and fact is that a space eleva... |
11 August 2009
11:05 GMT |
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Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recently devised a method of producing carbon nanotubes that does not involve the use of regular metals, which appear to be interfering with materials found in circuits and composites. Nanotubes hold great promise for future electronic devices, and so de... |
11 August 2009
10:07 GMT |
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Carbon nanotubes have long been touted as a very promising material in areas such as engineering and computer sciences, but it now seems that medicine has good uses for them as well. A large collaboration of scientists at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, the Wake Forest University Center for Nanotechnol... |
4 August 2009
05:47 GMT |
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Since carbon nanotubes (CNT) were first created, experts have realized that their future applications are in areas beyond electronics as well, including in designing, for example, cables to hold a space elevator. Among development leaders in this technology is Rice University professor and chemist Bob Hauge, who is t... |
30 July 2009
04:00 GMT |
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X-rays have been identified as one of the most energetic forms of light in the Universe over the years, and their power has been harnessed to create scanners in airports and radiotherapy. However, it's only now that their true power is starting to be tapped into, researchers announce. Scientists at the Universi... |
29 July 2009
01:51 GMT |
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Experts from the Rice University, in the US, and the Universite Lyon1/CNRS, in France, have recently released the first videos depicting the atom-by-atom growth of carbon nanotubes. Much to their amazement, they noticed that, as individual atoms were added to the nanoscale constructs, the entire structure rotated, in... |
28 July 2009
03:57 GMT |
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Detecting bacteria using existing techniques in the laboratory at this point takes at least two days to perform. The samples are first enriched, then separated, identified and counted, and the entire process just takes up a lot of resources and time. With the help of a new biosensor, this type of analysis may soon be... |
20 July 2009
14:01 GMT |
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Despite having a “unitary” sound to their names, carbon nanotubes (CNT) can actually be of varied compositions and structures, as determined by their electronic properties. However, when they are produced in bulk, many types of CNT are generated in the same space, and disentangling something that is a few... |
9 July 2009
05:45 GMT |
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A lot of people have thankfully heard of carbon nanotubes in recent years, and most of them know that they are incredibly small constructs, built at the nanoscale, and which are made of single layers of carbon atoms, stuck together in the shape of tubes. But not many people know that these tubes, also known as buckyt... |
8 July 2009
16:21 GMT |
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Hydrogen is, at this point, the leading source of alternative fuel in the world. Its potential to power up the cars and vehicles of tomorrow is only limited by the fact that there are currently no materials able to hold vast amounts of hydrogen. This is necessary for giving the vehicles a range similar to that they h... |
24 June 2009
03:17 GMT |
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Rather than trying to devise complicated and very expensive graphene production processes, or novel ways of producing large amounts of carbon nanotubes, researchers at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) have created a new compound, which is a lot faster and easier to produce, and also takes the best o... |
14 May 2009
05:33 GMT |
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Researchers at the University of Glasgow (UG) recently took the first place in the race to construct the world's smallest diamond transistor, when they constructed one only 50 nanometers in length. The new device is the work of UG Department of Electronics & Electrical Engineering expert Dr. David Moran and his ... |
15 April 2009
08:21 GMT |
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Recent research done in Italy and Switzerland shows that carbon nanotubes may be the best bet in the attempt to engineer an artificial brain, mostly because of their chemical and electrical properties, which closely resemble those of human neurons. The complete study was published on December 21st, in the on-line iss... |
22 December 2008
07:08 GMT |
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