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UCI Engineer Invents New Method for Analyzing Nanomaterials

A University of California, Irvine engineer has invented a method for analyzing nanowires at temperatures approaching 800 degrees Fahrenheit in first-ever experiments, showing the valuable role the materials could play in converting excess heat from machines and electronics into useable electricity.

14 Jul 2016

Nitride Nanoparticles Can be Used for Solar Water Heating

A research team of Satoshi Ishii, MANA scientist, and Tadaaki Nagao, group leader, Nano-System Photonics Group, International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), NIMS, discovered through numerical calculations that nanoparticles of transition metal nitrides and carbides absorb sunlight very efficiently, and confirmed experimentally that nitride nanoparticles, when dispersed in water, quickly raise water temperature. These nanoparticles may be applied for heating and distillation of water through efficient sunlight use.

14 Jul 2016

Scientists Develop New Basis for Construction of 2D Quasicrystals

Unlike classical crystals, quasicrystals do not comprise periodic units, even though they do have a superordinate structure. The formation of the fascinating mosaics that they produce is barely understood.

14 Jul 2016

Cavity-Enhanced Raman-Scattering Offers Information on Properties and Structure of Carbon Nanotubes

Carbon nanotubes attract a lot of interest in diverse fields such as nanomechanics, photonics, electronics, and quantum optics, as they can be manufactured in a number of properties and shapes, and used in numerous applications. It is important for researchers to have an instrument that could establish these properties in a fast and precise manner.

14 Jul 2016

Development of Carbon-Nanotube Mirrors Underway

Engineers and Scientists at NASA are creating a lightweight telescope to conduct investigations for CubeSat. The unique feature of this telescope is a carbon nanotube mirror embedded in epoxy resin, which may make it the first of its kind.

14 Jul 2016

Springer Nature and Tsinghua University Press present the Third Nano Research Award

Peidong Yang honored for his outstanding contributions to nanowire-related science and technology in the field of artificial photosynthesis

14 Jul 2016

Engineered Silicon Dioxide Nanoparticles Tested for Cooling Electronic Gadgets

Researcher Baratunde Cola wants to add “sand” into computers in order to cool them. Not beach sand, but silicon dioxide nanoparticles coated with a high dielectric constant polymer, which would provide improved cooling at a low cost for high-energy electronic devices.

13 Jul 2016

Nanosystem and Digital Surf launch NanoMap Alpha

Global leader in non-contact 3D measurement and inspection, Nanosystem today announced the release of NanoMap Alpha software based on Digital Surf’s industry-standard Mountains® software platform.

13 Jul 2016

Imec and ARM collaborate on Design-Technology Co-Optimization for 7nm technology and beyond

World-leading nanoelectronics research center imec has signed a strategic partnership with ARM, the company whose semiconductor IP technologies enable a third of all intelligent digital goods sold each year. ARM&rsquo...

From IMEC 13 Jul 2016

Rensas Electronics Adopts Cadence Interconnect Workbench to Improve On-Chip Interconnect Performance

Cadence Design Systems, Inc., today announced that Renesas Electronics Corporation has adopted the Cadence® Interconnect Workbench (IWB) to accelerate performance analysis and verification of their on-chip interconnects by up to 50 percent.

12 Jul 2016

Kennesaw State Researchers Fabricate Delicate Solar Cells

A humming laboratory is birthing tiny solar cells – the first such devices created on campus – as Kennesaw State researchers strive to develop better photovoltaic technologies.

12 Jul 2016

Technion Breakthrough in Carbon Nanotubes Could Help Replace Silicon Chips in Various Electronic Devices

Technion researchers have developed a method for growing carbon nanotubes that could lead to the day when molecular electronics replace the ubiquitous silicon chip as the building block of electronics. The findings are published this week in Nature Communications.

12 Jul 2016

Researchers Use Advanced Tools to Exploit Atomic, Molecular Properties of Matter at Pritzker Nanofabrication Facility

Academic and industrial researchers have begun working side-by-side at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker Nanofabrication Facility, using some of the world’s most advanced tools to exploit the atomic and molecular properties of matter for emerging applications in science and technology.

12 Jul 2016

New Nanotechnology-Based Tattoo Could be Used for Various Commercial, Medical Applications

A new temporary "electronic tattoo" developed by Tel Aviv University that can measure the activity of muscle and nerve cells researchers is poised to revolutionize medicine, rehabilitation, and even business and marketing research.

12 Jul 2016

Silk-Based Microfluidic Device Shows Potential for Implantable Devices, Drug Testing

Scientists have developed a unique silk-based tissue chip that can be used extensively for drug testing and can better represent human tissues, compared to the present generation of chips. This silk gel chip enabled the research team to prevent most of the issues associated with current devices and could even be used as an implantable treatment in the future.

12 Jul 2016

Nanotechnology News

UCI Engineer Invents New Method for Analyzing Nanomaterials

Nitride Nanoparticles Can be Used for Solar Water Heating

Scientists Develop New Basis for Construction of 2D Quasicrystals

Cavity-Enhanced Raman-Scattering Offers Information on Properties and Structure of Carbon Nanotubes

Development of Carbon-Nanotube Mirrors Underway

Springer Nature and Tsinghua University Press present the Third Nano Research Award

Engineered Silicon Dioxide Nanoparticles Tested for Cooling Electronic Gadgets

Nanosystem and Digital Surf launch NanoMap Alpha

Imec and ARM collaborate on Design-Technology Co-Optimization for 7nm technology and beyond

Rensas Electronics Adopts Cadence Interconnect Workbench to Improve On-Chip Interconnect Performance

Kennesaw State Researchers Fabricate Delicate Solar Cells

Technion Breakthrough in Carbon Nanotubes Could Help Replace Silicon Chips in Various Electronic Devices

Researchers Use Advanced Tools to Exploit Atomic, Molecular Properties of Matter at Pritzker Nanofabrication Facility

New Nanotechnology-Based Tattoo Could be Used for Various Commercial, Medical Applications

Silk-Based Microfluidic Device Shows Potential for Implantable Devices, Drug Testing

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