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Novel Carbon Thin Film Deposition Method Provides Energy Storage Capability to Microchips

After more than half a decade of speculation, fabrication, modeling and testing, an international team of researchers led by Drexel University’s Yury Gogotsi, PhD , and Patrice Simon, PhD, of Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse, France, have confirmed that their process for making carbon films and micro-supercapacitors will allow microchips and their power sources to become one and the same.

12 Feb 2016

Breakthrough Method Paves Way for Development of Tunable Lens Arrays

Have you ever noticed that when heated a film of oil in a pan doesn’t remain completely flat? Instead, it forms a wavy pattern that resembles the exterior of an orange. These sorts of deformations inspired a group of researchers at the Technical University of Darmstadt, in Germany, to explore whether they could be used to improve and streamline microfabrication processes.

12 Feb 2016

Nanolaser Developed by TUM Physicists Helps Cost-Effectively Fabricate High-Performance Photonic Components

Physicists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a nanolaser, a thousand times thinner than a human hair. Thanks to an ingenious process, the nanowire lasers grow right on a silicon chip, making it possible to produce high-performance photonic components cost-effectively. This will pave the way for fast and efficient data processing with light in the future.

12 Feb 2016

Retractable Protein Nanoneedles to Break Cell Barriers

The ability to control the transfer of molecules through cellular membranes is an important function in synthetic biology; a new study from researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and Harvard Medical School (HMS) introduces a novel mechanical method for controlling release of molecules inside cells.

12 Feb 2016

Development of Nanowire Lasers Could Open New Research Frontier for Optoelectronics

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley have found a simple new way to produce nanoscale wires that can serve as tiny, tunable lasers.

12 Feb 2016

Researchers Make Breakthrough in Understanding of Graphene’s Basic Properties

Graphene is going to change the world — or so we’ve been told.

12 Feb 2016

Researchers Use Linac Coherent Light Source to Image Exploding Nanoparticles

Photographers capture high-speed motion using cameras with a split-second shutter speed feature. Similar to these photographers, scientists examine very small materials using specific instruments, which are capable of seeing changes that occur in the blink of an eye.

11 Feb 2016

Research Team Uses Light Reflection of Interface Nanostructures for Non-Toxic Ink Printing

From dot-matrix to 3-D, printing technology has come a long way in 40 years. But all of these technologies have created hues by using dye inks, which can be taxing on the environment. Now a team reports in ACS Nano the development of a colorless, non-toxic ink for use in inkjet printers. Instead of relying on dyes, the team exploits the nanostructure of this ink to create color on a page with inkjet printing.

11 Feb 2016

Kiel University Researchers Aim to Detect 100 Biomarkers on the Chip

A whole lab in your hand: researchers at Kiel University have developed a chip that can recognise various proteins in a drop of blood. This could make medical diagnoses much quicker and cheaper in the future.

11 Feb 2016

Researchers Develop Sensitive Ricin Biosensors Based on Aptamers

Tiny rocketlike particles that move around on their own in a hydrogen peroxide solution can detect trace amounts of the lethal toxin ricin within minutes (ACS Sens. 2016, DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.5b00300). They could someday provide a quick, easy way to detect the bioterrorism agent in food and water samples without having to bring them back to a lab. The particles, made of graphene oxide and platinum, carry sensor molecules that glow when they bind to ricin.

11 Feb 2016

Researchers Analyze Various Applications of Designer DNA Nanocages

Living systems rely on a dizzying variety of chemical reactions essential to development and survival. Most of these involve a specialized class of protein molecules — the enzymes.

11 Feb 2016

Development of Novel Transistor Could Revolutionize Thin-Film Electronic Devices

A new transistor, capable of revolutionizing thin-film electronic devices, has been developed by an engineering research team at the University of Albert (U of A).

11 Feb 2016

Minus K Announce an Educational Giveaway of a Technology Vibration Isolator

Minus K Technology, Inc. is giving away $20,000 worth of patented vibration isolators to colleges within the United States.

From Minus K Technology 10 Feb 2016

New Study Suggests Graphene Sheets Efficiently Shield Chemical Interactions

A collaborative research proposed that graphene sheets are capable of effectively shielding chemical interactions. This occurrence holds promise for applications such as the quality improvement of 2D materials by "de-charging" charged defect centers located on the surface of carbon materials. The ability to control the selectivity and activity of the supported metallic catalysts on the carbon substrate is another key feature.

9 Feb 2016

Researchers Observe Light-Induced Lossless Electricity Transmission in Fullerenes

The general belief is that superconductors can only be used in a few applications as the finest of these materials tend to lose their resistance at -70°C. These days they are predominantly used in magnets for fusion devices, particle accelerators, and nuclear magnetic resonance tomographs.

9 Feb 2016

Nanotechnology News

Novel Carbon Thin Film Deposition Method Provides Energy Storage Capability to Microchips

Breakthrough Method Paves Way for Development of Tunable Lens Arrays

Nanolaser Developed by TUM Physicists Helps Cost-Effectively Fabricate High-Performance Photonic Components

Retractable Protein Nanoneedles to Break Cell Barriers

Development of Nanowire Lasers Could Open New Research Frontier for Optoelectronics

Researchers Make Breakthrough in Understanding of Graphene’s Basic Properties

Researchers Use Linac Coherent Light Source to Image Exploding Nanoparticles

Research Team Uses Light Reflection of Interface Nanostructures for Non-Toxic Ink Printing

Kiel University Researchers Aim to Detect 100 Biomarkers on the Chip

Researchers Develop Sensitive Ricin Biosensors Based on Aptamers

Researchers Analyze Various Applications of Designer DNA Nanocages

Development of Novel Transistor Could Revolutionize Thin-Film Electronic Devices

Minus K Announce an Educational Giveaway of a Technology Vibration Isolator

New Study Suggests Graphene Sheets Efficiently Shield Chemical Interactions

Researchers Observe Light-Induced Lossless Electricity Transmission in Fullerenes

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