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A group of investigators at the IBM Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, announce the creation of the world's smallest carbon nanotube transistors, a device that measures only 9 nanometers across. That is the equivalent of 9 billionths of a meter. As the drive towards miniaturizing electronics... |
26 January 2012
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A group of investigators based at the US Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory announces the development of a study technique that allows semiconducting carbon nanotubes to identify and track individual molecules through water.
This finding is extremely important due to the massive number of ph... |
11 January 2012
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Using forests of very tiny wires called carbon nanotubes, researchers at the University of Michigan managed to make a nanoscale tank appear invisible in visible light. This particular material was used because it has a very low index of light refraction.
According to the team, the index is about the same as that of ... |
22 November 2011
08:45 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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Explosive devices aren't usually cheap or highly portable, but scientists have recently uncovered a method for building such devices that relies on old-school inkjet printers and has the advantage of coming with some extremely low production costs.This technology was developed by a group of scientists at the Geo... |
31 October 2011
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In a new study, experts determined that a measured of chaos called entropy explains the behavior of water at the nanoscale, where the liquid tends to flow spontaneously through carbon nanotubes. In theory, this should not happen, because the vast network of hydrogen bonds that permeates water is extremely stable. Bre... |
12 August 2011
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A group of investigators at the Rice University, in the United States, announces the development of a new manufacturing technique, that allows them to “amplify” the production of carbon nanotubes. The innovation will play a critical role in developing efficient electric grids in the near future.According ... |
15 July 2011
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A new device created by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in Cambridge, can hold about the same amount of energy as lithium-ion batteries. The device is made up of carbon nanotubes, which can store sunlight as chemical energy.This is an all-new applications for carbon nanotubes (CNT), a ... |
14 July 2011
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Researchers at the University of Florida announce the development of a new type of transistor that is made entirely out of carbon nanotubes (CNT). The innovation could be used to create an advanced generation of TV and computer screens, experts believe. The CNT-based transistor could become the next big thing in TV t... |
29 April 2011
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Scientists at the Harvard University and the MITRE Corporation have managed to built and demonstrate what appears to be the world's first programmable nanoprocessor which measures just 30 nanometres in diameter.
The tiny processor was constructed by assembling together nanocircuits made out of germanium-silic... |
10 February 2011
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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
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A team of investigators in the United States has successfully developed a new type of advanced coating, which has the ability to destroy methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).This microorganism is one of the most dangerous sources of hospital infections, given that it can survive even in the mo... |
30 August 2010
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A group of experts at the Rice University in the United States announces the development of a new method for producing the famous field-effect transistors (FET), the basic units of integrated circuits that make advanced electronic devices possible. The scientists say that they used ink-jet printers to produce thin fi... |
26 May 2010
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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
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Experts have recently identified a never-before-seen phenomenon inside carbon nanotubes, which manifests itself through powerful waves of electricity being discharged from carbon nanotubes. The team of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers that found this strange occurrence named the phenomenon ther... |
8 March 2010
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Carbon nanotubes are, at this point, some of the most promising materials that science is developing. They are very tiny, and yet incredibly strong, and hold great promise for uses in medicine, biology and the electronics industry, among others. However, producing them is a very complex process, which relies on using... |
25 February 2010
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Scientists in Germany and China have recently set forth a new hypothesis, saying that using a special type of carbon nanocables in battery construction could help increase these devices' efficiency and capacity considerably. They add that titanium dioxide (TiO2)-coated carbon nanotubes (CNT) have proven to be ve... |
29 January 2010
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Phase transitions are among the most important natural phenomena that go on inside the large-scale, 3D world. The concept basically refers to the substances' abilities to change states (liquid, gas, solid) without having their chemical composition altered. One good example of this is the water's circuit in ... |
29 January 2010
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Among all the wonders of nature, geckos really stand out for their amazing ability to stick to virtually any surface, regardless of how smooth it is. This is only possible because the animals have millions of microscopic hairs on their feet, which are able to interact with any surface via electrical attractions calle... |
23 January 2010
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The race for advancing miniaturization capabilities in the electronics industry has been on for decades, and undoubtedly considerable progress has been made over the years. But a few years back, it became clear that a new method of constructing microprocessors and their transistors would have to be created, so the na... |
5 January 2010
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According to experts at the Arizona State University (ASU), carbon nanotubes (CNT) could be used to set the basis of a brand-new, extremely fast method of sequencing DNA. At this point, this process is very cumbersome and cost-prohibitive, and research groups around the world have been working on new methods of accom... |
4 January 2010
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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
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Engineers working on rocket propulsion systems realized a few decades ago that chemical reactions would at one point reach a stage in which advancement would do little to increase a delivery system's overall thrust. They began working on new system, which they believed could one day successfully replace oxygen- ... |
9 December 2009
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Using little more than average office paper, a group of scientists has been able to produce batteries that are both printable and moldable. The achievement is very important because it opens the way for production processes, which could see the manufacturing of computers, cell phones and solar panels from this new ma... |
9 December 2009
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Scientists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, the NASA Langley Research Center, and the National Institute of Aerospace have recently announced the development of a new class of materials. Boron-nitride yarns are threads of interlocking fibers at the nanoscale ... |
3 December 2009
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The Hayward, California-based Porifera company is currently working on a new method of using carbon nanotubes for capturing and storing carbon dioxide produced at an industrial scale by smokestacks. This is a goal towards which many research groups around the world are working. Developing a cheap carbon-capture and -... |
30 November 2009
