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Chemistry World October 16, 2007 Jonathan Edwards |
3D Nanoprinter Makes Oxide Sculptures Researchers have made inks that can print tiny three-dimensional patterns using metal oxides. The inks could allow fast, easy printing of micro-fuel cells, sensors and photonic crystals, the scientists say.  |
IEEE Spectrum November 2008 Chris A. Mack |
Seeing Double Someday, chips might be made with X-rays. Until then, double-patterning lithography will be the only game in town.  |
Chemistry World September 20, 2012 Hayley Birch |
Lift off for nanoscale printing A new printing technique developed by US scientists allows them to transfer a pattern with nanoscale features from a stamp onto a surface, achieving surprisingly sharp results. The technique could help bring down the cost of high resolution lithography.  |
Chemistry World November 26, 2010 Rebecca Brodie |
Printing on bioactive paper An enzyme printing process that prints the product of an enzyme-catalysed reaction, but not the enzyme molecule itself, has been designed by scientists in Australia to produce bioactive paper.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2005 Hubert Kostal |
Nano-optics: robust, optical devices for demanding applications In harsh environments, conventional optics and optical engineering have significant physical limitations. But, through nanometer-scale structuring of various materials, "Nano-optics" creates a new class of optical devices with desirable optical effects.  |
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 May 18, 2009 James Urquhart |
Tailored colors for photonic crystals Korean and US scientists have permanently fixed the color of block copolymer photonic crystals by swelling photonic gels and 'freezing' them as they display the desired color.  |
Chemistry World November 17, 2014 James Urquhart |
Beetle behind breath test for bank notes Simply breathing on money could soon reveal if it's the real deal or counterfeit thanks to a beetle-inspired ink that reversibly changes color in response to humidity.  |
Chemistry World May 23, 2014 Jennifer Newton |
A good hair day for glowing nanoparticles Hair contains just the right balance of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen for making fluorescent nanoparticles.  |
Chemistry World November 1, 2006 Richard Van Noorden |
Insects Make Nanotech Impression Chinese researchers have reported a cheap and effective way to print nanoscale structures onto surfaces: they use stamps created from the delicately patterned wings of cicadas.  |
Technology Research News June 1, 2005 Eric Smalley |
Movie Captures Trapped Light Slow light, once better understood, could be used to improve devices like sensors and optical communications equipment. Researchers have moved the field forward with a way to directly observe the phenomenon.  |
Chemistry World December 19, 2012 |
Overcoming small obstacles What if photolithography hits a barrier it cannot breach? That question has motivated scientists to recruit chemistry to a series of printing methods with the power to engineer nanometre-scale materials.  |
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.  |
Chemistry World July 13, 2007 Tom Westgate |
Colourful Colloids A simple mixture of iron oxide, a polymer and water can take on any color simply by applying a magnetic field.  |
Chemistry World December 17, 2007 Jonathan Edwards |
A Simpler Way to Photonic Crystals Chinese scientists have found an easy way to make highly regular crystal structures from a polymer mixture.  |
Reactive Reports Issue 67 David Bradley |
Attractive Changing Colors Chemists have discovered that a simple magnet can be used to change the color of nanoparticles of iron oxide in aqueous suspension.  |
Technology Research News July 28, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Photonic chips go 3D Computer chips made from photonic crystal promise better communications equipment and ultrafast, all-optical computers  |
IEEE Spectrum December 2007 Neil Savage |
Slower Light for Faster Telecom Networks Promising research could yield better optical data storage.  |
Job Journal September 4, 2011 Deborah Brown-Volkman |
Career Pros: Beat the Career-Pattern Blues If co-workers were asked to criticize your performance, what would you guess they'd say? Knowing the answer to that question raises another. Why don't you make the changes necessary to improve your shortcomings?  |
Chemistry World January 28, 2008 Lewis Brindley |
Colourful Crystals Monitor Humidity Chinese chemists have developed a material that changes color according to the humidity of the air around it.  |
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.  |
Technology Research News June 16, 2004 |
Scheme Optimizes Light Chips Researchers have borrowed a design tool developed for mechanical engineering to improve the efficiency of nano-size optical waveguides.  |
Chemistry World August 18, 2008 |
Patterning Promise for Next-Gen Computers Breakthroughs in controlling the way polymers self-assemble on surfaces could be key to making the next generation of computer components, say two teams in the US.  |
JavaWorld April 2001 Bin Yang |
E++: A pattern language for J2EE applications, Part 1 E++, an Alexandrian pattern language, describes the process for creating a J2EE framework. Compared with a loose pattern collection, E++ provides rules for design patterns to work together in solving a set of related problems...  |
Chemistry World August 8, 2012 James Urquhart |
Liquid Gallium Lights Up US researchers have developed a nanomoulding technique for patterning liquid gallium that enables surface plasmons to become excited using visible light.  |
Technology Research News April 21, 2004 |
Printer Writes Micro 3D Objects University of Illinois researchers have come up with a new type of quick-setting three-dimensional ink that works a bit like a microscopic tube of toothpaste.  |
Technology Research News June 16, 2004 |
Laser Tweezer Grabs Varied Specks Researchers have advanced the use of optical tweezers with a method that allows them to simultaneously trap and independently manipulate microscopic materials that have different indices of refraction.  |
The Motley Fool April 10, 2006 Selena Maranjian |
Technical Analysis Voodoo Investors who use technical analysis are really betting on the psychology of the market, as they scrutinize investor behavior. You'll find most sensible investors focusing on the fundamentals.  |
Technology Research News February 11, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Light-storing chip charted Storing light, even briefly, was considered impossible until recently. Since scientists have proved it could be done, they've been finding different ways of accomplishing the feat. A proposal for slowing and stopping light in photonic crystal promises to bring these experiments to the chip level.  |
Technology Research News November 19, 2003 |
Liquid Crystal Tunes Fiber Researchers have combined photonic crystal and liquid crystal to make an optical fiber whose properties can change according to temperature. The combination allows the researchers to change the properties of the light inside the fiber.  |
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.  |
Chemistry World December 10, 2007 Killugudi Jayaraman |
Scientists Trap Light in Nano-Soup Physicists in India, have demonstrated how to trap and retrieve light using a soup of micro- and nano-sized magnetic spheres.  |
Technology Research News March 10, 2004 |
Patterned fiber makes tiny scope Researchers from the University of Sydney in Australia have found a way to make an endoscope that's a dozen times smaller than today's 10-millimeter versions. The technology should make it possible to image areas that are inaccessible today.  |
Technology Research News February 11, 2004 |
Magnets tune photonic crystal Researchers from Fudan University in China have found that it is possible to use a magnetic field to quickly shift or block certain frequencies of electromagnetic signals passing through photonic crystals made from semiconductor material.  |
The Motley Fool September 17, 2004 |
Peering Into "Technical Analysis" Investors who use technical analysis are really betting on the psychology of the market as they scrutinize investor behavior.  |