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'White graphene' to the rescue: Hexagonal boron nitride sheets may help graphene supplant silicon
What researchers might call "white graphene" may be the perfect sidekick for the real thing as a new era unfolds in nanoscale electronics.
17 minutes ago from PhysOrg
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Fly Eye Paves the Way for Manufacturing Biomimetic Surfaces
(PhysOrg.com) -- Rows of tiny raised blowfly corneas may be the key to easy manufacturing of biomimetic surfaces, surfaces that mimic the properties of biological tissues, according to a team ...
Tue 27 Jul 10 from PhysOrg
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Intel Milestone Confirms Light Beams Can Replace Electronic Signals for Future Computers
(PhysOrg.com) -- Intel today announced an important advance in the quest to use light beams to replace the use of electrons to carry data in and around computers.
Tue 27 Jul 10 from PhysOrg
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Cheaper substrates made of oxide materials
Imagine building cheaper electronics on a variety of substrates -- materials like plastic, paper, or fabric. Researchers at Taiwan's National Chiao Tung University have made a discovery that ...
Tue 27 Jul 10 from PhysOrg
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First step toward electronic DNA sequencing: Translocation through graphene nanopores
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a new, carbon-based nanoscale platform to electrically detect single DNA molecules.
Mon 26 Jul 10 from PhysOrg
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Nanoparticles Increase Intensity of Quantum Dots' Glow
(PhysOrg.com) -- Demonstration of precision DNA-based nanoassembly method for making light-emitting particle clusters could lead to advances in solar cells, optoelectronics, and biosensors
Mon 26 Jul 10 from PhysOrg
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Nanowick at heart of new system to cool 'power electronics'
Researchers have shown that an advanced cooling technology being developed for high-power electronics in military and automotive systems is capable of handling roughly 10 times the heat generated ...
Thu 22 Jul 10 from PhysOrg
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Simpler method for building varieties of nanocrystal superlattices
Collaboration by chemists, physicists and materials scientists at the University of Pennsylvania has created a simple and inexpensive method to rapidly grow centimeter-scale membranes of binary ...
Thu 22 Jul 10 from PhysOrg
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New technique opens a gap in graphene
Nanoribbons have armchair edges
Thu 22 Jul 10 from Nanotechweb
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Engineering researchers simplify process to make world's tiniest wires
(PhysOrg.com) -- Surface tension isn't a very powerful force, but it matters for small things - water bugs, paint, and, it turns out, nanowires.
Wed 21 Jul 10 from PhysOrg
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