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Technology Research News January 29, 2003 Kimberly Patch |
Tiny hole guides atoms against tide Researchers in Poland have made a synthetic device that uses an electrical field and an extremely small, conical pore in a thin film of material to coax potassium ions through the artificial membrane against their electrochemical potential.  |
Industrial Physicist Aug/Sep 2003 Eric J. Lerner |
Briefs A magnetic microscope for the brain... Spin and energy -- free?... Finest nanowire arrays... Solar-cell burnout... etc.  |
Technology Research News August 10, 2005 Eric Smalley |
Ice transforms chipmaking Spraying water vapor onto cold silicon could be a simple way to make computer chips. The key is etching nanoscale lines into the resulting ice to make microscopic computer circuits. The process is environmentally friendly to boot.  |
IEEE Spectrum February 2005 Singh & Thakur |
Chip Making's Singular Future Beleaguered chip makers are counting on single-wafer manufacturing, which makes ICs on one wafer at a time, to cut costs and get chips to market faster.  |
IEEE Spectrum March 2013 Joachim N. Burghartz |
Make Way for Flexible Silicon Chips We need them because thin, pliable organic semiconductors are too slow to serve in tomorrow's chips. Seamless integration of computing into everyday objects isn't quite here yet.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2010 Chris Sanders |
3D IC Integration is Poised to Drive the Next Generation of Military Imaging Sensors As military and aerospace design engineers develop imaging systems for the wired battlefield of tomorrow, they face the challenge of providing high-resolution imaging arrays that are light, small, and cheap.  |
Industrial Physicist Rubin & Poate |
Ion implantation in silicon technology Ion implanters are essential to modern integrated-circuit (IC) manufacturing. Doping or otherwise modifying silicon and other semiconductor wafers relies on the technology.  |
Chemistry World September 21, 2010 Hayley Birch |
Self-pumping membrane mimics cell machinery US researchers have imitated the transport functions of biological membranes by incorporating tiny pumps into synthetic membranes. They say their 'self-pumping' mimics could be used in compartment-less fuel cells.  |
Industrial Physicist Feb/Mar 2004 Eric J. Lerner |
Briefs Opening the x-ray water window... Zero thermal expansion... Magnetoresistor computing... A pressure-driven battery  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2006 Gurnett & Adams |
Copper-post technology shows promise for cooling in military applications The change from solder bumps to copper posts has far-reaching implications for advanced electronics in military and aerospace applications.  |
IEEE Spectrum October 2012 Sylvain Martel |
Magnetic Microbots to Fight Cancer Magnets steer medical microbots through blood vessels  |
Chemistry World February 14, 2007 Lionel Milgrom |
Slim-Line Silicon Speeds up Protein Separation Tough, ultra-slim silicon membranes could drastically improve the performance of lab-on-a-chip micro-analytical systems, kidney dialysis machines and, in the future, even produce an artificial kidney, claim researchers.  |
IEEE Spectrum August 2007 Stick et al. |
The Trap Technique In this first part of a two-part series, the authors discuss how today's computers are running out of room for classical physics to work and how working with the quantum nature of things instead of against it will open up vast new frontiers for computing.  |
IEEE Spectrum October 2005 Salvatore Coffa |
Light From Silicon For decades, silicon was a semiconducting dim bulb, but now we can make it into LEDs that match the best made from more exotic materials  |
Technology Research News January 15, 2003 Kimberly Patch |
Plastic process produces puny pores The size of the microscopic pores in a material determines how the material scatters the sun's rays and how much light will shine through. Making microscopic pores precisely the right size, however, is tricky.  |
IEEE Spectrum August 2006 Schoenbach et al. |
Zap Extreme voltage could be a surprisingly delicate tool in the fight against cancer. The list of effects that scientists have achieved using nanoseconds-long pulses is growing rapidly, though their actual use as a medical treatment is still years away.  |
Popular Mechanics March 2003 Paul Eisenstein |
World's Most Powerful Magnet The "magnetar," or magnetic neutron star known as Soft Gamma Repeater 1806-20, is the most powerful known magnetic object in the universe. While it's unlikely anything man-made will ever come close to the power of a magnetar, it's not for lack of trying.  |
IEEE Spectrum January 2012 Rachel Courtland |
3-D Chips Grow Up In 2012, 3-D chips will help extend Moore's Law - and move beyond it.  |
Geotimes June 2006 Stephen L. Gillett |
A Nanotechnology Revolution for the Geosciences Wastewater streams, acid-mine drainage, seawater, concentrated natural brines such as those in oilfields or saline lakes -- sometimes viewed now as problems -- all could become potential sources of materials with the help of nanotechnology.  |
Chemistry World August 30, 2006 Tom Westgate |
Lasers Shed Light on Magnetic Resonance A new way of measuring nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) in liquid samples could have implications across spectroscopy and imaging, report researchers.  |
Chemistry World May 19, 2006 Jon Evans |
CNTs Provide Pores for Thought Membranes containing pores made of carbon nanotubes could improve the efficiency of processes such as desalination and removing CO 2 from industrial emissions.  |
IEEE Spectrum March 2006 J. R. Minkel |
