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Technology Research News December 3, 2003 Kimberly Patch |
DNA assembles nanotube transistor Scientists have caused a transistor to self-assemble from a test tube concoction of DNA, proteins, antibodies, carbon nanotubes and minuscule specks of silver and gold. The feat shows that it is possible to assemble the smallest of machines and electronic devices by harnessing DNA's properties. |
Industrial Physicist Feb/Mar 2004 R. Bruce Weisman |
Simplifying carbon nanotube identification A new method has been found to identify and classify various structural forms of carbon nanotubes, each with its characteristic electronic properties, in a typical mixture, using spectrofluorimetry. |
Industrial Physicist Eric Lerner |
Briefs Penetrating the fog... Plasma self-organization... Stronger than spider silk... Slow light... etc. |
Technology Research News May 18, 2005 Eric Smalley |
Nanotube Memory Scheme is Magnetic Researchers have designed a type of nanotube flash memory that has a potential capacity of 40 gigabits per square centimeter and 1,000 terabits per cubic centimeter. |
Industrial Physicist Aug/Sep 2003 Eric J. Lerner |
Briefs A magnetic microscope for the brain... Spin and energy -- free?... Finest nanowire arrays... Solar-cell burnout... etc. |
Industrial Physicist |
Biomimetic Nanotechnology Although biomimetic nanotechnology is in its infancy, with no applications yet reaching commercialization, the barriers in some cases lie mainly in scaling up production processes to industrial levels. |
Technology Research News December 15, 2004 |
DNA Makes Nanotube Transistors Researchers have harnessed the self-assembly abilities of DNA to construct field-effect transistors from carbon nanotubes. |
Industrial Physicist Avouris & Appenzeller |
Electronics and Optoelectronics with Carbon Nanotubes Evaluating the potential of carbon nanotubes as the basis of a future nanoelectronics technology. |
Technology Research News December 1, 2004 |
Short Nanotubes Carry Big Currents Researchers have developed a simple way to fabricate carbon nanotube devices whose length is as small as ten nanometers, and have shown that electricity can pass through the nanotubes very efficiently. |
Industrial Physicist Feb/Mar 2003 Patrick Young |
Forum: Small focus brings big rewards Focusing on small things in innovative ways figured prominently in earning high honors for 10 researchers, the winners of six prized awards in physics. |
Technology Research News August 25, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Tools Design DNA-Nanotube Logic Researchers are aiming to make the process of assembling molecular-scale components easier with a suite of computer-aided design tools for designing computer circuits made from carbon nanotubes assembled by DNA. |
IEEE Spectrum November 2010 Bedair et al. |
Spintronic Memories to Revolutionize Data Storage Superdense MRAM chips based on the bizarre property of electron spin could replace all other forms of data storage |
Chemistry World March 3, 2010 Jon Cartwright |
Hydrocarbon turns superconductor Researchers in Japan have created the first superconducting material based on a molecule of carbon and hydrogen atoms. |
Technology Research News October 17, 2005 |
Data storage technologies Today's magnetic disk drives could be improved by incorporating much larger magnetoresistance or replaced by microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), near-field optics, holographic systems, or even molecules for better data storage solutions. |
IEEE Spectrum August 2011 Hadjipanayis & Gabay |
The Incredible Pull of Nanocomposite Magnets Nanotechnology could make rare earth magnets even stronger. |
Reactive Reports July 2004 David Bradley |
Pure Nanotubes Researchers have developed a novel technique that allows them to purify carbon nanotubes and to sort those that are semiconducting from the metallic single-walled carbon nanotubes. |
Technology Research News January 1, 2003 Kimberly Patch |
Aligned fields could speed storage Researchers from three institutes in Germany and Russia have found a material whose electric and magnetic domains line up together. The work could bring together the currently separate fields of magnetic and electronic data storage, which would give both methods more flexibility. |
Technology Research News March 9, 2005 |
