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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Perfect nanotubes shine brightest
A painstaking study by Rice University has brought a wealth of new information about single-walled carbon nanotubes through analysis of their fluorescence.
Tue 31 Jan 12 from PhysOrg
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Bright lights of purity: Researchers discover why pure quantum dots and nanorods shine brighter
To the lengthy list of serendipitous discoveries – gravity, penicillin, the New World – add this: Scientists with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have discovered ...
Mon 30 Jan 12 from PhysOrg
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Ultra-fast photodetector and terahertz generator
Photodetectors made from graphene can process and conduct light signals as well as electric signals extremely fast. Within picoseconds the optical stimulation of graphene generates a photocurrent. ...
Tue 31 Jan 12 from PhysOrg
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'Russian doll' polymer vesicles mimic cell structure
Nanomedicine faces two main challenges: controlling the synthesis of extremely small vectors containing one or several active ingredients and releasing these agents in the right place at the ...
Tue 31 Jan 12 from PhysOrg
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Shaken, not heated: The ideal recipe for manipulating magnetism
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have found a way to distort the atomic arrangement and change the magnetic properties of an important class of electronic materials with ultra-short pulses of terahertz ...
Wed 1 Feb 12 from PhysOrg
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Nanotube-based terahertz polarizer nears perfection
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Rice University are using carbon nanotubes as the critical component of a robust terahertz polarizer that could accelerate the development of new security and ...
Mon 30 Jan 12 from PhysOrg
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Repulsive gravity as an alternative to dark energy (Part 2: In the quantum vacuum)
(PhysOrg.com) -- During the past few years, CERN physicist Dragan Hajdukovic has been investigating what he thinks may be a widely overlooked part of the cosmos: the quantum vacuum. He suggests ...
Wed 1 Feb 12 from PhysOrg
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Nanotube growth theory experimentally confirmed
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Air Force Research Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, has experimentally confirmed a theory by Rice University Professor Boris Yakobson that foretold a pair of interesting properties ...
Mon 30 Jan 12 from PhysOrg
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New methods enable the early detection of Achilles tendon damage
Two biochemical methods, developed at the Centre of Excellence for High Field Magnetic Resonance at the MedUni Vienna by Vladimir Juras from the University Department of Radiodiagnostics, are ...
Tue 31 Jan 12 from Medical Xpress
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