Archive for the ‘nanomaterials’ Category
Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
The annual Nanotech conference (NSTI 2009) was held this past week in Houston, Texas. Some of the highlights include:
Bayer discussed their FDA approval of their multiwall carbon nanotubes called Baytubes(R) which they have reported to be producible at a 60 metric ton annual capacity. (link)
Angstron Materials and Vorbeck Materials presented their competing ...
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Sunday, February 22nd, 2009
Last year researchers at Hewlett-Packard published a paper in Nature noting a link between materials used for a new type of non-volatile memory called RRAM and the theory of the memristor- a theoretical circuit element originally predicted in 1971 by UC Berkeley professor Leon Chua. The HP researchers demonstrated an increase in ...
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Monday, December 15th, 2008
Last month a symposium was held at UC Berkeley on a new type of nanoscale circuit element called the memristor which could have a big impact in areas such as non-volatile memory and neuromorphic computing. Youtube has video of the conference available here and a six minute primer available here.
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Thursday, December 11th, 2008
An article in the current issue of Nanotechnology Law and Business (available free: here), spun-off from an April post here on nanoREV explores the patent challenges of graphene based inventions. While several companies are now jumping on the graphene bandwagon, especially for its promising uses in electronics, each is hoping to be the ...
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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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