From the world of nanotechnology we've gotten electronic skin, or e-skin, and electronic eye implants or e-eyes. Now we're on the verge of electronic whiskers. Researchers with Berkeley Lab and the University of California (UC) Berkeley ...
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"Cool it!" That's a prime directive for microprocessor chips and a promising new solution to meeting this imperative is in the offing. Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley ...
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A carbon nanotube sponge capable of soaking up water contaminants, such as fertilisers, pesticides and pharmaceuticals, more than three times more efficiently than previous efforts has been presented in a new study published today. The ...
Using an approach akin to assembling a club sandwich at the nanoscale, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers have succeeded in crafting a uniform, multi-walled carbon-nanotube-based coating that greatly reduces ...
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This invention relates generally to capacitors comprising organized assemblies of carbon and non-carbon compounds. This invention further relates to methods of making such organized structures. It also relates to devices containing such ...
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DNA nanotechnology has become one of the great hopes of molecular manufacturing in which large-scale objects could potentially be assembled from the most basic building blocks, atom-by-atom. Research is slowly revealing that many of the ...
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Surrey NanoSystems' unique nanotechnology processing know-how has been used to deposit the world's blackest material on lightweight, temperature-sensitive substrates. Its new 'super black' coating can be applied to optical instruments for ...
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Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley have created touch-sensitive “electronic skin(e-skin)” through integrating three distinct electronic components including semiconducting carbon-nanotube transistors, ...
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The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted a patent to Nanomix's patent application relating to flexible nanostructure electronic devices, such as nanotube sensors and transistors, and method for fabricating. The patent allows ...
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Fulcrum SP Materials Ltd, a world leader in innovative nanotechnology for enhanced composite materials, signed a major commercial agreement with the world’s leading industrial thread and consumer textile crafts business, Coats plc. ...
Graphene sales growing at 40%, to pass $125m by 2020 22 Jan 2013 However, manufacturers will mostly remain in the lab, says Lux Research. Graphene, touted as the next wonder material because of its extraordinary properties, will grow ...
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been utilised to enhance the performance of water desalination technology. In particular, the smooth channels of CNTs facilitate improved flux in desalination. The application of CNTs in desalination is expected ...
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Carbon nanotubes will allow creation of nanoscale transistor devices IBM researchers have demostrated a new way of carbon nanotechnology which will help in commercial fabrication of smaller, faster and more powerful computer chips ...
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Military uniforms of the future may offer a new layer of critical protection to wearers thanks to research by teams at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and several other institutions who are developing a nanotube-based fabric that ...
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Scientists at IBM have showcased computer chips featuring carbon nanotube technology,and apparently built with standard manufacturing techniques. This new approach,hopes IBM,will open up the way for commercial mass-production of carbon ...
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