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Technology Research News September 22, 2004 |
Virus Forms Nano Template Living matter self-assembles into complex organisms that can contain billions of cells, and researchers have tapped biological molecules like DNA and viruses to self-assemble technologically useful structures and materials.  |
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 November 19, 2003 |
Model leverages nano tethers Researchers from the University of Michigan have shown in computer simulations that it is possible to cause structures like sheets, wires and tubes to spontaneously assemble by starting with nanoparticles that have long, tether-like molecules attached, then causing the tethers and nanoparticles to part.  |
Technology Research News August 10, 2005 |
Templates yield nano branches Making highly-branched nanoscale tubes and wires is a matter of easing off the juice by the right amount at the right time.  |
Technology Research News October 6, 2004 |
Design rules build on self-assembly Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed computer simulations that promise to speed the process of finding ways to build practical nanostructures, including precisely-structured materials, electronic and optical components, and chemical sensors.  |
Technology Research News January 12, 2005 |
Branchy Molecules Make Precise Pores Researchers have found a way to coax a material containing microscopic pores to assemble from two very different types of molecules. The material could be used as packaging material for microscopic electronics, to store gases, and to deliver tiny amounts of drugs to very specific places.  |
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 January 28, 2004 |
Protein orders semiconductor bits Researchers working to make structures at the size-scale of molecules are tapping self-assembly techniques found in nature. Researchers have found a way to construct fairly complicated nanostructures by combining a genetically engineered form of the protein cohesin with quantum dots.  |
IndustryWeek December 1, 2004 Tim Stevens |
Technologies Of The Year -- IBM Corp.'s Nanotechnology For Semiconductor Processing Polymer molecules that self-assemble will enable smaller, more powerful semiconductor devices for the future. The technology promises significantly reduced feature size, higher component density, improved performance and lower voltage requirements for microelectronic devices.  |
Chemistry World January 7, 2010 Simon Hadlington |
Giant nanowheel mystery solved Researchers have uncovered the mechanism behind how one of chemistry's most remarkable self-assembled structures, a giant molecular wheel made from molybdenum oxide, spontaneously manufactures itself.  |
Chemistry World September 17, 2008 Hayley Birch |
Colloids twist like DNA French scientists have used magnetic colloids to make self-assembling, helical structures reminiscent of DNA  |
Chemistry World March 24, 2010 Hayley Birch |
The key to colloid assembly US researchers have a developed a simple lock-and-key type mechanism that drives the self-assembly of colloid particles. They say their work offers a new approach for building tiny machines with movable parts.  |
Chemistry World June 27, 2013 Ian Randall |
Molecular transistor for cheaper, greener electronics Chinese and Danish scientists have placed a transistor made from a single molecular monolayer onto an electronic chip. The new chip harnesses graphene oxide as a transparent electrode so that light can be used to switch the transistor.  |
Chemistry World January 12, 2015 Emma Stoye |
DNA origami makes moving machines Carlos Castro's group at Ohio State University, US has engineered DNA 'machines' that can open and close like hinges, as well as perform more complicated movements in three dimensions  |
Chemistry World June 3, 2010 Manisha Lalloo |
Cracking yolk-shell nanoparticles Scientists in Australia have found a new way to synthesise 'yolk-shell' nanoparticles with tunable shell thickness and pore size. The particles could have applications as nanoreactors and in drug delivery.  |
Wired Erin Biba |
Molecular Frameworks, the Building Blocks of All Life The world is complicated, but not as complicated as you might think. Most organic molecules derive from a few relatively simple architectures.  |
Technology Research News December 17, 2003 |
Chemists grow nano menagerie Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories have found a simple way to make tiny, complicated shapes from zinc oxide, including arrays of vertically-aligned rods, flat disks, and columns that resemble stacks of coins.  |
Chemistry World July 31, 2008 |
