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Technology Research News April 23, 2003 |
Nanotube web could mimic brain Researchers from NASA Ames Research Center have found a way to grow minuscule webs of connected carbon nanotubes. These networks could herald a new type of electronics that have huge numbers of random connections, a setup similar to a brain's synapses.  |
CIO January 1, 2003 Julie Hanson |
The Next Little Thing Perhaps the Next Big Thing on the horizon, nanotechnology is the science of manipulating materials on an atomic or molecular scale.  |
Technology Research News August 13, 2003 |
Carbon wires expand nano toolkit Scientists looking for building blocks to form electronics and machines that are not much bigger than molecules have gained a new tool.  |
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.  |
Technology Research News April 21, 2004 |
Nanotube Forms Drive Shaft A researcher from the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering in Singapore has fashioned a drive shaft that is 1,000 times narrower than a human hair. The component could someday be used in machines that are smaller than bacteria.  |
Technology Research News May 19, 2004 |
Nanotube Sparks Could Cool Chips Researchers from Purdue University and have found a way to use carbon nanotubes to ionize air and generate minuscule air currents that can be used to cool computer chips.  |
Popular Mechanics November 20, 2009 Erin McCarthy |
Dwayne Johnson Promotes Space Exploration for NASA (Video!) NASA felt he was the perfect person to spearhead the agency's new series of public service announcements.  |
Science News September 11, 2004 |
Exploring Mars At its Marsoweb site, NASA provides detailed maps, engineering data, and interactive tools for studying the Red Planet's alien terrain.  |
Technology Research News May 7, 2003 |
Nanotube shines telecom light Researchers are continually working to expand the usefulness of carbon nanotubes. Scientists from IBM Research have found a way to make the tubes emit light, and have fashioned a nanotube transistor that emits 1.5-micron infrared light, a wavelength widely used in telecommunications.  |
Technology Research News December 1, 2004 |
Short Nanotubes Carry Big Currents Researchers have developed a simple way to fabricate carbon nanotube devices whose length is as small as ten nanometers, and have shown that electricity can pass through the nanotubes very efficiently.  |
InternetNews September 29, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Google is NASA Bound The search giant and the U.S. space agency will work together to combine biotech, infotech, and nanotechnology for better data management.  |
The Motley Fool May 2, 2005 Jack Uldrich |
Intel's "Intel Around Us" Strategy Intel's push into the realm of all things nano stretches beyond "Intel Inside" and broadens the company's long-term potential. Investors, take note.  |
Technology Research News April 21, 2004 |
Magnets Align Nanotubes in Resin Carbon nanotubes have great potential as components of new materials but aligning the tiny tubes can be tricky. Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Florida State University have developed a way to orient the nanotubes in a polymer mix using a magnetic field.  |
Technology Research News January 28, 2004 |
Nanotubes tied to silicon circuit Connecting minuscule nanotube transistors to traditional silicon transistors enables the atomic-scale electronics to communicate with existing electronic equipment.  |
Technology Research News August 27, 2003 |
Nanotubes spark gas detector Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found a way to use carbon nanotubes to make very small, sensitive gas detectors.  |
Chemistry World December 7, 2009 Simon Hadlington |
Metal atoms in carbon nanotubes caught on film An international team of researchers has filmed individual metal atoms as they move around and react within the confines of a carbon nanotube.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2006 John McHale |
Purdue Researchers Look at Nanotechnology to Reduce Computer-Chip Heating University researchers are looking to mitigate electronic systems heating problems through the use of carbon nanotubes. They have created carpets of microscopic nanotubes to enhance the performance of heat sinks to help keep future chips from overheating.  |
Technology Research News February 11, 2004 |
DNA sorts nanotubes Researchers have come up with a way to use DNA to separate carbon nanotubes by electrical type -- metallic or semi conducting -- and by diameter. A carbon nanotubes's electrical properties and diameter are related.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2008 Courtney E. Howard |
NASA, Intel, and SGI upgrade supercomputer, expand compute capabilities Experts at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Washington, Intel Corp. in Santa Clara, Calif., and SGI in Sunnyvale, Calif., are working toward significant increases in the computing performance and capacity of the space agency's supercomputer.  |
Technology Research News March 9, 2005 |
Method Makes Double Nanotubes Researchers can now fabricate pure batches of double-walled carbon nanotubes, which theoretically should be more thermally and chemically stable than single walled nanotubes.  |
InternetNews January 16, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas |
Big Memory, Itty-Bitty Chips Intel's experiments with nanotechnology grow, as it collaborates with Nanosys on future chips.  |
The Motley Fool July 3, 2006 Jack Uldrich |
Nanotech's Superman-Like Qualities From NASA's exploration of carbon nanotubes to create the cables for a space elevator to the potential of nanotech to grow computer chips in a beaker and, quite possibly, cure a variety of cancers, investors need to stay apace of developments in nanotechnology.  |
Technology Research News April 9, 2003 |
Twisted nanotubes have spring Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have found a way to use carbon nanotubes -- rolled-up sheets of carbon atoms that form naturally in soot -- as tiny springs for microscopic devices.  |
Technology Research News July 14, 2004 |
Laser tweezer traps nanotubes The researchers have showed that it is possible to pattern clusters of nanotubes into configurations that are likely to have near-term applications as chemical, biological and physical sensors.  |
The Motley Fool November 13, 2006 Jack Uldrich |
