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Nanotubes pass acid test
Rice University scientists have found the "ultimate" solvent for all kinds of carbon nanotubes (CNTs), a breakthrough that brings the creation of a highly conductive quantum nanowire ever closer.
Magnets trump metallics
Metallic carbon nanotubes show great promise for applications from microelectronics to power lines because of their ballistic transmission of electrons. But new research shows magnets can stop the migration of the electrons.
Graphene oxide gets green
A paper from the lab of Rice chemist James Tour demonstrates an environmentally friendly way to make bulk quantities of graphene oxide (GO), an insulating version of single-atom-thick graphene expected to find use in all kinds of material and electronic applications.
A direct-write approach
A new study has explored the best way to produce small wire bonds that connect integrated chips through a direct-write approach.
Protochips Announces Poseidon(TM)
Raleigh, NC, July 29, 2010 - Protochips, a company specializing in revolutionary products for in situ electron microscopy, today announced a new launch

Infrared nanospectroscopy with the atomic force microscope
Interview with: Craig Prater; Chief Technical Officer for Anasys Instruments, Santa Barbara, USA
Chemistry and material science at the cell surface
Interview with: Assistant Professor Jeffrey Karp; Harvard Medical School, USA
Immunosensing using nanoparticles
Interview with: Professor Arben Merkoçi; ICREA & ICN, Spain
Polymer Research for Renewable Energy and Clean Water
Interview with: Assistant Professor Michael Hickner; Pennsylvania State University, USA

Tools & Techniques for Nanomechanical Testing of Biomaterials: Part II: Softer Biomaterial Applications
In the next part of the Hysitron Webinar Series, we continue to examine a more focused group of applications relating to the study of biomaterials.
Tools & Techniques for Nanomechanical Testing of Biomaterials
In part 3 of the Hysitron Webinar Series, we examine a more focused group of applications relating to the study of biomaterials.
Developments in Quantitative EDS Analysis
This webinar will deal with some of the basic and advanced developments in EDS analysis and address some of the peculiarities of the technique.
Nanoscale Biomaterials Deposition: Learning to speak the language of biology
We invite you to join a web based discussion on new methods for patterning biological systems onto a variety of surfaces at nano- and micro-scale resolution.

To tweet or not to tweet
Posted by Jonathan Agbenyega • 04 February 2010
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Shape memory materials
After being severely and quasi-plastically distorted, shape memory materials (SMMs) are able to recover their original shape at the presence of the right stimulus.
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Paradigms, peers, and patents
With so many obstacles to overcome, is science a good career choice?
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Chemical sensitivity of porphyrin assemblies
Porphyrins show unique binding properties that are widely exploited in nature to accomplish essential functions for life; the potential mimic of these functions with synthetic counterparts has provided the basis of many kinds of chemical sensors.
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Metal oxide nanowires as chemical sensors
It is almost a decade since the first presentation of metal oxide nanowires as chemical sensors.
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ThinFilmID
ThinFilmID software determines in-situ composition and thickness of thin film structures.
Safety first with UV light
New Control of Artificial Optical Radiation at Work Regulations 2010, brought into law in Great Britain on 27th April 2010, the occupational UV light exposure limits specified by the EU Optical Radiation Directive 2006/25/EC
Semiconductor nanowire devices
In the past ten years the idea of using self-assembled nanostructures to overcome the limitations of top-down fabrication approach was the driving force behind the tremendous interest in semiconducting nanowires and nanotubes.
Carbon nanotube-based neat fibers
Macroscopic fibers containing only Carbon NanoTubes (CNTs) will yield great advances in high-tech applications if they can attain a significant portion of the extraordinary mechanical and electrical properties of individual CNTs.
Spiderman gloves
Theoretical van der Waals gloves could generate an adhesion force comparable to the body weight of 500 men.

Graphene: carbon in two dimensions • Review article
Materials Today, Volume 10, Issue 1-2, January 2007, Pages 20-27 | Katsnelson, M.I.
Polymer-based solar cells • Review article
Materials Today, Volume 10, Issue 11, November 2007, Pages 28-33 | Mayer, A.C.; Scully, S.R.; Hardin, B.E.; Rowell, M.W.; McGehee, M.D.
ZnO - nanostructures, defects, and devices
Materials Today, Volume 10, Issue 5, May 2007, Pages 40-48 | Schmidt-Mende, L.; MacManus-Driscoll, J.L.
III-V compound SC for optoelectronic devices • Review article
Materials Today, Volume 12, Issue 4, April 2009, Pages 22-32 | Mokkapati, S.; Jagadish, C.
Nanostructures of zinc oxide
Materials Today, Volume 7, Issue 6, June 2004, Pages 26-33 | Wang, Z.L.

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