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A team of engineers and physicists at the Stanford University announce the development of a new technique for welding together crisscrossing meshes of metal nanowires. The group says that shining beams of light on the edges of the diminutive structures is enough to glue them together.
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14 February 2012
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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
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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
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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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For many years, researchers have been wondering why is it that certain microorganisms appeared to be capable of producing electricity while they were cleaning up nuclear wastes and toxic metals. The results of a new investigation finally shed light on the mechanisms involved in this ability.
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7 September 2011
08:32 GMT |
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A group of investigators at the Rice University announces the development of a new type of battery, which is fashioned directly into a nanoscale wire. Scientists in the research group believe that this may very well represent the equivalent of the lithium-ion battery at the small scale. Almost every piece of electron... |
29 July 2011
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A collaboration of researchers at the Stanford University, in the United States, announces the development of a new method of fabrication nanoscale wires. The technique can be used to create nanowires that can be attached to any surface or material. Thus far, these structures were limited in their uses, in the sense ... |
29 July 2011
04:19 GMT |
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A collaboration of investigators at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in Cambridge, announces the development of a new liquid processing methods for controlling the shape of nanoscale wires. This approach could soon allow experts to produce complete electronic devices in one go.This technology only wor... |
14 July 2011
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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
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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
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A team of experts in the United Kingdom has recently demonstrated that it is possible to use discotic liquid crystals (DLC) to produce molecular nanowires. DLC are thin strips of ring-shaped molecules, that can apparently be fashioned into the nanoscale-sized wires, for a wide variety of practical applications. Accor... |
14 October 2010
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Until recently, the concept of electrical circuit has been considered to be an artificial one, with no direct equivalent in nature. In a new study of a bacteria species, this was proven to be wrong. Colonies of the microorganism called Shewanella oneidensis display the same type of properties as electrical circu... |
12 October 2010
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A team of experts believes it may have just developed a way of using nanoscale wires for conducting artificial photosynthesis. If scalable and affordable, the new method could innovate global energy production.The reason why nanowires are used is the fact that they have demonstrated the ability to split water molecul... |
23 September 2010
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A new robot will soon make its way across the surface of the ocean, with the ability to clean up any potential oil slicks it may come across.The machinery was developed by engineers and experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), who were inspired by the BP/Deepwater Horizon ecological disaster.The ma... |
26 August 2010
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Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) announce the development of a new technology that could, in the future, see devices such as pacemakers being powered by a patient's own heart. The innovation is based on zinc oxide nanowires, a class of materials that show great promise for underly... |
4 June 2010
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A group of physicists from the Ohio University, in Athens (OUA), announces the discovery of the world's smallest known superconductor. These are materials that can transport electricity flawlessly, and without loss. Electrons placed inside them keep their flow undisturbed for a very long time, so, superconductor... |
30 March 2010
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Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), in the United States, believe they may have produced the first-ever sensing device at the nanoscale that is capable of being completely autonomous in terms of energy requirements. The instrument can power itself, and is made out of two piezoelectric na... |
29 March 2010
06:03 GMT |
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At this point, nanowire technology counts as one of the most promising in the world, with enormous potential applications for a wide array of fields. Usually made out of alloy materials, these very thin wires can be used in the electronics industry, or for designing new medical tools and new processors. In recent adv... |
22 March 2010
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Researchers at the Harvard University have recently finished developing a new type of diamond-based nanowire devices, which hold great promise for the creation of nanomaterials based on the strong carbon compound. These materials could, in turn, be used in quantum cryptography and computing, as well as imaging method... |
15 February 2010
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Experts announce the development of what they refer to as micro-carpets, arrays of silicon nanorods that could be used as solar cells in the very near future. Their creators reveal that the new structures are so efficient at converting light into electricity that they could lower the price of solar cells based on the... |
15 February 2010
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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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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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One of the main engines of our civilization as we know it is the miniaturization of the transistor, the main gateway inside microprocessors. Over the past couple of decades, the race has been on to produce the smallest, most efficient transistors, and also to fit as many of them as possible in a small space. But, at ... |
10 December 2009
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Scientists at IBM, the Purdue University, and the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) announce the creation of a new generation of ultrasmall transistors and advanced computer processors, which rely solely on the massive improvements made possible by semiconducting nanowires. These small-scale structures a... |
27 November 2009
