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Graphene transistor goes vertical
New device can be switched on and off
Fri 3 Feb 12 from Nanotechweb
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10-Year-Old Accidentally Creates New Molecule in Science Class
Tetranitratoxycarbon Professor Robert Zoellner holds a model of tetranitratoxycarbon. He has a co-authorship on a paper about the new molecule--along with ten-year-old Clara Lazen. Humboldt ...
Fri 3 Feb 12 from Popular Science
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Olympus Opto-Digital Microscope features a touch screen monitor
Fri 3 Feb 12 from Ubergizmo
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Self-assembling nanorods: Researchers obtain 1-, 2- and 3-D nanorod arrays and networks
(PhysOrg.com) -- A relatively fast, easy and inexpensive technique for inducing nanorods - rod-shaped semiconductor nanocrystals - to self-assemble into one-, two- and even three-dimensional ...
Wed 1 Feb 12 from PhysOrg
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Pacemakers of tomorrow could be powered by the beating of the heart
A heart-powered pacemaker may sound counter-intuitive, but in essence this is precisely what aerospace engineers from the University of Michigan are proposing. The engineers have come up with ...
Fri 3 Feb 12 from Gizmag
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Powering pacemakers with heartbeat vibrations
Sick hearts may help to keep themselves beating longer with a device that could harvest energy from heartbeat-induced chest cavity vibrations.
Wed 1 Feb 12 from PhysOrg
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Researchers efficiently couple light from a plane wave into a surface plasmon mode
Researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology have made a grating coupler that transmits over 45 % of the incident optical energy from a plane wave into a single surface ...
Thu 2 Feb 12 from PhysOrg
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Microscopy reveals 'atomic antenna' behavior in graphene
Atomic-level defects in graphene could be a path forward to smaller and faster electronic devices, according to a study led by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Tue 31 Jan 12 from PhysOrg
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Electronic salmon sandwich is paving the way towards cost-effective DNA memory device
In order to find a method for more cost-effective data storage, a group of researchers from the DFG-Center for Functional Nanostructures (CFN) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) ...
Wed 1 Feb 12 from PhysOrg
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Researchers find molybdenite may be better suited for integrated logic circuits than graphene
(PhysOrg.com) -- Because of its physical limitations, silicon use in tiny integrated logic circuits will have to one day soon be replaced by something that can work in a smaller state. That ...
Wed 1 Feb 12 from PhysOrg
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