like that produced by a Polaroid filter, vibrates in a single plane. When struck by such a light beam,
the amount of blue light the nano-spirals emit varies as the angle of the plane of polarization is rotated through 360 degrees.
Silver and platinum nano-spirals could be made in the same way. Because of the tiny quantities of metal actually used
We are pleased very that our recently introduced flame transport synthesis method on the basis of zinc oxide now enables the simple synthesis of interconnected 3d networks from tin oxide
And these long flat noodles grow together in a very specific way: In the oven used for the synthesis, temperatures stay just below the melting point of tin oxide.
Development of such 3d network materials from tin oxide, with geometry determining defects made by flame transport synthesis at Kiel University is a very interesting step forward into the future of nanostructure growth and applications."#
These new phenomena rely on the transport of thermal energy, in contrast to the conventional application of magnetic fields, providing a new,
and highly desirable way to manipulate magnetization at the nanoscale.""In our study, we make use of the fact that a heat current passing through a magnetic material creates a separation of electron spins.
researchers had figured not yet out a way to use it to visualize the growth of complex self-assembled, chemical nanostructures.'
A route to developing ultimate superconducting nanodevices June 2nd, 2015self Assembly Researchers simulate behavior of'active matter'June 3rd, 2015engineering Phase changes in Nanoparticle Arrays:
and fault isolation solution that reduces analysis time from days to just hours June 4th, 2015centre for Process Innovation pilots Beneqs breakthrough roll-to-roll ALD system for moisture
Scientists at the U s. Department of energy's Argonne National Laboratory have found a way to use tiny diamonds
or"scrolls",the team found a way to translate the nanoscale superlubricity into a macroscale phenomenon.
While the field of tribology has long been concerned with ways to reduce friction -and thus the energy demands of different mechanical systems-superlubricity has been treated as a tough proposition."
"Sumant added,"will be crucial in finding ways to reduce friction in everything from engines or turbines to computer hard disks and microelectromechanical systems."#
2015automotive/Transportation Researchers analyze the structure of bird feathers to create hues without dye June 8th, 2015environmental Issues to Hamper Growth of Global Nanocomposites Market June 4th,
Scientists want to find a way to create 1 and 0 by using physics phenomena that don't actually change the atomic structure of the material--for example,
But the only way we knew how to make new individual skyrmion bubbles on demand was at very,
'Our new method is the simplest way to generate skyrmion bubbles thus far, 'said Argonne postdoctoral researcher Wanjun Jiang, the first author on the study.
Hydrogels block harmful oxygen June 15th, 2015automotive/Transportation A protective shield for sensitive catalysts: Hydrogels block harmful oxygen June 15th, 2015slip sliding away:
ranging from the catalysts used for the generation of energy-dense fuels from sunlight and carbon dioxide, to how bridges and airplanes rust."
Researchers have found an easy way to produce carbon nanoparticles that are small enough to evade the body's immune system,
Bhargava's laboratory used vibrational spectroscopic techniques to identify the molecular structure of the nanoparticles and their cargo."
X-ray laser opens up new avenues of research in material science June 18th, 2015a new way to image surfaces on the nanoscale:
2015stanford engineers find a simple yet clever way to boost chip speeds: Inside each chip are millions of tiny wires to transport data;
wrapping them in a protective layer of graphene could boost speeds by up to 30 percent June 18th, 2015a new way to image surfaces on the nanoscale:
Method could be useful in developing green energy and a better understanding of rust June 18th, 2015registration in 8th Int'l Iran Nano Expo 2015 Starts June 18th, 2015chemistry $8
2015stanford engineers find a simple yet clever way to boost chip speeds: Inside each chip are millions of tiny wires to transport data;
wrapping them in a protective layer of graphene could boost speeds by up to 30 percent June 18th, 2015a new way to image surfaces on the nanoscale:
Method could be useful in developing green energy and a better understanding of rust June 18th, 2015new Sensors Measure Blood Anticoagulation Drug June 17th,
2015announcements Stanford engineers find a simple yet clever way to boost chip speeds: Inside each chip are millions of tiny wires to transport data;
wrapping them in a protective layer of graphene could boost speeds by up to 30 percent June 18th, 2015$8. 5m Grant For Developing Nano Printing Technology:
4-D printing to advance chemistry, materials sciences and defense capabilities June 18th, 2015a new way to image surfaces on the nanoscale:
2015stanford engineers find a simple yet clever way to boost chip speeds: Inside each chip are millions of tiny wires to transport data;
wrapping them in a protective layer of graphene could boost speeds by up to 30 percent June 18th, 2015a new way to image surfaces on the nanoscale:
Method could be useful in developing green energy and a better understanding of rust June 18th, 2015new Sensors Measure Blood Anticoagulation Drug June 17th,
2015research partnerships Stanford engineers find a simple yet clever way to boost chip speeds: Inside each chip are millions of tiny wires to transport data;
wrapping them in a protective layer of graphene could boost speeds by up to 30 percent June 18th, 2015$8. 5m Grant For Developing Nano Printing Technology:
4-D printing to advance chemistry, materials sciences and defense capabilities June 18th, 2015a new way to image surfaces on the nanoscale:
"Our laser technique forces the materials to assemble in a particular way. We can then build structures layer-by-layer,
and the way the rows intersect and overlap shapes the grid. We then apply the functional materials after each layer forms.
