Some have dissed the iPhone 7 for being too similar to the 6S. But a new patent shows that Apple may have an interesting direction for a future iPhone. The US Patent and Trademark Office granted a patent to Apple on Tuesday for a bendable ...
A research team led by faculty scientist Ali Javey at the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has created a transistor with a gate length (the defining dimension of a transistor) just 1nm long, ...
For decades, researchers have tried to harness the unique properties of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) to create high-performance electronics that are faster or consume less power — resulting in longer battery life, faster wireless ...
The world-renowned journal Nature Thursday released its annual list of ten people who mattered in science in 2015, which includes one Chinese scientist whose work in human embryo gene editing has caused repeated debate in the academic ...
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Sherwin-Williams colormix 2016 collection, unveiled today, anticipates the optimistic spirit of 2015 will continue to drive trends in the world of color. The annual Sherwin-Williams color forecast collection cultivates this positive outlook ...
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Toyocolor Co., Ltd. President and Representative Director Hironori Sakai announced that the company will showcase a new lineup of carbon nanotube (CNT)-related materials at nano tech 2015, the 14th International Nanotechnology Exhibition & ...
Following its Manufacturing Advanced Functional Materials (MAFuMa) call issued in February, the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has awarded £20m to 10 new research projects that aim to advance the ...
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Tesla Nanocoatings is expanding production of its Teslan brand of nanocoatings, a corrosion-resistant coating for structural steel, produced with SMW Specialty Multi-wall Carbon Nanotubes developed by SouthWest NanoTechnologies (SWeNT). ...
Japanese scientists have developed an ultra-efficient flat light source that has the potential to be more efficient than the LED. In the Review of Scientific Instruments, scientists from Tohuko University in Japan describe the fabrication ...
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Aaron Franklin has joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, with a joint appointment in the Department of Chemistry. Leaving IBM's research enterprise for a ...
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IBM is investing $3bn over the next 5 years in two broad research and early-stage development programs to push the limits of chip technology needed to meet the emerging demands of cloud computing and ‘big data’ systems. The ...
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Multilayer carbon nanotube capacitors, and methods and printable compositions for manufacturing multilayer carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are disclosed. A first capacitor embodiment includes: a first conductor; a plurality of fixed CNTs in an ...
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Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have developed a novel nanometer scale ruthenium oxide anchored nanocarbon grapheneGraphene is an allotrope of carbon, whose structure is one-atom-thick planar sheets of sp2-bonded ...
On a pound-per-pound basis, carbon nanotube-based fibers invented at Rice University have greater capacity to carry electrical current than copper cables of the same mass, according to new research. While individual nanotubes are ...
Computer chips used in next-generation smartphones and supercomputers can't get much faster without overheating.That's why engineers hope carbon nanotubes offer a possible cooling solution that could enable processing speeds to continue ...