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Nanotechnology and Digital Storage
in Nanotechbuzz, on May 21, 2008
...ufacturers to build faster computer memory. Nanostructures like quantum dots, carbon nanotubes, and nanowires may be far superior to silicon-based memory....
Enroute to an environment friendly source of power
in Tech Without Wires, on January 12, 2008
... California - Berkeley scientists titled "Enhanced thermoelectric performance of rough silicon nanowires". What this potentially means is that power can be harnessed from our own body he...
Novel Nano-sized Light Source, Invented
in The Biotech Weblog, on July 7, 2007
...ist Peidong Yang, one of the project's principal investigators:
"Working with individual nanowires, we've developed the first electrode-free, continuously tunable coherent visible light...
Architectural applications of nanotechnology raise new issues
in Nanotechbuzz, on November 11, 2006
...erials we will see conventional materials like concrete and steel reinforced with nanoparticles and nanowires. That should allow even conservative contractors the opportunity to ease into the world of...
Nanogenerators get their power from body movement, blood flow
in Nanotechbuzz, on September 5, 2006
...xide nanowire and a nanowire belt. In earlier research, Wang's group discovered that zinc oxide nanowires produce electricity via a long-known phenomenon termed the pizoelectric effect. It occurs ...
Nanowire "paper" creates 3D objects
in Nanotechbuzz, on August 23, 2006
...College of Arts and Sciences.
Tian and his team used a hydrothermal heating process to create long nanowires out of titanium dioxide and from there created free-standing membranes. The resulting mate...
Wired Earth
in IfEnergy, on August 22, 2006
...cess energy in the form of electrons. By depriving these microbes of something they need, they form nanowires that reach out and connect cells from one to another form thus constituting an electricall...
Nanoscale views for the technically minded
in Nanotechbuzz, on August 5, 2006
...cale. Recently, he's been developing a novel fabrication technique allowing the construction of nanowires with widths substantially below 10 nanometers, a previously unexplored scale for such devi...
Bacteria-powered batteries
in Nanotechbuzz, on July 13, 2006
...created small bacteria-powered batteries by causing tiny microbes to sprout electrically conductive nanowires from their cell membranes.
"Earth appears to be hard-wired," said Yuri Gorby, ...
Nanotubes act as micro metalworking tools
in Nanotechbuzz, on June 19, 2006
...r of Materials Science and Engineering at Rensselaer.
The researchers filled carbon nanotubes with nanowires made from two extremely hard materials: iron and iron carbide. When irradiated with an ele...
American Society for Microbiology Meeting Highlights Energy-Producing Bacteria
in The Biotech Weblog, on May 24, 2006
...a : The researchers discovered that the bacteria produce conductive protein filaments, or pili 'nanowires,' to transfer electrons, which I have written about previously . Further, they found ...
Nanotech tops physics top ten topics survey
in Nanotechbuzz, on May 24, 2006
...ics in physics, based on a larger dataset from Banks' original paper :
1. carbon nanotubes
2. nanowires
3. quantum dots
4. fullerenes
5. giant magnetoresistance
6. M-theory
7. quantum computatio...
Nanowire electrodes for brain enhancement
in Nanotechbuzz, on May 3, 2006
...steerable electrodes by using a polymer that contracts in response to electricity. A bundle of such nanowires could be directed by causing selected nanowires to contract.
The researchers think that, ...
Engineered viruses assemble batteries
in Nanotechbuzz, on April 21, 2006
... Now researchers at MIT have devised a way to use genetically engineered viruses as scaffolding for nanowires to make ultra-thin, transparent battery electrodes that store nearly three times as much e...
Implanted nanogenerators powered by human movement
in Nanotechbuzz, on April 19, 2006
...otype nanogenerator that produces electrical current through the bending and relaxing of zinc oxide nanowires.
When the nanowires flex , they emit a piezoelectric discharge, which is electricit...
Nanogenerator creates electricity
in Nanotechbuzz, on April 15, 2006
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Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed nanotechnology out of tiny nanowires that generate electricity when they vibrate, according to a report at All New Headlines.
Imagine the mech...
Nanowires For Detecting Cancer Biomarkers
in The Biotech Weblog, on September 26, 2005
...the October Issue of Nature Biotechnology , Harvard Universtity researchers report on the use of nanowires in detecting biomarkers for cancer in blood samples. In addition to its accuracy and sensi...
Microbially-Produced Electrical Wires
in The Biotech Weblog, on July 8, 2005
...Lovley and his research group reports findings that conductive structures, known as "microbial nanowires," are produced by Geobacter . The nanowires are incredibly fine, only 3-5 nanometers ...