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Nanowire Properties Tested, Results Point to Use as Oscillators in Nanoelectromechanical Systems for Nanosensors and Communications Devices

Nanowires grown at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have a mechanical “quality factor” at least 10 times higher than reported values for other nanoscale devices such as carbon nanotub...

28 Nov 2007

Model Made of Largest Cellular Particle Crystallised, This May Help to Engineer the Particles for Drug Delivery

Researchers at UCLA's California NanoSystems Institute, the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have modeled the structure of the largest cellular particle ever crystallize...

28 Nov 2007

Nano 50 Award from NASA TechBriefs Goes to NanoDynamics

NanoDynamics Inc. has announced its receipt of a Nano 50™ product award from NASA TechBriefs. The award recognized achievements by the company and its subsidiary, MetaMateria Partners, in employing nanomaterials fo...

28 Nov 2007

Next Generation Solar Research to get $21million from Department of Energy

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Samuel W. Bodman today announced that the Department will invest $21.7 million in next generation photovoltaic (PV) technology to help accelerate the widespread use of advanced s...

From Solexant 27 Nov 2007

Brilliant X-Ray Light Source Building to be Topped Out

DESY celebrates the topping-out ceremony for the experimental hall of PETRA III – the new source of especially brilliant X-ray light in Hamburg. On occasion of the structural completion of the building, German Rese...

27 Nov 2007

Microfabrication of Semiconductors Using Classic Equipment from 1957

A 1957 classic sits in the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) clean room. It’s not a Chevy, but a Veeco vacuum evaporator more than six feet tall and five feet wide. $$IMAGE$$ The evaporator, still in use...

27 Nov 2007

High Performance Field Effect Transistors Made at Room Temperature with Thin Films of Carbon 60

Using room-temperature processing, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have fabricated high-performance field effect transistors with thin films of Carbon 60, also known as fullerene. The ability to produc...

27 Nov 2007

Nanoparticles Created That Can Move Across Oil and Water Interface and Transport Gold Across the Boundary

Achieving the desired effect is often only a question of the right place and the right moment - and this also applies to drugs. In order to be transported in the bloodstream, they need to be water-soluble. However, in or...

26 Nov 2007

Sandia Observe Buckyball Birth - Confirm Smalley's Hypothesis

Almost everyone in the scientific community has heard of buckyballs, but no one until Sandia's Jianyu Huang has seen one being born. Buckyballs - more formally known as buckminsterfullerene C-60 - are carbon-linke...

From Sandia National Laboratories 22 Nov 2007

Optimizing Magnet Manufacture using Nanotechnology

Magnetic materials, also known as magnets, have a wide range of applications in daily life. They are part of the core of electric engines, from those used in cars to CD systems. Computers´ hard disks are made of a ...

22 Nov 2007

Nanomaterials News

Nanowire Properties Tested, Results Point to Use as Oscillators in Nanoelectromechanical Systems for Nanosensors and Communications Devices

Model Made of Largest Cellular Particle Crystallised, This May Help to Engineer the Particles for Drug Delivery

Nano 50 Award from NASA TechBriefs Goes to NanoDynamics

Next Generation Solar Research to get $21million from Department of Energy

Brilliant X-Ray Light Source Building to be Topped Out

Microfabrication of Semiconductors Using Classic Equipment from 1957

High Performance Field Effect Transistors Made at Room Temperature with Thin Films of Carbon 60

Nanoparticles Created That Can Move Across Oil and Water Interface and Transport Gold Across the Boundary

Sandia Observe Buckyball Birth - Confirm Smalley's Hypothesis

Optimizing Magnet Manufacture using Nanotechnology

Revolutionizing Regenerative Medicine: Groundbreaking Biomaterial for Tissue Growth

Breakthrough Nanoparticle Targets Breast Cancer and Brain Tumors

High-Resolution Microscope Reveals Electron Behavior in Graphene

Synthesis of Transparent Polyimide Nanocomposites with Organoclay Fillers

New Nanocomposite Recipe for High-Performance Metasurfaces

Recent Advances in High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy to Improve Research Into Protein Dynamics

Applying AI-Driven Solutions to Semiconductor Digital Design

Redux AFM: Expanding Access to Automated Nanoscale Imaging

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