Researchers at MIT have copied the structure of a beetle's wings to make surfaces with hydrophilic/superhydrophobic patterning, says a report at nanotechweb.org: The Stenocara beetle, which lives...
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There may not be a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, but there appears to be nanocrystalline diamonds at the end of a process to produce and store hydrogen using Anthracite coal, according to a...
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QD Vision, Inc. announced it has manufactured the world's first quantum dot display ("QD Display"). The company said in a press release that the monochrome display demonstrates the...
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Changing a surface from sticky to slippery could now be as easy as flipping a molecular light switch. Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have created an "optically...
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Scientists in the US have combined spider silk with biological silica to make an extremely strong composite nanomaterial that could be used in industrial and medical applications. The new...
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Talk about a product that can do it all . . . A chemist at Washington University in St. Louis has developed a remarkable nanostructured material that can repel pests, sweeten the air, and some day...
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A switch so small it can move DNA fragments could lead to deeper integration of biological and human-made materials. The researchers used a type of molecular motor known as a...
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Researchers at Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis have developed a way to make highly fluorescent quantum dots using sonic energy. Led by Christoph Naumann, Ph.D., and Bruce Young,...
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Researchers at Cornell University and the University of California, Davis, have discovered a method that stitches together porous membranes and bacteria-killing polymer molecules called halamides....
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It won't be long until the expression "nanotechnology is all around us" becomes the literal truth. Nanocoatings are being painted on walls, cars, and just about everything else. The...
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If you thought the reversible sportcoat was spiffy, just wait until nanotechnology gets hold of your wardrobe. Researchers have plans to create clothing that will check your vital signs, monitor your...
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Fingerprints, Super Glue and tortellini may sound like an odd mix of characters, especially for a report published in The Royal Society of Chemistry journal, Chemical Communications. But they each...
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"For most physicists, the idea of materials held together by light is still foreign," says Colin Bain of Durham University. But materials held together by light are exactly what Bain and...
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A decade-old nanotech mystery has been solved by a Princeton research team, and their surprising conclusions may lead to new methods for the guided self-assembly of nanoparticles. For more than ten...
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Never-before-seen, three-dimensional nanoscale structures are coming out of a lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, thanks to an international research team's discovery that materials known...
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Scientists at Virginia Tech have taken a big stride toward self-assembly in nanomaterials by creating nonwoven fibrous mats from a small organic molecule in a single step. The result is a new...
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Carbon nanotubes used in the electronics for such devices as cell phones might have a longer life thanks to a strengthening technique pioneered by researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National...
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Easychairs overstuffed with plush foam cushioning may not be as harmful as they' re made out to be in Monty Python' s " Spanish Inquisition " skits, but their foam rubber stuffing is...
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Nanotechnology is sometimes seen as all hype, with little real-world application. But nanomaterials are already all around us. Take the buildings that we live and work in, for instance. You' ll...
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A team at the University of Liverpool has devised a new manufacturing process for fabricating metals by weaving them into ultra-fine lattice structures weighing just half as much as conventional steel...
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A photographic film made up of living bacteria has been created by researchers at the University of California at San Francisco. The researchers created the 100 megapixel resolution print at left by...
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It seems that every month there's a new "world's hardest material" coming out the nanotech labs. Now the record has been broken again by researchers at israel's Bar-Ilan...
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