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Technology Research News
June 2, 2004 |
Plastic Nanowires Sense Gasses Cornell University researchers have devised a simple way to position conducting polymer nanowires on an electrode, and have made a prototype high-speed chemical detector that is capable of sensing minuscule amounts of ammonia gas.   |
Technology Research News
March 24, 2004 |
Nanowires span silicon contacts One challenge in making electronics at the size-scale of molecules is finding ways to position and attach nanowires to the tiny components. Researchers from Hewlett-Packard Laboratories have succeeded in growning nanowires between electrodes. |
Technology Research News
March 26, 2003 |
Tilted trenches turn out tiny wires Researchers from UCLA, UCSB, and Cal Tech have found a way to make arrays of closely-spaced and crossed metal and semiconductor nanowires. |
Technology Research News
August 25, 2004 |
Hybrid Nanowire Makes Transistor One challenge in making minuscule electronic devices from nanoscale components is wiring the components together. Researchers have found a way to transform sections of semiconducting silicon nanowires into metallic, or conducting, nickel silicide. |
Chemistry World
November 9, 2009
Lewis Brindley |
Microscopic springs made from nanotube composite Researchers in the US have developed a way to rapidly make tiny 3D objects out of a carbon nanotube-enriched polymer, using UV light to quickly set the structure in place. |
Technology Research News
October 6, 2004 |
Crystal structure tunes nanowires A new process that controls the crystal structure of nanowires made from specific semiconductors may enable electronic components, such as light-emitting diodes and laser diodes, with tunable properties. |
Technology Research News
June 16, 2004 |
Silicon Nanowires Grown in Place Researchers have found a way to grow nanowires between pairs of metal electrodes deposited on silicon wafers. |
Chemistry World
August 8, 2014
Jennifer Newton |
Graphene springs into action Researchers in China are hoping to expand the unconventional applications of graphene with their introduction of graphene springs that can function as actuators. |
Technology Research News
July 2, 2003 |
Process puts nanotubes in place University of California at Berkeley researchers have found a way to grow silicon nanowires and carbon nanotubes directly on delicate microelectronic components. |
Chemistry World
February 7, 2012
Simon Hadlington |
Nano-welding with a light touch US researchers have found a new way to weld together metal nanowires - simply by bathing them in white light. |
Chemistry World
December 4, 2007
Richard Van Noorden |
Polymer Chemistry Tackles Implant Concerns Advances in polymer chemistry could help resolve safety concerns surrounding body implants, such as stents to hold open clogged arteries, scientists heard at the Materials Research Society Fall meeting. |
Technology Research News
October 8, 2003 |
Process orders nanowire arrays Harvard University researchers have found a way to neatly layer and pattern rows of nanowires. |
Chemistry World
September 14, 2010
Simon Hadlington |
Artificial skin gets touchy New ways of incorporating pressure sensors into large, flexible surfaces which could one day provide robots or people fitted with artificial hands with a delicate sense of touch |
Technology Research News
July 30, 2003 |
Crystal cracks nurture nanowires Researchers from the University of Tokyo in Japan have devised a way to form titanium nanowires within an intentionally flawed sapphire. |
Chemistry World
February 10, 2014
Ian Randall |
Polymer puts a new twist on soft robotics Twisted polymer springs capable of turning light energy into mechanical movement have been developed by researchers from the Netherlands and the UK. |
Technology Research News
July 13, 2005 |
Self-Assembly Goes Around Bends Researchers have found a way a way to make polymer chains automatically assemble in non-regular patterns, including sharp angles. The method could eventually be used to build precise features as small as ten nanometers. |
Chemistry World
August 18, 2008 |
Patterning Promise for Next-Gen Computers Breakthroughs in controlling the way polymers self-assemble on surfaces could be key to making the next generation of computer components, say two teams in the US. |
Chemistry World
September 11, 2009
Tom Bond |
Just heat and heal A polymer system based on weak, reversible bonds that can heal itself when heated has been created by UK and US chemists. The new polymers could be further developed and used in the aerospace and other industries, say the researchers. |
Technology Research News
December 17, 2003
Eric Smalley |
Microfluidics make flat screens A new method for making big, cheap flat screen displays is a bit like making muffins. Pour liquid polymer into microfluidic channels aligned above an array of electrodes, let cure, and you have organic thin film transistors. |
Chemistry World
October 11, 2007
Jonathan Edwards |
'Tuneable' Polymer Can Separate Anything An international team of scientists have made a polymer with pores which can be fine-tuned to speedily separate different small molecules -- with applications ranging from carbon capture to fuel cells. |
Technology Research News
May 21, 2003
Eric Smalley |
Flexible display slims down Researchers from E Ink Corp. have produced a high-resolution electronic display that is 0.3 millimeters thick. |
Chemistry World
March 22, 2012
Charlie Quigg |
Roll up, roll up! Scientists in India - inspired by research on making water run uphill - have developed a technique that enables a polymer cylinder to not only autonomously climb an incline but carry a weight with it. |
Chemistry World
September 30, 2011
Simon Hadlington |
Solving a Tangled Polymer Problem Being able to predict how polymer chain interact could help to produce plastics with tailor made properties. |
Reactive Reports
September 2005
David Bradley |
Nano Surprise A surprising mechanism by which polymers form nanocomposite particles could provide researchers with a new tool for controlling the growth of such materials. |
Technology Research News
July 30, 2003 |
Nano light stores data in polymer Researchers from the University of Pisa in Italy have shown that it is possible to write lots of information in very little space using a thin film of polymer and polarized blue light. |
Chemistry World
March 8, 2009
Nina Notman |
Polymer Crossroads Act as Tiny Reactors Scientists in the US have taken inspiration from a Dutch painter to create ultrasmall chemical reactors at the junctions of overlapping polymer nanofibres |
