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At this time, indium tin oxide (ITO) transparent electrodes are widely used for the creation of electronics such as liquid crystal displays, but a team of researchers has just developed a way of replacing the chemical with a combination of nanomaterials including silver nanowires.
The reason why ITO needs to be rep... |
22 November 2011
16:01 GMT |
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Semiconducting carbon nanotubes could soon make their way into solar panels, printable circuits, stretchable and bendable electronics and inside computer displays, thanks to a new technique developed at Stanford University for increasing the commercial potential this material has.
Carbon nanotubes are already known... |
18 November 2011
07:32 GMT |
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Scientists from the Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) announce the creation of a new type of material, which exhibits little to no friction under a wide variety of conditions. The stuff can repel nearly any type of fluids or liquids.
Members of the research team say that they drew... |
16 November 2011
05:55 GMT |
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Investigators at the Harvard University announce the development of a new type of nanostructures, which they say could be of great potential use for the development of future quantum computers. The team says that a host of other high-tech applications are also possible. The investigation built on previous work, which... |
19 October 2011
03:45 GMT |
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Nanotechnology is currently one of the most investigated areas of science, but yet experts could not tap its full potential until now, due primarily to the fact that they did not know the rules of how to arrange nanoparticles in new materials in an efficient manner. That obstacle has now been removed.
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14 October 2011
16:21 GMT |
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There appears to be no limit to the amount of things graphene can do. The 2D carbon compound was recently demonstrated to be able to harvest energy from flowing water, producing small amounts of electricity. This is an applications that not even its creators envisioned. Though it's unlikely that graphene-based s... |
19 July 2011
08:47 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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Nanoparticles shaped like a disk are the new best way of successfully delivering gene therapy – a treatment aimed at several nucleic acid diseases (DNA or RNA).The biggest challenge of this method is to have the drug reach its target without losing an important amount along the way, also limiting the undesired ... |
13 January 2011
02:18 GMT |
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Healing bone fractures is today a lengthy process, that requires months of rest at home depending on the broken bone, and several months of recovery and physiotherapy afterwards. But what if healing a bone could take considerably less? Experts now create a material that could help do just that. Brown University assoc... |
13 December 2010
06:35 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 newly-developed nanoscale material could one day be used to tell if soldiers affected by a blast wave are at risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), or if they were subjected to traumatic brain injuries following the event. As the Iraq and Afghanistan rage on pointlessly and with little notable de... |
2 December 2010
09:04 GMT |
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A new research funded by DARPA is trying to go even further in micro-technology and create the smallest batteries on Earth.Lithium-ion batteries are everywhere, as they are a major source of power for today's electronic devices – phones, laptops, iPods, etc. but these new batteries will be so small, that t... |
20 October 2010
08:37 GMT |
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Researchers from the Tel Aviv University have found a way of having a 'greener' flat screen TV production, and even medical equipment.Near every house in the modern society has a television set, an during the last few years, everybody wanted The flat screen TV, cheaper and bigger every year, to the detrimen... |
26 August 2010
09:36 GMT |
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Ever since the field of nanotechnology began developing, researchers have recognized the importance that these small particles had in fighting conditions such as cancer. Destroying tumors by using such an approach is possible, but a lot of care needs to be exercised in order to ensure that as little healthy tissue as... |
10 August 2010
03:21 GMT |
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At first glance, introducing nanotechnology into the field of designing and building construction materials may seem like a good idea. Nanoparticles can be used to create self-healing concrete, self-washing windows, as well as a host of other “smart” materials, which are bound to make the lives of constru... |
29 July 2010
03:21 GMT |
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Researchers at the D.J. Sanghvi College of Engineering, in Mumbai, India, wrote in the International Journal of Nuclear Desalination that several nanotechnology water purification techniques are currently being tested, are some are used already. “Water treatment devices that incorporate nanoscale materials are ... |
28 July 2010
10:11 GMT |
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In their quest to improve the capabilities of nanotechnology, scientists have tried out all sorts of methods of producing nanoscale fabrics, as well as artificial tissues, for use in transplants and smart clothes. Thus far, these techniques only recorded minor successes, but a new approach may be exactly what the sci... |
3 June 2010
09:07 GMT |
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Nanoscale structures such as tubes, wires and rods are considered to be the future of many industries, including that of renewable energy and electronics. But difficulties in producing these materials according to precise specifications hinder their wide-scale adoption in these fields. Now, researchers based in the U... |
23 April 2010
03:55 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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New composite materials on the nanoscale have recently been developed by experts at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), and are now ready for test deployment. They will be carried to the low-Earth orbit by the space shuttle Atlantis, during its scheduled November 16 launch. When the spacecraft docks at the Am... |
13 November 2009
10:19 GMT |
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Experts at the University of Texas in Austin (UAT) have recently conducted a scientific experiment in what may very well be the world's smallest test tube, measuring less than one thousandth the width of a human hair, the scientists report. Because of the small size of the tube, the team could only observe what ... |
17 October 2009
04:47 GMT |
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Interactions at a cellular level are the things that drive all living things, according to biologists. All cells need to be able to communicate with the outside world, and the way they do that is by exchanging chemicals through their membranes. Regardless of whether we're talking about a brain cell or a single-c... |
29 September 2009
04:36 GMT |
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Pollution, oil spill, and air contamination are all real problems, as most of you living in large cities know. When it comes to their effect on nature, it can roughly be quantized, simply because there is no way of knowing how much damage an accident such as the Exxon Valdez oil spill caused. Its effects stretch to t... |
9 July 2009
04:57 GMT |
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Certain watery environments are a bit tricky to analyze, especially when talking about the deep sea, or the frozen lakes buried under hundreds of feet of ice. Additionally, when nanoparticles come into play, it's very difficult to distinguish between the effects that other factors have on the water, and the effe... |
7 July 2009
16:41 GMT |
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Electromagnetic nanostructures used in data storage are, at this point, some of the most complex devices in the world, and they make storing information at the nanoscale possible with relative ease. But a tiny grid of the stuff has recently led researchers to a totally unexpected find, namely that they have surprisin... |
2 July 2009
17:01 GMT |
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Over the past few years, nanomaterials have made it into the “mainstream,” in that they are becoming more and more the natural choice when it comes to constructing devices for a wide range of applications, from better electronics to medical implants. As such, experts are now calling for an assessment of h... |
22 June 2009
06:41 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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Nanoscale magnetic vortices are a relatively new find. A vortex is created from electrons spinning in a certain direction, which is also known as a chirality. The process is characteristics of certain materials that exist on a nano scale, and has aroused the interest of physicists from the University of Arkansas, who... |
9 April 2009
10:58 GMT |
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Semiconductor nanomaterials have helped researchers at the University of Miami, led by College of Engineering professor Jizhou Song, devise a new class of electronic equipment, one that will feature, in the future, devices that can bend and twist at very large angles, to benefit a variety of fields. University of Ill... |
22 January 2009
05:14 GMT |
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