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Technology Research News January 28, 2004 |
Inkjet goes 3D Just as color printers are becoming status quo, a new technology may enable something more -- three-dimensional desktop printers.  |
Technology Research News October 22, 2003 |
Process prints nanoparticles Researchers have coaxed tiny particles of gold, silver and carbon to assemble into patterns on silicon wafers over areas as large as a square centimeter by using electrical charge patterns to attract and position the nanoparticles.  |
Technology Research News September 24, 2003 |
Rapid Process Shapes Aluminum Rapid prototyping processes are routinely used for plastics and some metals, but aluminum has proved elusive. Researchers in Australia have come up with a rapid manufacturing process for aluminum that infiltrates an aluminum alloy powder with a liquid aluminum alloy.  |
Technology Research News July 13, 2005 |
Self-Assembly Goes Around Bends Researchers have found a way a way to make polymer chains automatically assemble in non-regular patterns, including sharp angles. The method could eventually be used to build precise features as small as ten nanometers.  |
Technology Research News February 25, 2004 |
Nanotube mix makes liquid crystal Carbon nanotubes are rolled-up sheets of carbon atoms that can be as narrow as 0.4 nanometers, or the span of four hydrogen atoms. They have useful electrical and mechanical properties and are a leading player in nanotechnology.  |
Chemistry World June 16, 2008 Richard Van Noorden |
Microfluidic artistry hits the rails South Korean researchers have developed a way to efficiently assemble microstructures from plastic parts - by sculpting them to fit to rails which then guide the parts along fluid-filled channels.  |
Technology Research News July 2, 2003 |
Tiny walls sprout nanowires Researchers from San Jose State University have found a way to coax tiny, three-dimensional structures to form on graphite, which conducts electrical current, and sapphire, which blocks electricity.  |
Technology Research News April 9, 2003 |
Liquid crystals go 3D Researchers from Sheffield University in England and the University of Pennsylvania have unlocked some of the secrets of liquid crystals, materials that self-assemble into lattices of geometric shapes that are neither solid nor liquid, but somewhere between.  |
Technology Research News March 23, 2005 |
Microdroplet makes mighty microscope Researchers from the University of Maryland have found a way to reach nanometer-scale resolution using something called far-field optics.  |
Technology Research News July 16, 2003 Kimberly Patch |
Electricity shapes nano plastic Plastic is a popular material for electronics these days because it's light and flexible. But today's chipmaking processes tend toward hard crystals, not soft polymers. A method that yields microscopic plastic structures could help, and it's based on a readily-available resource -- electricity.  |
Chemistry World March 26, 2007 Victoria Gill |
World's Smallest Bowl of 'Alphabet Soup' A fluorescent alphabet soup cooked up by US researchers has demonstrated the ability of a new technique to mass-produce complex shapes on the micro and even nanoscale.  |
Technology Research News September 24, 2003 |
Teamed lasers make smaller spots Researchers from Boston University have tapped the properties of polarization in order to focus a laser beam more tightly in space. The method could be used to scan objects in finer detail and to make finer features in processes like rapid prototyping and photolithography.  |
IndustryWeek January 20, 2010 Peter Alpern |
Beam Me Up a Part, Scotty As rapid prototyping matures as a technology, it's branched into new industries and is being used for more than producing prototypes.  |
Technology Research News September 22, 2004 |
Microscope Etches Ultrathin Lines Researchers have shown that it is possible to match electron beam resolution for organic materials using an ultraviolet laser shown through a near-field optical microscope.  |
Technology Research News January 14, 2004 Kimberly Patch |
Pressure shapes plastic If you want to turn a plastic into a liquid you usually have to apply heat. A material with a nanoscale mix of hard and soft plastics, however, can be made to flow at room temperature, given high-pressure. The result could be cheaper and greener recycling.  |
Chemistry World March 8, 2012 David Bradley |
Light-sensitive shape-shifters are swell gels Polymer chemists have successfully emulated the natural shape-shifting abilities of biological tissues, which could allow them to develop a new range of functional materials that change shape reversibly in response to particular stimuli.  |
Technology Research News February 9, 2005 |
Lens design promises tight spots A new photonic crystal lens can focus near-field light to a spot one-quarter of the light's wavelength. The device can be used to make smaller, faster computer chips and memory. It could also be used in super-resolution microscopes.  |
Technology Research News February 25, 2004 |