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In spite of the massive amount of work that has been placed into making carbon nanotubes a standard material for our civilization, creating flexible arrays using the nanostructures has proven to be extremely difficult until now. The structures have the ability to innovate, among other things, the display control circ... |
23 November 2009
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Though nanotube technology has been around for a while and it has been touted as one of the paths to significant future development in many fields, the question has always persisted of how the tiny components required to construct nanoscale devices would be handled. When dealing with nanotubes several thousands of ... |
24 August 2009
03:38 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
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Since it was first discovered in 2004, graphene has proven to be one of the most promising new materials in the world, having the potential to be used for new generations of semiconductors and other components of innovative electronic equipment. Now, a group of research institutions has managed to create interconnect... |
11 June 2009
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Up until this point, the golden rule in the industry of memory storing devices was that the greater the density of an information-storing medium, the shorter its durability. Stone tablets hold for millions of years, but hold only limited amounts of information, whereas flash memories hold a lot of data, but can ... |
5 June 2009
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Researchers at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) managed to successfully conclude a new laser-based research recently, having created a prototype nanotube-coated power measurement device for high-precision calibration. The innovation could benefit those laser systems that are now used in the ... |
9 May 2009
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Researchers at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) have just recently created the smallest incandescent light bulb in history, which is about 100,000 times narrower and 10,000 times shorter than the one first designed by Thomas Edison. The filament of the new bulb is only 1.4-micrometer long and approx... |
7 May 2009
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The age when experts will be able to observe and understand the interactions that take place between nanotubes and molecules at a very small level is not as far off as some have feared, an innovation from experts at the Sandia National Laboratories in the US shows. The team has managed to produce a special type of na... |
4 May 2009
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Producing nanoribbons is a very complex and costly effort, and making large amounts of the material is absolutely necessary for conducting large-scale, extensive studies on its properties. Experts believe that the stuff could be the future of electronics and that the potential applications for it are far-reaching. In... |
16 April 2009
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According to Slava Rotkin, an assistant professor of physics at the Lehigh University, modern-day laptops are able to generate heat much faster than a dedicated hotplate, and also at levels comparable to a very small nuclear reactor. This happens because of the ever-increasing numbers of semiconductor electronic circ... |
13 April 2009
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Researchers at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have only recently made a discovery that has the potential to change the way we construct airplanes, ships and cars forever. They have discovered that average, composite-based components from various applications can be made much tougher and less brittle via the use... |
27 March 2009
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Physicists working on ways of building more and more integrated circuits on smaller electronic devices are aware of some simple and undeniable truths, such as that, below a certain point of miniaturization, the forces that are negligible in large-scale electronics have become so strong that they influence the outcome... |
21 March 2009
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Scientists from the University of Texas in Dallas (UT), working together with colleagues around the world, have manged to finally create one of the most interesting and applicable materials to date. They have shaped one of the lightest compounds to have ever been generated, which is less dense than air, into an artif... |
20 March 2009
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Scientists at the Cambridge University may have discovered the key to the hypothetical space elevator – ultra-long and very resistant carbon nanotubes, which can now be grown to impressive lengths, due to innovations in their production methods. Up until this point, creating such long tubes was virtually imposs... |
24 January 2009
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Duke University researchers have managed to modify an existing method of growing very long, straight and aligned carbon nanotubes, in that they can now obtain near-perfect samples of carbon semiconductors, at the billionth-of-a-millimeter scale. This means that future electronic devices will more likely not feature o... |
22 January 2009
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Carbon nanotubes (CNT) are one of the new, emerging technologies for which more and more applications are being discovered and they seem to be one of the things we'll hear about even more in the future. Even though their existence has been discovered some 10 years ago, it is only recently that they have been mor... |
5 November 2008
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The great lift currently developed by Japanese researchers is a dream come true for generations of SF authors, as it will plunge its users 62.000 miles (100.000 km) high into outer space. The cage of the lift requires top-notch technology materials and engineering, as it will slide along 22.000 mile (35.000 km) ... |
24 September 2008
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Usually, nuclear reactors use multiple stages to turn radiation into electrical energy. For example, first, uranium nuclei are split through nuclear fission, when energy is released in the form of heat and additional radiation. The heat resulted from the nuclear reaction is then used to turn water into steam, which i... |
28 March 2008
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Nanotube technology is finally showing its true power by creating the first nanotube radio out of carbon nanotube materials. This represents an important step for the introduction of carbon nanotube structures into the world of analog electronics and applications that derive directly from this branch. The claim is de... |
29 January 2008
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If the previous record holder reflected only about 0.16 percent of the shined light, the newly designed material is at least four times more efficient at absorbing light. Scientists from the Huston University have been successful in creating the darkest material known to man. But what is an ultrablack material? An ul... |
15 January 2008
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Nanotechnology is the way to go, scientists say. As science evolves towards smaller devices, single electron devices are considered one way for computing and other electronic applications and also provide a way to better understand the quantum state in a controllable manner.Researches in Korea might have already foun... |
7 November 2007
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A recent study reveals the nanotubes can be used to create powerful pressure sensors. Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have discovered unique electrical and mechanical properties, during an experiment, while trying to repeatedly squeeze a 3-millimeter nanotube block and found that it was highly suitabl... |
26 October 2007
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A battery is in many cases that which impedes the size of many gadgets and implantable medical devices from dwindling. That's why the battery of the future is lightweight, ultra thin and completely flexible.The battery of the future has just been designed by a team at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The new mo... |
6 September 2007
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Harvesting solar energy is a clever way to make use of a clean and renewable fuel. You don't need to dig the ground for it, there are no pipes and powerplants, and best of all, it's ecological. Unfortunately, existent solar cells are not too efficient and often too expensive.A new development made by resea... |
19 July 2007
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