It's an exceptionally fast and simple way to produce such precise configurations.""Study coauthor Atikur Rahman, a CFN postdoctoral researcher, added,
Physicists have found a way to control the length and strength of waves of atomic motion that have promising potential uses such as fine-scale imaging and the transmission of information within tight spaces.
As a result, this human-made material manipulates electromagnetic radiation-light-in ways never observed in natural materials.
"We have demonstrated now an entirely new class of electromagnetic metamaterials that are fabricated from separate atomic planes of Van der waals materials,
2015discovery paves way for new kinds of superconducting electronics June 22nd, 2015researchers first to show that Saharan silver ants can control electromagnetic waves over an extremely broad range of the electromagnetic spectrumfindings may lead to biologically inspired coatings for passive radiative cooling of objects June 19th,
and cadmium sulfide to provide a route to low-cost, scalable and green synthesis of Cds nanocrystals with extrinsic crystallite size control in the quantum confinement range.
Researchers used a simple and inexpensive nano-imprinting technique that can produce the reflective nanostructured surface over a large area. his is a cheap way of making displays on a flexible substrate with full-color generation,
#Breakthrough graphene production could trigger revolution in artificial skin development A pioneering new technique could pave the way for the development of the first truly flexible lectronic skin Abstract:
low cost graphene could pave the way for the development of the first truly flexible'electronic skin,
believes the new discovery could pave the way for"a graphene-driven industrial revolution"to take place.
This shows to the semiconductor industry for the very first time a way to potentially mass produce graphene with present facilities rather than requiring them to build new manufacturing plants.
such as transportation. With these unique features, PEMFC will revolutionize the future energy economy. Modern applications for PEMFCPEMFC will indirectly make water our future fuel.
Advancements in the electrolyte system of PEMFCTHE commercial development of a special electrolyte (single ion conducting polymer electrolyte) changed the field of electrochemical devices in a significant way.
highly symmetrical planes of oxygen atoms (somewhat like a densely packed box of marbles) where different metallic elements are lodged in the spaces between them.
In doing so, they developed a more accurate and efficient way of diagnosing prostate cancer than the current tests
Getting rid of excess heat in efficient ways is imperative to prolonging electronic lifespan, and would also lead to a considerable reduction in energy usage.
Graphene-based film could also pave the way for faster, smaller, more energy efficient, sustainable high power electronics."
and has eight Areas of Advance Built environment, Energy, Information and Communication Technology, Life science, Materials science, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Production, and Transportation.
2015a cool way to form 2-D conducting polymers using ice: POSTECH scientists develop breakthrough technique to easily optimize electrical properties of Polyaniline nanosheets to an unprecedented level in an environmental-friendly and inexpensive way July 7th,
2015discoveries Scientists Apply Magnetic nanoparticles to Eliminate Cancerous Cells July 10th, 2015graphene gets competition: Layered semiconducting black arsenic phosphorus as an alternative to silicon July 9th, 2015depletion and enrichment of chlorine in perovskites observed July 9th,
Making graphene's electrons oscillate in different ways makes it possible to"read"all the vibrations of the molecule on its surface."
-when bent-the nanowires would return more than 80 percent of the way to their original shape instantaneously,
but return the rest of the way (up to 20 percent) slowly.""In nanowires that are approximately 50 nanometers in diameter,
They also want to evaluate how this characteristic may affect other properties, such as electrical conductivity and thermal transport.
"This research opens up a new way to manipulate the flow of light, and could enable new technologies in light sensing and solar energy conversion,
Right now, computers generally store information in several ways, among them the well-known random-access memory (RAM) and read-only memory (ROM.
