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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. |
BusinessWeek April 18, 2005 Adam Aston |
The Coming Chip Revolution Facing the limits of silicon, scientists are turning to carbon nanotubes. But even with a reliable supply of tubes, scaling up production to supply a vast global industry will take years. |
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 Sarah C. P. Williams |
Living Chemistry Biologists understand better what chemists can bring to the table. And chemists understand better the questions that biologists really care about. This has led to a bigger impact of chemists on biological problems. |
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 Theis & Coufal |
How IBM Sustains the Leading Edge Although we constantly focus on the market, IBM Research has also produced a remarkable string of scientific firsts in physics and in other fields of science and engineering. |
Chemistry World May 12, 2011 Jon Cartwright |
'Chemical soldering' heralds single molecule electronics Scientists in Japan and Switzerland have demonstrated how to wire up single molecules with conductive nanowires. |
Wired July 2000 Rick Overton |
Molecular Electronics Will Change Everything The Next Big Thing is very, very small. Picture trillions of transistors, processors so fast their speed is measured in terahertz, infinite capacity, zero cost. It's the dawn of a new technological revolution - and the death of silicon. Can you say Thiophene Ethynylene Valley? |
Technology Research News February 12, 2003 Eric Smalley |
Logic scheme gains power Researchers from the University of Notre Dame have pushed an alternative computer chip architecture a step forward by finding a way to refresh the short-lived signals the scheme uses to represent the 1s and 0s of digital information. |
Chemistry World October 9, 2013 Emma Stoye |
Computational chemists take Nobel prize The 2013 Nobel prize in chemistry has been awarded to Martin Karplus of Harvard University, US, Michael Levitt of Stanford University, US, and Arieh Warshel of the University of Southern California, US, for "the development of multi-scale models for complex chemical systems." |
InternetNews March 15, 2005 Michael Singer |
HP Plots Its Nano Course Company believes in moving computing beyond silicon to the world of molecular-scale electronics. |
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 Sarah C.P. Williams. |
Carolyn Bertozzi: Changed Expectations Chemists trained in biology were once a rarity -- now they're becoming the norm. |
Reactive Reports Issue 63 David Bradley |
Chemists Go Round the Bend Chemists often think of molecular wires as "shape-persistent" rods with limited flexibility, but researchers have now shown that molecular wires can be bent into ring shapes. |
Industrial Physicist Konstantin Likharev |
Hybrid Semiconductor-Molecular Nanoelectronics Many physicists and engineers believe that the impending crisis due to limitations in CMOS technology may be resolved only by a radical paradigm shift from purely CMOS technology to hybrid semiconductor-molecular circuits. |
Chemistry World August 2011 |
Column: The crucible Philip Ball wonders to what extent molecular structures are metaphorical and philosophical. |
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 Robert Tjian |
President's Letter: Intellectual Ferment There are exciting connections between chemistry and biology from both "sides" of the disciplinary divide. |
InternetNews May 3, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
IBM Introduces The Self-Assembling Chip IBM's chip researchers have been busy developing a special polymer that can self-assemble, putting an insulator around wires at the nano-scale level and allowing the trend for smaller/faster/cooler chips to continue. |
Chemistry World May 2011 |
Column: In the pipeline Molecular biology, physics, materials science, physiology, even pure mathematics is a neighbor, and these neighbors are usually reached through a zone of interdisciplinary stuff that's rather hard to define. So who counts as a chemist? |
Chemistry World September 3, 2014 Philip Ball |
Does life play dice? Those two attention-grabbers, physics and biology, are appropriating what essentially belongs to chemistry. All of the facets of quantum biology that are so far reasonably established, or at least well grounded in experiment and theory, are chemical ones. |
Chemistry World March 2011 |
Column: The crucible Chemistry cannot all be reduced to physics, argues Philip Ball |
IEEE Spectrum July 2005 Michael Riordan |
The End of AT&T In 1974 AT&T was the world's largest corporation and research arm Bell Labs provided a constant flow of technological break-throughs due to long-term stable funding. There is no comparable situation today. |
Chemistry World August 23, 2012 Yuandi Li |
Reversible photoswitch a boost for molecular electronics A team of international scientists has made a photocontrollable device, which, they say, shows potential for application in nanocircuits and helps the understanding of electrical conduction in molecular electronics. |
Technology Research News June 18, 2003 Kimberly Patch |
Prefab key to molecular memory Nano-devices promise to use molecules as super-fast computer circuits, store fantastic amounts of information in a minuscule area and sense minute amounts of chemicals and biological materials. Researchers have brought these possibilities a step closer. |
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. |
Fast Company Victor Kotsev |
HP's Post-Electronic Solution To Tomorrow's Huge Data The HP Machine solves the problem by abandoning the electron -- at least for some key purposes. Memory systems are moving to the ion. |
Chemistry World June 20, 2013 Jim Al-Khalili |
Change: the only constant Today, there is much interest in a wide range of biological phenomena that may have a quantum origin, from our sense of smell to photosynthesis and mutations in DNA. |
Technology Research News December 29, 2004 |
TRN's Top Picks: Technology Research Advances of 2004 Biotechnology... Communications... Computer chips... Computer interfaces... Engineering... etc. |
IndustryWeek December 1, 2002 Jill Jusko |
