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Unique Organic Ring Compounds Combine to Form Smart Materials with Tunable Visual Attributes

Azulene is an aromatic molecule with a rare, deep-blue color that sets it apart from other organic compounds. Recognized for over 500 years as a natural pigment, azulene's unusual color results from an electronic int...

30 Mar 2010

Poster Being Accepted for Symposium on Environmental and Health Impacts of Nanotechnology

Poster titles are now being accepted for Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology's fourth annual symposium, "Environmental and Health Impacts of Engineered Nanomaterials" set for Thursday, April 29, at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.

30 Mar 2010

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