Finding ways to speed up the recording process of phase-change materials and understanding the limits to this speed could lead to a new type of memory that harnesses the best of both worlds.
Among other applications of this sensor, mention can be made of desulfurization of petroleum products, production of jet fuel and launching of aircrafts and other aerospace applications.
or minute flaws within airplane wings in industrial testing, that may otherwise be unobservable due to an instrument's diffractive limit.
and could be important for future device technologies as well as for fundamental studies of electron transport in molecular nanostructures.
Single-electron transport in molecular transistors has been studied previously using top-down approaches, such as lithography and break junctions.
Piet Brouwer, a physicist at FUB and expert in quantum transport theory, said that his intriguing behavior goes beyond the established picture of charge transport through a gated quantum dot.
Schneck's research team looked to magnets as a potential way to separate the naive T cells from others in the blood.
even though this is still some way off the fifteen percent achieved by silicon cells coupled to a battery.
scientists continue to look for ways to increase their efficiency while simplifying how they are manufactured. A new study by researchers from the California Nanosystems Institute at UCLA is the first demonstration of electroluminescence from multilayer molybdenum disulfide,
The one-atom-thick carbon sheets could revolutionize the way electronic devices are manufactured and lead to faster transistors, cheaper solar cells, new types of sensors and more efficient bioelectric sensory devices.
carrying electrons with almost no resistance even at room temperature, a property known as ballistic transport. Graphene's unique optical, mechanical and electrical properties have lead to the one-atom-thick form of carbon being heralded as the next generation material for faster, smaller, cheaper and less power-hungry electronics."
Halas said one way to lower manufacturing costs would be to incorporate high-efficiency light-gathering plasmonic nanostructures with low-cost semiconductors like metal oxides.
"The efficiency of semiconductor-based solar cells can never be extended in this way because of the inherent optical properties of the semiconductors."
but it provides no way of determining how many of those electrons are actually useful, high-energy, hot electrons,
This research provides a route to increasing the efficiency of plasmonic hot-carrier devices and shows that they can be useful for converting sunlight into usable electricity."
morphing aircraft; giant-range strain sensors; failure-free pacemaker leads; and super-stretchy charger cords for electronic devices.
The new fibers differ from conventional materials in several ways. For example, when conventional fibers are stretched,
UC Riverside researchers find a way to use the infrared region of the sun's spectrum to make solar cells more efficient A huge gain in this direction has now been made by a team of chemists at the University of California,
Riverside that has found an ingenious way to make solar energy conversion more efficient. The researchers report in Nano Letters that by combining inorganic semiconductor nanocrystals with organic molecules, they have succeeded in"upconverting"photons in the visible and near-infrared regions of the solar spectrum."
providing a route to higher efficiencies.""This 550--nanometer light can be absorbed by any solar cell material,
The asymmetry of a p-n junction presents the electrons with an"on/off"transport environment.
Neaton and his colleagues at Columbia University have discovered a way to address both deficiencies.""Electron flow at molecular length-scales is dominated by quantum tunneling,
"The Berkeley Lab-Columbia University team believes their new approach to a single-molecule diode provides a general route for tuning nonlinear nanoscale-device phenomena that could be applied to systems beyond single-molecule junctions
and designing new routes to charge and energy flow at the nanoscale. What is exciting to me about this field is its multidisciplinary nature-the need for both physics and chemistry-and the strong beneficial coupling between experiment and theory."
-which measures how much the polar groups line up in a stable way with the field-behaves in a linear way,
"We were surprised to see transport rates approaching the'holy grail'number of a billion water molecules per channel per second,
The beamsplitter would be just one of a multitude of passive devices placed on a silicon chip to direct light waves in different ways.
together with BGT Materials Limited, found a way to increase the conductivity of graphene ink without resorting to a binder.
similar to the way new pavement is compressed with a road roller. Compressing the ink increased its conductivity by more than 50 times,
Paving the Way to Antennas, Wireless Sensors, and More The researchers tested their compressed graphene laminate by printing a graphene antenna onto a piece of paper.
Now a team of Northwestern University researchers has found a way to print three-dimensional structures with graphene nanoflakes.
#Controlling light by pairing two exotic 2-D materials Researchers have found a way to couple the properties of different two-dimensional materials to provide an exceptional degree of control over light waves.
and can couple in ways that afford a great deal of control over the behavior of light.
when the materials are combined in a certain way, the plasmons and phonons can couple, producing a strong resonance.
ur work paves the way for using 2-D material heterostructures for engineering new optical properties on demand.
