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by Dr. Joseph Kim on August 20, 2008
How cool does that sound? Researcher Steven Novack with the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory led the team that developed this material that could draw away heat and collect en...
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by Dr. Joseph Kim on June 27, 2008
Do you know what an exciton is? Excitons are formed by linking a negatively-charged electron with a positively-charged "hole". An exciton decays when the electron and hole combine, emitting...
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by Dr. Joseph Kim on June 19, 2008
How small is a molecule? The answer depends on the type of molecule. Researchers at the Michigan Technological University (Department of Physics) and the Advanced Nano Characterization Center (Nation...
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by Dr. Joseph Kim on May 27, 2008
Everyone relies on batteries. In fact, almost everyone living in industrialized nations rely on rechargeable batteries. Think about all those people using mobile phones. Thankfully, these devices las...
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by Dr. Joseph Kim on May 21, 2008
It still amazes me when I think about mobile hard drive technology. Currently, 2.5" hard drives with 320 GB capacity sell for roughly 130-150 USD. My old IBM ThinkPad 760 EL that I purchased in ...
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by george elvin on December 27, 2006
Nanotechnology may be bringing a bit of science fiction closer to reality with the advent of "invisible" electronics.
"You can imagine a variety of applications for new electronics th...
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by george elvin on December 3, 2006
The bottom-up construction of molecular computers has come one step nearer with the development of a plug-and-socket molecular system that is an analog of a macroscopic electrical extension cord, says...
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by george elvin on September 26, 2006
A story in yesterday's New York Times is touting nanotechnology as the answer to that Holy Grail of personal computing, the instant boot up.
"This technology could enable instant-on compute...
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by george elvin on July 19, 2006
In another reminder that nanotechnology is all around us, Samsung has begun mass producing an 8-Gigabit (Gb) NAND flash memory device, providing a much larger and more affordable storage density for c...
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by george elvin on July 17, 2006
Researchers at the University of Toronto have created a semiconductor device that outperforms today's conventional chips -- and they made it simply by painting a liquid onto a piece of glass. The ...
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by george elvin on February 22, 2006
One of the most talked about long-term benefits of nanotechnology is its potential to augment human performance by integrating nanoscale computation and communication hardware into the human brain an...
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by george elvin on December 31, 2005
Nanotube-based/ Nonvolatile RAM (NRAM) by Nantero is bringing the idea of " universal memory " , which experts estimate could make it possible within 20 years to fit the content of all the D...
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by george elvin on December 13, 2005
A team of researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology recently sent a message unlike any other in history. The sender and receiver were single atoms, and the " message " was a single ph...
