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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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