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Technique to Turn Defects in Graphene into Tiny Metallic Wires

Researchers at the University of South Florida have developed a technique to turn defects in graphene into tiny metallic wires

30 Mar 2010

A Predilection for Certain Symmetries

Nature likes some symmetries, but dislikes others. Ordered solids often display a so-called 6-fold rotation symmetry. To achieve this kind of symmetry, the atoms in a plane surround themselves with six neighbours in an arrangement similar to that found in honeycombs.

30 Mar 2010

Nanotechnology Projects Seeking to Turn Carbon Dioxide into Useful Products

UCL is involved in two new nanotechnology projects that seek to turn carbon dioxide into useful products.

30 Mar 2010

Physicists and Nanotechnology Researchers Will Explore Future of their Discipline at "Frontiers in Physics"

Five prominent physicists from leading U.S. and European universities will explore the future of their discipline at "Frontiers in Physics," a daylong symposium presented by the Physics Department at The City C...

29 Mar 2010

World's Smallest Superconductor Less than 1 Nanometer Wide

The Ohio University-led study, published Sunday as an advance online publication in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, provides the first evidence that nanoscale molecular superconducting wires can be fabricated, which could be used for nanoscale electronic devices and energy applications.

29 Mar 2010

Middle East Scientists Join to Build New Particle Accelerator

In Jordan, an international project to build a particle accelerator, called SESAME, hopes to bring together scientists from across the Middle East.

29 Mar 2010

Nanocrystalline Materials Help Designing Next-Generation Nuclear Reactors

Self-repairing materials within nuclear reactors may one day become a reality as a result of research by Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists. In a paper appearing today in the journal Science, Los Alam...

26 Mar 2010

Utah Clean Tech Initiative Focuses on Nanotech Materials

Utah Business leaders are increasing their focus on “Green” initiatives and projects in 2010.

26 Mar 2010

Students Unravel Secrets of Particle Physics

Budding physicists from across the South West will be competing to build a machine capable of identifying invisible particles, when they attend a physics masterclass hosted by scientists from the University of Bristol&#3...

25 Mar 2010

Nanotechnology Deliver RNA to Interfere with Cancer Gene

A team of researchers and clinicians from UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and the California Institute of Technology has published the first proof that a targeted nanoparticle - used as an experimental the...

25 Mar 2010