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NASA Looking to Tiny Technology for Big Payoffs

Technology Org   -   Scientific News Websites

NASA is advancing technology that could use large amounts of nanoscale materials to launch lighter rockets and spacecraft

Oct 31, 2018

Scene at MIT: Happy Nanoween

MIT News   -   Organizations and Universities Websites

A grad student's research project unexpectedly yields a spooky message made from millions of carbon nanotubes.

Oct 31, 2018

2D magnetism: Atom-thick platforms for energy, information and computing research

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

A class of 2D magnetic materials -- known as van der Waals materials -- may offer one of the most ambitious platforms yet to understand and control phases of matter at the nanoscale.

Oct 31, 2018

The materials engineers are developing environmentally friendly materials

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Recently the research article "A method for producing conductive graphene biopolymer nanofibrous fabrics by exploitation of an ionic liquid dispersant in electrospinning" written by the researchers of Tallinn University of Technology was...

Oct 31, 2018

A bullet-proof heating pad

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Sometimes nothing feels better on stiff, aching joints than a little heat. But many heating pads and wraps are rigid and provide uneven warmth, especially when the person is moving around. Researchers have now made a wearable heater by modifying w...

Oct 31, 2018

Sussex breakthrough prepares quantum computers to leave the lab

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Breakthrough, which uses microwave technology, will ensure quantum computers can operate under realistic conditions, bringing us closer to the realisation of commercial quantum computing.

Oct 31, 2018

Ultrasensitive toxic gas detector

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In a paper published in NANO, researchers from the School of Microelectronics in Tianjin University have discovered a two-step sputtering and subsequent annealing treatment method to prepare vertically aligned WO3-CuO core-shell nanorod arrays whi...

Oct 31, 2018

Eco-friendly waterproof polymer films synthesized using novel method

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In a NANO paper published in NANO, a researcher from the Department of Chemistry at Myongji University has applied a novel method to control the wettability of polymeric substrates, which has numerous practical implications.

Oct 31, 2018

High Precision Multi-Axis Motion with Hexapod 6-Axis Systems

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

PI's new 130 page catalog provides background information and features a variety of Hexapod (Stewart-Platform) motion and positioning systems with 6 degrees of freedom and high resolution and repeatability in the sub-micrometer and even nanom...

Oct 30, 2018

Making a transparent flexible material of silk and nanotubes

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Engineeers find that nanotube interactions with silk fibroins hold the key to developing flexible, degradable electronics.

Oct 30, 2018

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