New research describes a device and method which enables the ambient temperature production of 100nm fibres in a commercially attractive way.
Micro-/Nanotechnology
Quantum dots & nanotubes make alternative transistors
New electronics harness quantum tunnelling to create transistors without semiconductors.
Mark Allen is first scientific director of Singh Center for Nanotechnology
Mark G. Allen has been named the inaugural scientific director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology.
Plasmonic transducer can measure motion on the nanoscale
Researchers confine plasmons in a resonant cavity only 20 nanometers wide to precisely measure mechanical motion smaller than the size of an atom.
SRC-NIST award to fund nanoelectronics research in Texas
The Semiconductor Research Corporation and the National Institute of Standards and Technology have awarded UT Austin a $7.8 million nanoelectronics award.
NanoGEM group releases nanotoxicity findings
19 research institutions and companies release results of three years worth of study on 16 different nanomaterials.
Nanoscale heat dissipation now better understood
An international research team has shown the unique ways in which heat dissipates at the tiniest scales.
"Nano-volcanoes" for precise materials storage
New nanostructures can store precise amounts of other materials and hold promise for new drug-delivery technologies.
Researchers use polymer structures as nanoreactors
Technique produces nanocrystals with consistent sizes, compositions and architectures.
Detecting molecular magnetic resonance with carbon nanotubes
Scientists measure weak forces with sensitivity 50 times higher than what has been achieved to date.
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