Nanotubes Boost Molecular Devices Researchers have constructed an extremely small transistor from a pair of single-walled carbon nanotubes and organic molecules. The tiny transistor could eventually be used in ultra-low-power electronics. |
Technology Research News December 1, 2004 Eric Smalley |
For Pure Nanotubes Add Water Washing away impurities with water turns out to be as good for growing carbon nanotubes as it is for keeping a clean house. |
IEEE Spectrum December 2011 Strano & Kalantar-Zadeh |
Nanodynamite Fuel-coated nanotubes could provide bursts of power to the smallest systems |
Chemistry World January 2012 |
DNA motors on With the relentless rise of DNA nanotechnology's popularity, Emma Davies explores the role chemistry has played in its success |
Chemistry World June 18, 2008 Lewis Brindley |
Micro-magnets promise colour MRI scans Microscopic magnets could one day brighten up grey-scale magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, according to scientists in the US. |
Chemistry World July 8, 2009 Phillip Broadwith |
DNA gets nanotubes sorted out DNA could be the answer to sorting different kinds of carbon nanotubes, say US researchers. |
Technology Research News December 29, 2004 |
TRN's Top Picks: Technology Research Advances of 2004 Biotechnology... Communications... Computer chips... Computer interfaces... Engineering... etc. |
Chemistry World June 9, 2011 Mike Brown |
Chemical 'Scotch Tape' separates carbon nanotubes The separation mechanism is based on the interaction difference between chemicals and single-walled carbon nanotubes of different electrical properties. |
Chemistry World October 30, 2007 Jayaraman Killugudi |
Glowing Future for Nanotubes A team of scientists from India and Japan have been the first to make a bundle of nanotubes glow, paving the way for their use as chemical sensors or in optoelectronics. |
Technology Research News January 26, 2005 |
The How It Works Files Nanotechnology: The laws of physics behave differently at very small scales. At the nanoscale, electrons travel more quickly through wires, transistors can mete out electrons one at a time, objects stick to each other, and light can bend matter. |
Technology Research News June 4, 2003 |
Study shows DNA will fill tubes Researchers from the Max Planck Institute in Germany have shown by computer simulation that it is possible to insert DNA into a carbon nanotube. |
Chemistry World January 8, 2009 Hayley Birch |
Nanotubes promise electronic inks A new chemical process may help overcome one of the main obstacles to using carbon nanotubes in electronics |
IEEE Spectrum November 2006 Willie D. Jones |
Swiss Invent a Muscular Display Today's high-end display would be perfect if only it offered more detail and true color. Now Swiss researchers propose to solve both these problems with moveable gratings that break white light into a rainbow and bend the right part of it to a spot on the screen. |
Chemistry World November 10, 2008 Hayley Birch |
Nanotube scales challenge mass spectrometers By precisely measuring tiny fluctuations in mass, carbon nanotubes will allow chemists to follow reactions of individual proteins atom by atom, predict Spanish researchers |
Chemistry World September 24, 2012 Simon Hadlington |
Raised eyebrows greet graphite superconductivity claim Can graphite treated merely with water become a superconductor at room temperature? This is the extraordinary claim made by scientists in Germany. |
Technology Research News November 17, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Nanotubes Tune in Light Carbon nanotubes can act as antennas, but instead of transmitting and receiving radio waves, antennas of their size pick up the nanoscale wavelengths of visible light. |
Technology Research News August 22, 2005 |
DNA Technologies The versatile DNA molecule has proven to be a powerful technological building block. Researchers have developed ways of combining DNA molecules that allow them to carry out computations in test tubes and create two-dimensional patterns and three-dimensional structures at the nanoscale. |
RootPrompt.org May 24, 2000 Peter Gutmann |
Secure Deletion of Data With the use of increasingly sophisticated encryption systems, an attacker wishing to gain access to sensitive data is forced to look elsewhere for information.... |
Technology Research News April 20, 2005 |
Nanotube Chemical Sensor Gains Speed Researchers have made single-walled carbon nanotube chemical sensors that transmit information by measuring the charge in the nanotubes' capacitance, or ability to store electric charge. |