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Over the past few years, the amount of work that has gone into determining the characteristics of silicon nanowires has increased considerably, mostly because they represent the future of the electronics industry, right next to their carbon nanotube cousins. In their search for ever-smaller technologies, manufacturer... |
12 November 2009
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For a very long time, scientists have dreamed about combining electronics with the human body, and now it would appear that they have succeeded. A group of experts managed to create a type of circuit that essentially dissolved into the human body. The way they accomplished that was by combining thin, flexible silicon... |
3 November 2009
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Future nanodevices will be structures that are extremely small, and that will play a huge host of roles, both in the human body and in the industry. However, in order to make them operational, very small wires, called nanowires, are needed. These structures are made from such materials as gold, silver or, in some... |
30 October 2009
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Nanotechnology is today perhaps the most promising research field in the world. In the future, scientists believe that a large number of innovations will be based on it, ranging from better solar sensors, to better computer and electronics devices, and better treatments for a large number of conditions. However, in o... |
22 October 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
04:47 GMT |
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Nanoscale sensors can be used for a wide variety of applications, in fields such as detecting dangerous molecules, or for sensing sounds in artificial ears. Their main drawback is the fact that they need to be integrated in larger devices, consisting of bulky power sources and integrated circuits, which considerably ... |
29 September 2009
06:40 GMT |
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There is no doubt in any reasonable person's mind that the future of electronics will be entirely based on nanostructures, from wires to switches. Carbon nanotubes are one possible line of development, but their silicon-based counterparts are not far behind, as evidenced by the research conducted by IBM expert F... |
1 September 2009
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While current microprocessor architectures can provide researchers with vast amounts of computational power, there is no doubt that the future of processing is in 3D architectures. Scientists at the Stanford University have recently developed a new way of making that possible, when they have created a method of stack... |
27 August 2009
04:29 GMT |
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According to a new scientific paper published in the latest issue of the respected journal Nature Nanotechnology, it would appear that engineered DNA “origami” tends to self-organize, when placed on silicon substrates. The find could have major implications for the design of better circuits and more advan... |
17 August 2009
08:47 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
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Experts at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have recently managed to create a new class of artificial cells, which behave similarly to nerve cells inside the human brain, and which could in the future be used to create more accurate and efficient interfaces between the cortex of paralyzed patients or... |
11 August 2009
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The “dielectric confinement effect,” first proposed in 1979 by scientist L. V. Keldysh, has finally been confirmed with measurements conducted by a team of researchers from the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), working together with colleagues from the Worcester Polytechnic Instit... |
6 May 2009
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Despite the fact that gallium arsenide is one of the most versatile materials to be used for electronics, a series of challenges prevents the wide-scale introduction of nanowire channels in existing electronic devices. However, all that is about to change, as researchers at the University of Illinois have recently de... |
21 April 2009
03:34 GMT |
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At this point, there's no doubt in the minds of engineers that nanowires are the building material of the future, suited to construct everything from next-generation computer chips to the ominous space elevator to orbit. Still, before these goals become a reality, there are some painstaking details to work out, ... |
3 April 2009
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Research presented on Thursday at the 237th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) hinted at the fact that, in the future, people would no longer have to plug their mobile devices in sockets in order to replenish their power source, but would only wave their hands, go for a walk, or stretch their arm... |
27 March 2009
10:14 GMT |
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Researchers from Georgia Tech are currently working on an invention that may very well change the way in which we generally produce electricity. They are attempting to create a technology that would allow even hamsters to produce electrical current, while running on their little wheels with so much speed. The tiny an... |
10 March 2009
09:55 GMT |
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LEDs have been in our lives for some time now. They are more efficient than any other lighting device before them, can produce any desired color and have a life span much longer than that of light bulbs and fluorescent tubes. However, they are still imperfect. For example, light-emitting diodes currently present on t... |
24 March 2008
09:38 GMT |
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The researchers' obsession for nanotechnology is getting bigger every day, from carbon nanotubes to metamaterials and now industrial-grade nanowires. At the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) a new method for creating nanowires is being tested.Nanowires are tiny metal rods created of rows of ... |
27 October 2007
06:54 GMT |
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Scientists are working on a new type of nanogenerator that could draw the necessary energy from flowing blood in the human body, by using the beating heart and pulsating blood vessels. Once completed, this new cellular engine could find various applications, even beyond medicine.Zhong Lin Wang and colleagues at the ... |
21 July 2007
06:46 GMT |
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Iron-platinum nanorods and nanowires could one day find practical applications in compressed, thus more effective computer memory devices. Building them with uniform shape and magnetic alignment is a key element in creating the next generation of high-density information storage applications.So, far, controlling the... |
23 June 2007
05:30 GMT |
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Rock carving, created by removing parts of a rock surface, are found worldwide and are often (but not always) associated with prehistoric peoples. They are some of the first forms of art and precursors of technology and writing systems.Modern day nanoscopic carvings are an expression of the most modern technologies ... |
19 June 2007
05:55 GMT |
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