Intel Goes Ballistic The microchip company's work with carbon nanotubes could keep Moore's Law going.  |
Wired December 20, 2007 Erin Biba |
Set to Roll in 2009: The All-New Bigger, Badder-Ass Mars Rover The Mars Science Laboratory is nuclear powered and packed with gadgets never before seen on the Red Planet.  |
The Motley Fool November 29, 2005 Jack Uldrich |
IBM: A Very Small Bright Light Big Blue's latest announcement could lead to a myriad of uses in computers, telecommunications, and lighting. Investors, take note.  |
Technology Research News June 18, 2003 |
Nanotube transistors make memory Researchers from the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology in Korea and the Chonbuk National University in Korea have laid the groundwork for making nonvolatile computer memory out of carbon nanotubes.  |
Technology Research News May 21, 2003 |
Nanotubes smash length record Duke University researchers produced nanotubes as long as two millimeters, which is 100 times longer than previous efforts. Nanotubes have great potential as components of nanomachines and nanoelectronics.  |
InternetNews July 28, 2004 Clint Boulton |
SGI Aims High with NASA Deal SGI's Space Exploration Simulator supercomputer is one of the largest Linux systems ever assembled, with 10,240 Intel Itanium processors.  |
BusinessWeek April 18, 2005 Adam Aston |
The Coming Chip Revolution Facing the limits of silicon, scientists are turning to carbon nanotubes. But even with a reliable supply of tubes, scaling up production to supply a vast global industry will take years.  |
Technology Research News June 2, 2004 |
Buckyballs Gain Smaller Kin Researchers from Xiamen University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have constructed a smaller version of the buckyball or C60 fullerene molecule, a spherical cage of carbon atoms.  |
Technology Research News December 29, 2004 |
Coated Nanotubes Make Biosensors Researchers are using carbon nanotubes to sense single molecules, and are tapping the way carbon nanotubes give off near-infrared light in order to read what the sensors have detected.  |
Technology Research News December 1, 2004 Eric Smalley |
For Pure Nanotubes Add Water Washing away impurities with water turns out to be as good for growing carbon nanotubes as it is for keeping a clean house.  |
Chemistry World December 2, 2010 Laura Howes |
Nanotube material retains bounce at extreme Carbon nanotubes can make a rubber like material that remains usable in a temperature range of over one thousand degrees.  |
Technology Research News October 8, 2003 |
Nanotubes boost storage Scientists from IBM Research in Zurich, Osaka Prefecture University in Japan, and the Japanese Nanotechnology Research Institute have advanced the possibilities of using multiwalled carbon nanotubes to make denser, more efficient data storage devices.  |
Technology Research News August 25, 2004 |
Nanotubes Make Fluid Filter Researchers have devised a simple and inexpensive way to manufacture very fine filters from carbon nanotubes. These filters could be used to separate heavy hydrocarbons from petroleum and bacteria and viruses from water.  |
Geotimes March 2004 |
NASA says Mars once drenched in water Scientists from NASA's Mars explorer projects announced today that they had found definitive evidence for "a lot of water" at some point in the planet's history.  |
Technology Research News May 5, 2004 |
Nano Test Tubes Fabricated Researchers have found a way to make minuscule test tubes from carbon and silica nanotubes.  |
Technology Research News December 15, 2004 |
Aligned Nanotubes Accommodate Bone Researchers have found that artificial joints can be improved by mimicking the alignment of collagen fibers and natural ceramic crystals in real bones using today's nanotechnology techniques.  |
PC Magazine August 30, 2006 John C. Dvorak |
Inside Track v25n16 There needs to be something besides high-end games that can suck up all the power of Intel's dual-core chips. This desperation will only get worse when Intel rolls out the four-core chip.  |
Technology Research News September 8, 2004 |
Nanotube Transistor Has Power Aiming to make electrical componets faster, researchers are working to make components from carbon nanotubes, which are rolled-up sheets of carbon atoms that can be smaller than a nanometer in diameter.  |
Technology Research News December 29, 2004 |
Sapphire Steps Shape Nanotubes Arrays Researchers have found that it is possible to grow carbon nanotubes along atom-size steps on a sapphire surface.  |
Technology Research News June 2, 2004 |
Nanotubes Move Molten Metal Researchers from the University of California at Berkeley have found a way to move globules of molten metal that are as small as 30 nanometers in diameter. A nanometer is one millionth of a millimeter, or the span of 10 hydrogen atoms.  |
Technology Research News July 30, 2003 Eric Smalley |
Chip senses trace DNA Handheld detectors could one day allow you to monitor your body for cancer, your water for chemicals, and your food for bacteria. This requires inexpensive electronics that are capable of detecting trace amounts of substances. One candidate is a chip containing DNA-tipped carbon nanotubes.  |
Technology Research News December 3, 2003 Kimberly Patch |
DNA assembles nanotube transistor Scientists have caused a transistor to self-assemble from a test tube concoction of DNA, proteins, antibodies, carbon nanotubes and minuscule specks of silver and gold. The feat shows that it is possible to assemble the smallest of machines and electronic devices by harnessing DNA's properties.  |
Chemistry World July 28, 2006 Katharine Sanderson |
Nanotubes with Added Nitrogen Are Less Toxic Adding a dash of nitrogen to carbon nanotubes can make them substantially less toxic, according to researchers.  |
Technology Research News October 8, 2003 |
Nanotubes harvest electrons Researchers from the University of Bologna and the University of Trieste in Italy, and the University of Notre Dame have found a way to alter carbon nanotubes so that they efficiently separate electrical charge. The method could lead to more efficient solar cells.  |
The Motley Fool February 24, 2004 Wherrett & Yelovich |
Profiting From Nanotechnology Can you profit from this technology? An overview of what the science is and where opportunity may lie for investors.  |
Popular Mechanics January 2009 Michael Milstein |
Vertical Gun Range Engineer This NASA engineer can test the structure of space shuttle by simulating impact from space debris.  |