Archive for the ‘nanomaterials’ Category
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
Anyone familiar with the novel Atlas Shrugged will recognize some similarities between the events of the novel and the current economic predicament. In the novel the devaluation of the ideas of innovators in comparison to the needs of the masses eventually leads to economic decline followed by government bailouts followed ...
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
The memristor was listed by TIME magazine as one of the top inventions of 2008 and could revolutionize non-volatile memory by replacing transistor based memory cells with a new type of nanoscale resistance switch. In addition, there has been some speculation that the memristor may be a key ingredient to a ...
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Sunday, October 26th, 2008
Advancements in both neuroscience and microelectronics over the past decades has brought about new ways for computer interfacing with the human brain. Neuroscience has brought about enhanced understanding of the working of the brain via electroencephalography and has applied such understanding to neuroprothetics offering various ways of repairing damage caused by stroke or trauma. Meanwhile, microelectronics continues ...
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Sunday, July 27th, 2008
In a recent article posted as an Advance Online Publication of Nature Nanotechnology, researchers from Rutgers provide even more support of graphene's promise in future nano devices. The researchers compared electronic properties of suspended graphene (SG) --that is, graphene held between two electrodes and not physically in contact with a ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
Last week several news sources including the New York Times and CBS News, as well as various popular science journals including Scientific American and EETimes, reported on the May 1 publication in Nature by Hewlett Packard scientists describing the discovery of the "memristor", a fourth fundamental circuit element after the ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Typically passive electronic components are divided into three categories - resistors, capacitors, and inductors. According to this recent article in EETimes, a fourth passive component referred to as a "Memristor" was discovered by Stanley Williams group at Hewlett Packard. The material for this new component is taught to be based ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
The Department of Energy's Industrial Technologies Program will award $10 million in research funds for its “Nanomanufacturing for Energy Efficiency 2008″ initiative. The selected projects will receive funds over a three year period. Awards will range from approximately $150,000 to $2,000,000.
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
While much of the original research and development of carbon nanotube technology originated from the U.S. at IBM and Rice University and in Japan at NEC, China has recently become an important player in developing CNT manufacturing techniques and device applications. This article in the Nanotechnology Law & Business journal ...
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
Trouble is brewing and the carbon wars have begun. It's "sheets" versus "tubes", 2-D vs 3-D, graphene versus nanotubes. Man your battlestations, toss in your bets, and start your research!
Because of some recent news regarding graphene, in this post I will attempt to highlight some of the patentability ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
In addition to what was reported in an earlier post: "Nanotechnology is an exciting new field with the potential to transform environmental protection. But it is critical to know whether nanomaterials could negatively impact health or the environment," said George Gray, Assistant Administrator of EPA's Office of Research and ...
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