Quantum Leap For Quantum Computing The most promising technology for constructing an ultrapowerful quantum computer is the ion trap, a nest of electrodes that holds ions in midair. Researchers have now built the first such ion-trap chips.  |
IEEE Spectrum March 2007 Mouli & Carriker |
Future Fab If a billion transistors on a postage-stamp-size chip impress you, consider the fabrication facilities that put them there. How software is helping Intel go nano -- and beyond.  |
Chemistry World April 13, 2011 Fay Nolan-Neylan |
Nanofiltration for better energy storage Scientists in China have found that nanofiltration membranes could enhance the efficiency of vanadium redox flow batteries making them a more viable tool for large-scale energy storage.  |
Chemistry World October 26, 2011 Kate McAlpine |
Dismissing gatekeepers for enhanced nerve control US researchers have invented a better way to stimulate or block nerve impulses by coating an electrode with a membrane that can control the local concentration of ions.  |
IEEE Spectrum December 2010 Joseph Calamia |
Can Carbon Put Copper Down for the Count? In the nano realm, copper vertical interconnects won't cut it  |
Chemistry World May 30, 2006 Michael Gross |
A Physiological Role for Healthy Prions Researchers have shown that the healthy version of the scrapie pathogen helps maintain the optimum concentration of copper ions in the cell.  |
Chemistry World April 30, 2009 Nina Notman |
Long live lipid membranes Scientists in the US have massively extended the lifetime of lipid membranes, with potential implications for the pharmaceutical industry  |
Chemistry World October 11, 2007 Jonathan Edwards |
'Tuneable' Polymer Can Separate Anything An international team of scientists have made a polymer with pores which can be fine-tuned to speedily separate different small molecules -- with applications ranging from carbon capture to fuel cells.  |
Chemistry World October 31, 2010 Michael Gross |
Kiss of death for cancer cells Scientists have deciphered the surprising structure of the perforin pore, which delivers the 'kiss of death' to virus-infected cells and cancer cells in the body.  |
Scientific American September 19, 2005 Steven Ashley |
Silicon Sniffer Engineers have developed a button-size chemical sensor prototype that is designed, among other things, to detect trace amounts of explosives before they detonate.  |
Chemistry World June 27, 2010 Simon Hadlington |
Nanoparticles allow remote control of cells In an experiment reminiscent of the mind-control rays that featured prominently in B-movies from the 1950s, scientists in the US have used a magnetic field to alter the behavior of an animal.  |
Chemistry World February 11, 2011 David Barden |
Waking up to new possibilities in imaging UK researchers have used a cage-like molecule to smuggle metal ions into cells, which could improve medical imaging.  |
Chemistry World April 7, 2011 |
Molecular Fridge Can Reach Millikelvin Scientists have laid the foundations for a high-performance 'molecular fridge' capable of reaching temperatures within a few thousandths of a degree of absolute zero with a high degree of efficiency.  |
Technology Research News March 26, 2003 |
On-chip battery debuts Researchers from Hosei University in Japan have taken a big step toward giving nano devices and biochips onboard power supplies.  |
IEEE Spectrum March 2011 Joseph Calamia |
Engineers Unveil Particle Accelerator on a Chip Zipping ions down a MEMS racetrack could lead to portable particle beams  |
Chemistry World October 3, 2006 Michael Gross |
Imaging for the Masses Two US research groups have made progress in the application of mass spectrometry for imaging.  |
Chemistry World April 4, 2013 Phillip Broadwith |
A solution to fluoronium riddle The first evidence for hypervalent fluorine cations, or fluoronium ions, in solution has been found by US chemists.  |
Technology Research News November 5, 2003 Kimberly Patch |
Micro waterflows make power Apply electricity to a microscopic tube of water and the water flows. Turn the equation around and force water through the tube instead, and electricity flows. Put enough of the tiny tubes together -- several million or so -- and you get useful amounts of power, and a new, clean source of energy.  |
Chemistry World June 25, 2013 Phillip Broadwith |
Porous materials break out of covalent cage Porous materials made from small molecular cages, rather than rigidly bonded frameworks, could be easier to process and have more tunable performance, say UK researchers.  |
Chemistry World May 14, 2014 Tim Wogan |
Fingertip sweat pore maps to catch criminals The technique uses a water-sensitive polymer to detect the unique pattern of sweat pores on fingertips and may one day help the police to identify fingerprints left on surfaces that are impossible to scrutinize with current techniques.  |
Chemistry World June 1, 2010 Simon Hadlington |
Structural order gained over conducting polymer Scientists in Canada and the US have shown how it is possible to assemble ordered arrays of short chains of a commercially important conducting polymer on a metal surface.  |
Chemistry World February 2007 Philip Ball |
The Crucible Molecular biology isn't just about the cleverness of proteins and nucleic acids. Even the molecules often assumed to be just part of the scaffolding, such as lipids, and the very water that bathes them all, may have inventive roles to play.  |
Chemistry World January 5, 2012 Helen Bache |
Cleaning Cadmium From Blood With the development of modern industries, heavy metal pollution in humans is on the rise, say researchers in China, who have now designed a supermagnetic nanocomposite to effectively remove one of the pollutants - cadmium ions - from blood.  |