Nanotubes boost shape recovery Researchers have mixed carbon nanotubes with polymer to make a plastic that is good at springing back into shape when heated. The shape memory polymers could be used in practical applications in five years, according to the researchers.  |
The Motley Fool May 2, 2007 Jack Uldrich |
HP Makes a Small Impression The licensing of another company's nanotech research could hold some good financial rewards for investors.  |
Technology Research News February 9, 2005 |
Nanotubes on plastic speed circuits Many researchers are working to make plastic electronics that are as fast as today's silicon electronic components -- with the promise to enable flexible, inexpensive and very-large area computer screens. One group of researchers has taken a significant step closer to this goal.  |
Chemistry World November 9, 2009 Lewis Brindley |
Microscopic springs made from nanotube composite Researchers in the US have developed a way to rapidly make tiny 3D objects out of a carbon nanotube-enriched polymer, using UV light to quickly set the structure in place.  |
Technology Research News April 23, 2003 Eric Smalley |
Silver bits channel nano light Researchers from the California Institute of Technology and the University of Southern California have found a way to guide near-field light over short distances through channels that are several times narrower than the wavelengths of light.  |
IEEE Spectrum September 2008 Monica Heger |
At Long Last, Plastic Electronics Goes Commercial Plastic Logic begins production today, racing with Polymer Vision to get flexible e-readers into consumers' hands  |
Technology Research News July 28, 2004 |
Process prints silicon on plastic The components could be used in flexible large-area displays, radiofrequency ID tags, sensors, and flexible applications like reconfigurable antennas.  |
Technology Research News April 20, 2005 |
Ultraviolet Shifts Plastic's Shape Researchers have concocted a polymer material that can be switched from one shape to another in the presence of the right wavelengths of ultraviolet light.  |
Technology Research News February 23, 2005 |
Plastic changes color in heat Researchers have engineered a plastic that loses its color when heated. It could eventually be used to produce relatively inexpensive temperature-based paint.  |
PC Magazine April 5, 2006 Sebastian Rupley |
Flexed Researchers have come up with a new polymer material that could usher bendable displays into widespread use.  |
PC Magazine December 13, 2010 Jamie Lendino |
Scientists Develop Self-Healing Plastics Resarchers have now figured out a way to build plastic material that heals itself.  |
Technology Research News July 30, 2003 |
Nano light stores data in polymer Researchers from the University of Pisa in Italy have shown that it is possible to write lots of information in very little space using a thin film of polymer and polarized blue light.  |
Chemistry World June 12, 2008 Michael Gross |
Light Drives Plastic Motor Chemists in Japan have built a rotary motor driven purely by light shining onto a polymer film.  |
Technology Research News December 17, 2003 Eric Smalley |
Microfluidics make flat screens A new method for making big, cheap flat screen displays is a bit like making muffins. Pour liquid polymer into microfluidic channels aligned above an array of electrodes, let cure, and you have organic thin film transistors.  |
IEEE Spectrum February 2009 Mark Anderson |
Inside the Plastic Electronics Revolution IEEE Spectrum tours Plastic Logic's new fab in Dresden, Germany, where it will make its Kindle-killing e-reader  |
Technology Research News May 18, 2005 |
Thin Silver Sheet Makes Superlens Researchers have fashioned a superlens from a thin sheet of silver that resolves images as small as 60 nanometers using 365-nanometer light.  |
Chemistry World January 8, 2016 Simon Hadlington |
New shape memory polymer with a permanent twist The new kind of polymer's permanent shape can be changed multiple times, with the features from the previous shape remaining locked into the structure.  |
The Motley Fool August 28, 2007 Jack Uldrich |
A New Take on Printing 3-D printing is poised to grow rapidly in the next few years. Investors, take note.  |
Technology Research News April 9, 2003 Kimberly Patch |
Painted LEDs make screen Spread it on a surface, shine tiny spots of ultraviolet light on it, and voila, a certain type of plastic turns into a full-color, high-resolution, flexible flat-screen display. The simple process could make computer screens much cheaper.  |
IEEE Spectrum May 2006 Samuel K. Moore |
Poky Plastic Perks Up Materials scientists have invented the first polymer semiconductor to perform almost as well as the type of silicon used to drive flat-panel displays.  |
IEEE Spectrum January 2006 Bernard L. Rue |
It's Time for a Nanoelectronics Quality Standard The electronics industry will see the first nanoelectronics-based products within the next two years and is expected to see an explosion of applications within ten years. It is imperative that a high degree of standardization be developed in the measurement of product compliance and functionality.  |
Technology Research News July 13, 2005 |
Invisible Ink is Rewritable Researchers have fabricated a rewritable security paper whose contents are only visible under ultraviolet light.  |