Archive for the ‘Research’ Category
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Since 1999, MIT's very own publication -- Technology Review -- has highlighted a list of top innovators under the age of 35 aptly named TR35. While the list may be biased, containing only works that the editors find "exciting", the just released "TR35" for 2008 includes a familiar name--Dr. Kostya ...
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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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Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Patterning the insulating layers on silicon wafers via photolithography is becoming increasingly difficult at the nano length scale. The conventional process, consisting of several masking, depositing and etching steps to form trenches and conductive pathways is prone to errors due to the fine details of the patterns not translating ...
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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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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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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
I wonder if there's a giant chart somewhere that shows how all the nanotechnology funding gets funneled from our taxes to the hands of the people doing the research. If so, I'd like to see it. The alternative may be for us here at nanoREV to dig up the ...
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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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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
A recent publication by Professor Hongjie Dai's research team of Stanford's department of Chemistry shows promise for the use of carbon nanotubes in biomedical applications. In their study, Dai's group reports that after injecting mice with single-walled carbon nanotubes, "near-complete clearance [of the nanotubes] from the main organs in ...
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