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Chips Made of Layers Just Three Atoms Thick Could be the Future of Electronics

For more than 50 years, silicon chipmakers have developed innovative methods to switch electricity off and on, by producing the digital zeroes and ones to encode pictures, words, movies and other forms of data.

30 Nov 2016

New Solar Nanotech-Powered Clothing can Revolutionize Wearable Technology

Inspired by Marty McFly’s self-lacing Nikes in the movie Back to the Future Part II, a UCF scientist has developed filaments that are capable of harvesting and storing solar energy, and can be woven into fabric.

15 Nov 2016

New Research Facilitates Tuning of Thermal Conductivity of 2D Materials

A research team has discovered a surprising way to direct the thermal conductivity of 2D materials, which will assist electronics designers to dissapate heat in electronic gadgets that utilize these materials.

24 Oct 2016

ORNL Team Uses Nano-Spike Catalysts to Turn Carbon Dioxide into Ethanol

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have devised an electrochemical process that uses miniature spikes of copper and carbon to convert the common greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into ethanol. Their process involves catalysis science and nanofabrication and their finding happened by chance.

13 Oct 2016

Nanoscale Engineering Technique can Transform Particles into “LEGO-Like” Blocks

A nanoscale engineering technique that can transform small particles into “LEGO-like” modular building blocks has been developed by scientists. The research work, which was headed by the University of Melbourne promises to be useful in nano- and micro-scale applications such as chemical sensing, energy storage and drug delivery.

12 Oct 2016

Researchers Document Water Molecular Dipoles Alignment

Researchers from MIPT and teams in Russia and a few other European nations are the first to realize and record the phenomenon of water molecular dipoles alignment. The researchers achieved this by confining water molecules in nanocages inside a beryl crystal.

6 Oct 2016

Nano-Optical Researchers Provide Insights into Performance of Newly Developed Plasmonic Grating Structures

University of Arkansas researchers have discovered that a newly developed plasmonic fabrication capability and design can improve the performance of biosensors, solar cells and photodetectors.

22 Sep 2016

Advanced Nano-Cutter Could Lead to Improved Manufacturing Approaches

The University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Engineering has a new addition in the form of a unique machine that can mill in 3D with nanometer precision.

16 Sep 2016

ONR-Sponsored Scientists Create Electrical Wires Using Renewable "Green" Energy Resources

Scientists sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) have genetically modified a common soil bacteria to create electrical wires that not only conduct electricity, but are thousands of times thinner than a human hair.

17 Aug 2016

KIT Researchers Develop Tailored Probes for Atomic Force Microscopes

The nanostructure of surfaces is made visible with atomic force microscopes. The probes of these microscopes use supreme quality measurement needles to scan the investigation material. These needles have now successfully been used by KIT for their applications.

11 Aug 2016