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Geotimes April 2007 Carolyn Gramling |
Ice Twists Under Pressure Confined inside tiny, hollow cylinders called carbon nanotubes, and subjected to high pressures similar to those found at a planet's core, water freezes into tiny ice spirals that resemble the DNA double helix, a new study shows. |
Chemistry World November 24, 2006 Richard Van Noorden |
Cooking up Nano-Fusilli Here's a new twist on nanotubes: chemists have found a set of organic molecules that spontaneously assemble themselves into a helical spiral with a hollow core. |
Chemistry World June 28, 2011 Simon Hadlington |
A Cool Way to Store Hydrogen? Theoretical chemists in the US have suggested a rather more commonplace solution to store hydrogen: ice. |
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. |
Chemistry World August 16, 2012 Samantha Cheung |
A handy way to sort carbon nanotubes US researchers have discovered that a derivative of vitamin B 2 can sort single-walled carbon nanotubes according to their handedness. The discovery could be an important step on the road to being able to simply separate left- and right-handed SWNTs. |
Chemistry World November 16, 2010 Philip Ball |
Water takes forbidden form Researchers say that when water is confined between two flat plates just 8.5 Angstroms apart - room enough for just two molecular layers - it can adopt a quasicrystalline state which appears to have a 'forbidden' twelve-fold symmetry. |
Technology Research News August 13, 2003 |
Carbon wires expand nano toolkit Scientists looking for building blocks to form electronics and machines that are not much bigger than molecules have gained a new tool. |
Chemistry World March 10, 2009 Alexander Hellemans |
Making pentagonal ice An international group of researchers have discovered that pentagonal structures of ice can be formed on copper surfaces consisting of Cu (110) substrates. |
Chemistry World June 14, 2013 Philip Ball |
Protons wander freely in icy gas giant cores If you squeeze ice hard enough, its protons fall off. That's the conclusion of a new study by Malcolm Guthrie of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and colleagues. |
Technology Research News January 12, 2005 |
Nano Gas Turbine Designed One especially useful component of a microscopic machine would be a motor. Researchers have worked out how a nanoscale gas turbine made from nanotubes would work. |
Chemistry World January 26, 2011 Mike Brown |
Carbon nanotubes for hydrogen storage Researchers in Germany have designed a 3D carbon-based nanotube matrix that can store and release hydrogen extremely efficiently. The material could form the basis of a sustainable hydrogen economy, they say. |
Chemistry World February 13, 2014 Philip Ball |
Ice core to antifreeze protein's inner workings The antifreeze protein that protects the winter flounder from sub-zero temperatures has been found to have an odd structure. |
Technology Research News May 21, 2003 |
Nanotubes smash length record Duke University researchers produced nanotubes as long as two millimeters, which is 100 times longer than previous efforts. Nanotubes have great potential as components of nanomachines and nanoelectronics. |
Chemistry World November 1, 2009 Phillip Broadwith |
Acid solution for nanotube fibres US researchers have found new ways of dissolving carbon nanotubes without chemically modifying them. |
Chemistry World March 15, 2010 James Urquhart |
All aboard the DNA nanotube Cargo-carrying DNA nanotubes that can rapidly release their load on demand have been made for the first time by Canadian researchers. |
Chemistry World January 9, 2012 Simon Hadlington |
A question mark over cubic ice's existence Chemistry textbooks may have to be rewritten after scientists in the UK showed that an exotic type of ice crystal formed from supercooled water has probably been misidentified and might not exist. |
Technology Research News February 25, 2004 |
Nanotube mix makes liquid crystal Carbon nanotubes are rolled-up sheets of carbon atoms that can be as narrow as 0.4 nanometers, or the span of four hydrogen atoms. They have useful electrical and mechanical properties and are a leading player in nanotechnology. |
Chemistry World September 20, 2012 Jon Evans |
World's smallest ice cube created Ice crystals must contain at least 275 water molecules, say German chemists. This size limit has implications for any process that involves ice particles, from cloud formation to making the perfect gin and tonic. |
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 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 March 9, 2005 |
Method Makes Double Nanotubes Researchers can now fabricate pure batches of double-walled carbon nanotubes, which theoretically should be more thermally and chemically stable than single walled nanotubes. |
Technology Research News May 5, 2004 |
Nano Test Tubes Fabricated Researchers have found a way to make minuscule test tubes from carbon and silica nanotubes. |
Technology Research News August 10, 2005 |
Templates yield nano branches Making highly-branched nanoscale tubes and wires is a matter of easing off the juice by the right amount at the right time. |
Chemistry World September 29, 2009 Lewis Brindley |
Super-thin nanowires made inside nanotubes Japanese researchers have made ultra-thin metal wires by growing them inside carbon nanotubes. |