Technology Research News February 11, 2004 |
DNA sorts nanotubes Researchers have come up with a way to use DNA to separate carbon nanotubes by electrical type -- metallic or semi conducting -- and by diameter. A carbon nanotubes's electrical properties and diameter are related. |
Technology Research News November 3, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Ultrathin carbon speeds circuits Researchers have found that the equivalent of unrolled carbon nanotubes -- sheets of carbon atoms only a few atoms thick -- have comparable electrical properties and are more compatible with today's chipmaking methods. It could be used practically within five years |
Chemistry World June 24, 2010 Mike Brown |
Movies of molecules in 4D Movies of carbon nanotube bracelets showing their response over time to an external trigger have been recorded enabling greater understanding of not only the 3D structure of the nanotubes, but of how they react and move, say scientists in the US. |
Technology Research News July 30, 2003 Eric Smalley |
Chip senses trace DNA Handheld detectors could one day allow you to monitor your body for cancer, your water for chemicals, and your food for bacteria. This requires inexpensive electronics that are capable of detecting trace amounts of substances. One candidate is a chip containing DNA-tipped carbon nanotubes. |
Technology Research News February 9, 2005 |
Nanotubes on plastic speed circuits Many researchers are working to make plastic electronics that are as fast as today's silicon electronic components -- with the promise to enable flexible, inexpensive and very-large area computer screens. One group of researchers has taken a significant step closer to this goal. |
Chemistry World October 20, 2011 James Mitchell Crow |
Nanotubes with a Split Personality Show Solar Promise A team in Japan is the first to form nanotubes which incorporate two electronically distinct semiconducting domains, an advance which could also see applications in devices ranging from solid-state lasers to transistors. |
Technology Research News February 11, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Noise boosts nanotube antennas Sometimes adding a little noise can help a signal come through loud and clear. This is true for the neural network between your ears, and it turns out to also be true for carbon nanotubes. The result could be better cell phones, chemical detectors and video screens. |
Chemistry World December 7, 2009 Simon Hadlington |
Metal atoms in carbon nanotubes caught on film An international team of researchers has filmed individual metal atoms as they move around and react within the confines of a carbon nanotube. |
Chemistry World September 17, 2012 Ian Le Guillou |
Raising the curtain on single-stranded DNA Scientists have created microfluidic devices containing single-stranded DNA 'curtains' for the first time, allowing scientists to study its interactions with proteins in real time. |
Chemistry World April 28, 2006 Jon Evans |
Double-Whammy Analysis to Probe Nanotubes Chemists and physicists have probed the electronic and physical structure of single-walled carbon nanotubes in unprecedented detail using both Raman scattering spectroscopy and electron diffraction. |
Technology Research News April 21, 2004 |
Magnets Align Nanotubes in Resin Carbon nanotubes have great potential as components of new materials but aligning the tiny tubes can be tricky. Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Florida State University have developed a way to orient the nanotubes in a polymer mix using a magnetic field. |
Technology Research News December 29, 2004 |
Coated Nanotubes Make Biosensors Researchers are using carbon nanotubes to sense single molecules, and are tapping the way carbon nanotubes give off near-infrared light in order to read what the sensors have detected. |
Technology Research News May 19, 2004 |
Nanotube Makes Metal Transistor Researchers from the University of Illinois have found a way to produce a field effect in a metallic single-wall carbon nanotube that conducts electricity 40 times more efficiently than copper. The metal transistor could be used in practical applications in five to ten years. |
Chemistry World September 9, 2010 Mike Brown |
Electric shock resets nanotube sensor Sensors based on single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNTs) could be 'reset' at the simple flick of a switch, say researchers in the US. |