Nanostructures Made Easy Scotland-based chemists have invented a new way to build nanoscale arrays of molecules over a large surface area: a technique that may be key to making nanostructures in sophisticated sensors, catalysts, and tiny computer parts.  |
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Biomimetic Nanotechnology Although biomimetic nanotechnology is in its infancy, with no applications yet reaching commercialization, the barriers in some cases lie mainly in scaling up production processes to industrial levels.  |
Technology Research News June 2, 2004 |
Process Nets Cheap Microstructures Researchers from Boston College have demonstrated that it's possible to use relatively inexpensive polymers to construct tiny structures using multiphoton-absorption photopolymerization.  |
Chemistry World January 25, 2012 Kate McAlpine |
Conjuring graphene oxide from thin air Researchers on the hunt for a better way to recycle carbon dioxide have turned it into graphene oxide.  |
Chemistry World September 29, 2014 David Bradley |
Pick and mix macromolecules New ways are discovered to piece together pi-functional molecular building blocks to make a wide range of macromolecules.  |
Technology Research News June 29, 2005 |
Self-assembly: the natural way to make things In biology, there are a few different ways DNA molecules can be replicated and combined.  |
Technology Research News April 7, 2004 |
Nano ribbons coil into rings Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have found a way to coax microscopic zinc oxide ribbons to spontaneously coil, slinky-like, into perfect rings.  |
Chemistry World November 30, 2007 Lewis Brindley |
Crystal Clear Structure Prediction One team of researchers has hit the jackpot by correctly predicting the crystal structures of four organic molecules in a competition organized by the University of Cambridge.  |
Bio-IT World November 19, 2004 Kevin Davies |
De-Lovely Pharmaceuticals De Novo Pharmaceuticals identifies novel compounds right before your eyes.  |
Chemistry World October 6, 2015 Colin Groom |
A story of structure For chemists, the Cambridge Structural Database is part of the furniture. It contains data for every small molecule crystal structure ever determined -- over 750,000 of them  |
Chemistry World December 10, 2013 David Bradley |
Breaking the mold with recycled plastic drugs James Hedrick of the IBM Almaden Research Center, US, and colleagues have used supramolecular chemistry to self-assemble a range of polymer-like structures that display antifungal properties.  |
IndustryWeek April 1, 2004 John Teresko |
3-D Chemistry Builds Complex Micro-Structures Try it for complex structures that would be difficult to build layer-by-layer with 2-D lithographic processes.  |
Chemistry World March 29, 2011 |
A Single Scale Tells More Than a Whole Wing Scientists in China have made zinc oxide replicas of single scales from butterfly wings to understand and exploit their optical properties for sensor and solar cell applications.  |
Scientific American August 2006 Mihail C. Roco |
Nanotechnology's Future Over the next two decades, this new field for controlling the properties of matter will rise to prominence through four evolutionary stages.  |
Reactive Reports Issue 30 David Bradley |
Build 'em small The shells of microscopic ocean creatures could be the inspiration for a new approach to building components for a wide range of technologies from the lab-on-a-chip to miniature medical devices.  |
CRM April 2015 Denis Pombriant |
The Power of the Platform Is in the Integration Software puts a wide-angle lens on the business process.  |
Chemistry World July 29, 2014 Derek Lowe |
The crystal ball that can tell lies X-ray crystallography has long had a sort of halo around it as the 'ground truth' of molecular structure, so many chemists are surprised to learn how rife with error it can be.  |
Chemistry World June 12, 2013 Kirsty Muirhead |
An end to chasing molecules that were never there? Ariel Sarotti from the Rosario National University, Argentina, has developed a new, computationally inexpensive method combining calculated and experimental 13C NMR data to flag up incorrect structures.  |
Chemistry World March 10, 2009 Alexander Hellemans |
Making pentagonal ice An international group of researchers have discovered that pentagonal structures of ice can be formed on copper surfaces consisting of Cu (110) substrates.  |
Chemistry World September 6, 2010 Phillip Broadwith |
Are you sure that structure is right? UK chemists have developed a computer program that can work out how likely a chemical structure is to be correct, or identify the right structure from a range of possibilities.  |