Yu-Zhong Wang, Fei Song and colleagues wanted to seek a greener way forward. The researchers developed a thin,
Nae-Eung Lee and colleagues note that one way to make interactions between people and robots more intuitive would be to endow machines with the ability to read their users'emotions
The nanobatteries were fabricated by atomic layer deposition to make oxide nanotubes (for ion storage) inside metal nanotubes for electron transport, all inside each end of the nanopores.
and out and close contact between the thin nested tubes to ensure fast transport for both ions and electrons.
"Our findings fundamentally change the way we think about a certain type of magnetism that has been in place
and gaining a previously unattainable understanding of processes such as electron, water or ion transport or chemical reactions.
Down the road, you could potentially get enough cells from just a normal syringe-based blood draw,
Treating the surface of medical devices would have a greater impact on patients considered at high risk of infection such as trauma victims from road traffic collisions or combat operations,
This research may also provide ways to alter the function of metals in order to develop active elements for technologies such as optical communications by controlling how light is reflected from a metal.
If a word is said in a certain way five times, and then in a different way once, it learned to filter away the standout
and concentrate on the most common way, which is presumably correct. This processing happens during the robots downtime.
We say that the machine dreams at night, Brandtsegg says. After a while, the robot was able to connect words
Between the two displays, they worked on improving the way the robot organizes its memories.
opening the way to more accurate diagnostic tests that rely on detection of molecular"signatures"using different markers."
Roads congested with traffic, public transport overcrowded, pavements heaving with people. But as well as the frustration, there a sinister side to the commute to work:
every breath you take could be adding to your risk of dying prematurely. Air pollution is the world largest single environmental health risk,
Personal devices were strapped to bicycles carried in cars and on buses, and static devices were attached to lampposts
and stationed at roadsides and at critical pollutant sites. Fifty static devices were deployed also around London Heathrow Airport to record 22 months in the life of one of the busiest airports in the world. his was the first time technology like this had been tested in real-world situations as a high-density network,
says Jones, whose research at Heathrow was funded by the Natural environment Research Council. e could see huge variability in the exposure to pollution that people encounter as they move around the urban environment,
we could see the airport turning on and off during the day, individual aircraft taxing and taking off,
and the effects of wind direction and the perimeter and M25 motorway road traffic. They also discovered that sensor performance can create new opportunities.
Jones and colleagues had to develop new smart software methods capable of separating local pollution events from background signals (pollution transported from long range)
whether pollution along bus routes is improved by upgrading the exhaust processing on a bus fleet; whether people living at the top of high-rise buildings experience more or less pollution than people at street level;
and to what extent changing a route to work, even from one side of the road to another, can affect an individual exposure.
Last year, the first commercial product (AQMESH) was released by UK manufacturer Geotech, which specialises in environmental monitoring equipment.
which prevents metal corrosion in an environmentally friendly way, even under extreme conditions. It can be used wherever metals are exposed to severe weather conditions, aggressive gases,
including for example salt solutions such as salt spray on roads and seawater, or aqueous acids such as acid rain.
t helps us to respond in a highly systematic way to the different needs of industry,
like that produced by a Polaroid filter, vibrates in a single plane. When struck by such a light beam,
the amount of blue light the nano-spirals emit varies as the angle of the plane of polarization is rotated through 360 degrees.
Silver and platinum nano-spirals could be made in the same way. Because of the tiny quantities of metal actually used, they can be made inexpensively out of precious metals,
Down the road, the team is interested in developing the glove beyond an assistive device to a rehabilitation tool for various hand pathologies,
The only way for electrons to break free is to forcefully add additional electrical charge to the system,
a solid material with spin-transition solution-like behaviour Spintronics is called a discipline to change the way we store
Zhe Jiang, Peter Kruskal, Chong Xie, Zhigang Suo, Ying Fang"Existing techniques are crude relative to the way the brain is wired,
amplifiers--to transport optical signals.""A major trend in optics,"the researchers write, "has been a drive toward...
in much the same way that integration of electronics has driven the impressive advances of modern computer systems."
The fact that our research is helping to make motorcycling more environmentally friendly eases my conscience every time
#Engineers develop state-by-state plan to convert US to 100 percent renewable energy (Nanowerk News) One potential way to combat ongoing climate change,
and the ways we currently consume energy, but indicate that the conversion is technically and economically possible through the wide-scale implementation of existing technologies."