Chemistry World July 23, 2009 Hayley Birch |
Nanotube growth caught on camera French and US researchers have produced the first video evidence that carbon nanotubes turn as they grow. |
Reactive Reports Issue 72 David Bradley |
Ice Age the Movie The ordered structure of ice dissolves little by little into disorder when a tiny burst of light hits an ice crystal. |
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. |
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. |
Science News November 25, 2006 |
Science Safari: Snow Crystals A Web site, created by a physicist, provides an introduction to the physics of snowflake formation, information on growing snowflakes, and ideas for snow and ice activities. |
Chemistry World October 10, 2008 Simon Hadlington |
Glue beats gecko's sticking power A carbon nanotube-based material has smashed records for sticking power to a vertical surface, and it can be easily peeled away too. |
Technology Research News November 19, 2003 |
Model leverages nano tethers Researchers from the University of Michigan have shown in computer simulations that it is possible to cause structures like sheets, wires and tubes to spontaneously assemble by starting with nanoparticles that have long, tether-like molecules attached, then causing the tethers and nanoparticles to part. |
Technology Research News April 7, 2004 |
Fiber spun from nanotube smoke Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England have developed a relatively simple way to manufacture continuous fibers of carbon nanotubes. |
Chemistry World May 24, 2013 Andy Extance |
Templates ring up uniform nanotubes Nanoring templates can set carbon nanotube diameters, an ability whose previous absence has held back nanotube use in electronic applications. |
Chemistry World March 27, 2015 James Urquhart |
Graphene sandwich turns water square Sandwiching water between two sheets of graphene leads to it freezing at room temperature to form two-dimensional square ice crystals, a hitherto unknown phase of ice. |
Chemistry World October 20, 2015 Philip Ball |
Nanotube desalination could be put back on track Computer simulations by researchers in China show what seems to be holding up this technology -- and suggest a way round the problem. |
Technology Research News October 8, 2003 |
Nanotubes harvest electrons Researchers from the University of Bologna and the University of Trieste in Italy, and the University of Notre Dame have found a way to alter carbon nanotubes so that they efficiently separate electrical charge. The method could lead to more efficient solar cells. |
Technology Research News October 8, 2003 |
Nanotubes boost storage Scientists from IBM Research in Zurich, Osaka Prefecture University in Japan, and the Japanese Nanotechnology Research Institute have advanced the possibilities of using multiwalled carbon nanotubes to make denser, more efficient data storage devices. |
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. |
Technology Research News July 16, 2003 |
Nano toolbox gains carbon cones Researchers have come up with a useful twist on carbon nanotubes. Their nano pipettes grow thicker at one end to form microscopic cones that have central channels. |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum March 2009 Neil Savage |
Superstrong Artificial Muscles and More From New Nanotube Material Sheets of carbon nanotubes could make strong, stretchy artificial muscles with amazing properties |
Chemistry World March 11, 2009 Phillip Broadwith |
Building nano-scale electronic contacts An international team of researchers has discovered a way of firmly 'welding' carbon nanotubes to metal particles that could lead to new nano-scale electronic contacts. |
Geotimes May 2007 Carolyn Gramling |
Lava Cooks up Carbon Nanotubes Mount Etna may be a fiery factory for one of the most sought-after tools of nanotechnology: tiny carbon nanotubes. |
Chemistry World September 20, 2012 Ian Le Guillou |
Self-assembling, squeezy nanotubes made Researchers have developed dynamic nanotubes that open and shut depending on temperature. |
Technology Research News November 3, 2004 |
Nanotubes Lengthen to Centimeters Researchers have found a way to grow very long carbon nanotubes. One long-range possibility is using ultralong carbon nanotubes fibers to make an elevator to low Earth orbit. |
Reactive Reports Issue 34 David Bradley |
Sandwiched nanotubes Ferrocene-modified carbon nanotubes can separate charge |
Chemistry World August 27, 2013 Mark Peplow |
Self-assembling yarn shows its strength It is soft, strong and very, very long. Chinese chemists have created meters of a yarn that self-assembles from nothing more than a mixture of simple monomers in water. |
Technology Research News June 30, 2004 |
Nanotubes boost neuron growth The method is a step toward neuron-electronic interfaces that would allow for direct biological control of computers and prosthetic devices. |
Chemistry World July 15, 2013 Eleanor Merritt |
A chemical approach to biological antifreeze Scientists in New Zealand and the US have synthesized a protein that helps inhibit ice crystal growth in Antarctic fish. |
PC Magazine February 14, 2007 Stanley Warren |
Miniature Masterpieces: Carbon Nanotubes For one scientist, carbon nanotubes become a way to create sculptures on the atomic scale. |