R&D Stars To Watch These researchers and engineers continue to push the boundaries of technological and scientific achievement. |
Technology Research News April 7, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Angle speeds plastic transistor Going with the flow is a good way to pick up speed, particularly for plastic transistors. Rotating the crystal 180 degrees can change the transistor's performance by as much as 3.5 times. |
Technology Research News February 26, 2003 |
Stamp bangs out plastic circuits Today's transistors are etched from silicon wafers in a multi-step process that involves laser beams, chemicals and clean rooms. A simpler process would make for cheaper computer chips, and a gentler process would allow for transistors of different materials. |
Popular Mechanics February 5, 2010 Cassie Rodenberg |
Solar-Powered Circuits Charge by Sunlight in Real-Time Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania unveiled the world's first solar-powered circuit in a January edition of ACS Nano. The technology shows particular promise for touchscreen devices |
Technology Research News March 24, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Molecular logic proposed Researchers from the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and University College London in England have devised a scheme for designing logic circuits within individual molecules. |
Chemistry World March 9, 2007 Michael Gross |
Nanowires go Round the Bend Chemists have bent an apparently linear molecular wire into a closed circle, creating a conducting ring just 3 nanometers across. |
Chemistry World July 31, 2008 |
Nanostructures Made Easy Scotland-based chemists have invented a new way to build nanoscale arrays of molecules over a large surface area: a technique that may be key to making nanostructures in sophisticated sensors, catalysts, and tiny computer parts. |
Chemistry World July 6, 2012 |
Protein power Tom Muir, professor of chemistry and molecular biology, Princeton University, US, is an expert in protein engineering and its application to studying cellular signalling networks. |
IndustryWeek December 1, 2004 Tim Stevens |
Technologies Of The Year -- IBM Corp.'s Nanotechnology For Semiconductor Processing Polymer molecules that self-assemble will enable smaller, more powerful semiconductor devices for the future. The technology promises significantly reduced feature size, higher component density, improved performance and lower voltage requirements for microelectronic devices. |
Reactive Reports Issue 58 |
ID Tags for Teenage Molecules One academic team has developed a logical technology that allows them to generate millions of unique tags to track sub-microscopic objects. |
Scientific American October 17, 2005 Charles Q. Choi |
Transistor Flow Control At the heart of modern electronics are transistors, which act like valves to direct the flow of electrons. Now researchers have created the first transistors that electrically control molecules instead. |
Industrial Physicist Apr/May 2003 Jennifer Oullette |
Switching from physics to biology Physicists in transition help shape biological theory. |
Chemistry World August 2010 |
Let's get physical The field of physical chemistry is booming, as more and more scientists seek to understand their work on a molecular level |
Chemistry World October 19, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Building Tomorrow's Nanofactory UK scientists have been granted 2.5 million pounds to invent a nanomachine that can build materials molecule by molecule. Such a robot doesn't -- and may never -- exist, though it has been imagined for over half a century. |
IndustryWeek December 1, 2002 Patricia Panchak |
Technologies Of The Year -- Molecular Electronics Hewlett-Packard breakthrough could extend limits of silicon chips. |
Technology Research News October 22, 2003 |
Single electrons perform logic The ultimate in transistors, which turn on and off in response to a flow of electricity, is a device that can be tripped by a single electron. Researchers from Hokkaido University have put together an AND logic circuit made from four single-electron tunneling transistors. |
Chemistry World January 22, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
First Synchrotron for Neutral Molecules Scientists have built and demonstrated the first synchrotron to work on neutral molecules. It could be used to study collisions of cold, slow-moving molecules, allowing chemists to probe their behavior with a resolution impossible to achieve at higher temperatures. |
InternetNews August 17, 2009 |
IBM Looks to DNA for Chip-Building Tech Joint research with Caltech yields some astonishing results in the realm of nanoscale semiconductor components. |
Chemistry World March 9, 2006 Katharine Sanderson |
Covalent Bonds Crack Under the Strain Chemists must consider engineering principles when designing molecules following news that tough carbon-to-carbon bonds break easily under mechanical strain. |
Technology Research News June 29, 2005 |
Self-assembly: the natural way to make things In biology, there are a few different ways DNA molecules can be replicated and combined. |
IEEE Spectrum March 2011 Lucks & Arkin |
Synthetic Biology's Hunt for the Genetic Transistor How genetic circuits will unlock the true potential of bioengineering |
Technology Research News October 6, 2004 |
Design rules build on self-assembly Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed computer simulations that promise to speed the process of finding ways to build practical nanostructures, including precisely-structured materials, electronic and optical components, and chemical sensors. |
Chemistry World December 11, 2007 Lewis Brindley |
Chemists Fake Virus Capsids Scientists have made molecular 'tiles' that stick together, mimicking the football-like outer shell of a virus. Such self-assembling molecular capsules would be big enough to hold drug molecules and could provide new ways to make nanoparticles. |
Chemistry World July 24, 2008 Simon Hadlington |
Nanotube mesh boosts plastic electronics Circuits on light, flexible surfaces could provide a range of products from paper-thin displays to intelligent food packaging and smart clothing. |