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Ever since late last year when we heard about difficulties foundries were having with the latest-and-greatest (and... Read More »
Graphene is a promising replacement for the materials with which we currently construct electronics. Particularly in the field of solar technology, graphene is useful ... Read More »
Nanotechnology is the study and manipulation of matter at sizes between 1 and 100 nanometers. Nanomedicine is a burgeoning branch of nanotechnology that focuses on... Read More »
Gallium Nitride (GaN) has recently been touted as a highly effectively replacement for silicon in high power transistor applications, but overheating of these devices ... Read More »
Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have experimentally realized a new class of material that has been theorized to exists for over a decade. This... Read More »
Since the onset of the Industrial Revolution, the economy has revolved around supply and demand, encouraging the development of new inventions to improve efficiency... Read More »
A team of scientists led by Bruce Cohen of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Molecular Foundry, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) nanoscience center, has... Read More »
A team at Korean Advanced Institute of Technology (KAIST) has developed new forms of low cost, large-area nanogenerator technology using piezoelectric ceramic... Read More »
Nanotechnology is becoming increasingly ubiquitous, and a significant hurdle to development is imagine difficulties encountered on these small scales. To image... Read More »
Liquid crystals underlie pixels that make sharp pictures on thin computer or television displays. Liquid crystal displays are already a multibillion dollar industry... Read More »
A research team from the University of North Carolina has developed nanoparticle carriers to deliver therapeutic doses of a cancer drug that previously failed in... Read More »
When it comes to detecting and discriminating between a diverse variety and large number of substances, biological noses are unparalleled. UPenn researchers hope to... Read More »
Photonics is a class of devices analogous to our current electronics except using photons of light instead of electrons. In photonics, light serves as the... Read More »
Researchers at McLean Hospital have shown a new category of "green" nanoparticles, non-toxic, protein-based particles that can non-invasively cross the... Read More »
Technology that can effectively detect smuggled radioactive materials is considered vital to U.S. security, as attacks involving nuclear devices are therefore... Read More »
MIT researchers Dr. Birgit Esser and Professor Timothy Swager have demonstrated an unexpected use for carbon nanotubes: helping grocers determine when fruit is going... Read More »
Sheets of carbon-based nanomaterial graphene -- akin to a sheet of unrolled carbon nanotubes -- has some remarkable properties. A single sheet of graphene is just one ... Read More »
Conducting organic molecules allow for the creation of flexible electronic devices such as soar cells and thin-film transistors. The problem is that the wiring... Read More »
The “Domino,” developed by a University of Alberta research team, has the capability to perform the same genetic tests as most fully equipped laboratories ... Read More »
Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a quantum simulator that can engineer interactions among hundreds of quantum... Read More »