One way to overcome the barriers is to inform people about what is said possible Jacobson,
residential, commercial, industrial and transportation. For each sector, they then analyzed the current amount and source of the fuel consumed-coal oil, gas, nuclear,
Jacobson said that several states are already on their way. Washington state, for instance, could make the switch to full renewables relatively quickly,
which will pave the way for a new-generation of diagnostics. The device, described in an article published in the journal Scientific Reports("All-nanophotonic NEMS biosensor on a chip"
What they didn't expect is that the trend doesn't scale in a predictable way.
which has paved the way for flexible mobile phones. Lead author, Phd researcher Philipp Gutruf, says the unbreakable,
#3d printing of metal with microscale droplets A team of researchers from the University of Twente has found a way to 3d print structures of copper and gold,
and recasts it in a simpler way, says ALCF assistant computational scientist, Chris Knight. Unlike typical molecular simulations, the XFEL studies are computationally more intensive.
#Researchers grind nanotubes to get nanoribbons (w/video) A simple way to turn carbon nanotubes into valuable graphene nanoribbons may be to grind them,
Highly conductive graphene nanoribbons, thousands of times smaller than a human hair, are finding their way into the marketplace in composite materials.
Kabbani said. here no way we can grind two nanotubes in a microscope and watch it happen.
KAIST) Another way to achieve ultralow-powered PRAM is to utilize self-structured conductive filaments (CF) instead of the resistor-type conventional heater.
Were now working on ways to improve the conductivity of the nano-accordion structures. And at some point we want to find a way to scale up the process.
The researchers are also experimenting with the technique using other conductive materials to determine their usefulness in creating non-transparent
In particular, finding effective ways to remove heat energy is vital to the continued miniaturization of electronics.
One way to measure these tiny vibrations is to bounce electrons off the material and measure how much energy the electrons have transferred to the vibrating atoms.
"Researchers are faced frequently with finding ways to measure smaller and smaller signals, "says NIST researcher Fabian Natterer,
The team was able to map all the graphene phonons this way, and their findings agreed well with their Georgia Tech collaborators'theoretical predictions.
ranging from the catalysts used for the generation of energy-dense fuels from sunlight and carbon dioxide, to how bridges and airplanes rust."
the scientists found a way to protect the germanium from expanding and becoming ineffective after it takes on lithium.
A new technology developed by chemists at UCLA is capable of storing solar energy for up to several weeks an advance that could change the way scientists think about designing solar cells.
and they assemble into the appropriate structure because of the way the materials are designed, Schwartz said.
A second stage of the grant will help bring a pilot to India this summer.
And they had to use computer modeling to find a way to create more coiling.
"Our laser technique forces the materials to assemble in a particular way. We can then build structures layer-by-layer,
and the way the rows intersect and overlap shapes the grid. We then apply the functional materials after each layer forms.
It's an exceptionally fast and simple way to produce such precise configurations.""Study coauthor Atikur Rahman, a CFN postdoctoral researcher, added,
"We have developed an entirely new way of creating a color display, "said John Hong, a researcher with Qualcomm MEMS Technologies,
much like the way we would read and view printed material.""Harnessing Ambient light Typical color displays are essential yet power-hungry components of virtually every digital product with a human-machine interface, from cell phones and computers to home televisions and massive displays
engineers have been exploring ways to replace emissive technologies with displays that can reflect ambient light. Earlier attempts to create reflective light color displays,
-burning hydrogen fuel for transportation and industry. Stanford scientists have invented a device that produces clean-burning hydrogen from water 24 hours a day
As an alternative, scientists have been trying to develop a cheap and efficient way to extract pure hydrogen from water.
such as regenerative braking in trains and buses, elevators and cranes. They are used also in flashes in mobile phones and as a complementary technology to batteries in order to boost performance.
such as when overtaking another car, with the battery providing the steady power for highway driving. upercapacitors perform a similar function to batteries
This way we can tailor the properties of both components to maximise the amount of energy that is stored.
and glucose-sensing enzymes that rapidly release their cargo when blood sugar levels get too high.
they had to figure out a way to administer them to patients with diabetes. Rather than rely on the large needles
and stayed that way for several hours. In addition, the researchers found that they could tune the patch to alter blood glucose levels only within a certain range by varying the dose of enzyme contained within each of the microneedles.
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