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August/September 2010
Papers of Note
Stick individual bismuth atoms in silicon chips and you're a step closer to practical quantum computers.
The initialization and manipulation of quantum information stored in silicon by bismuth dopants, Nature Materials
Squeeze zinc oxide nanowires and you have a new way to compute.
Strain-Gated Piezotronic Logic Nanodevices, Advanced Materials
Stories Elsewhere
Frog eggs could help robot noses sniff pollutants, Cnet
(Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences paper Highly sensitive and selective odorant sensor using living cells expressing insect olfactory receptors)
Tiny
Probes Measure Signals Inside Cells, Technology Review(Source: Science paper Three-Dimensional, Flexible Nanoscale Field-Effect Transistors as Localized Bioprobes)
Antenna directs light at the nanoscale, physicsworld.com
Nano Antenna Steers Photons, Technology Review
(Source: Science paper Unidirectional Emission of a Quantum Dot Coupled to a Nanoantenna)
Graphene Could Improve DNA Sequencing, Technology Review
(Source: Nature paper Graphene as a subnanometre trans-electrode membrane)
An Implantable Antenna, Technology Review
(Source: Advanced Materials paper Metamaterial Silk Composites at Terahertz Frequencies)
Fluorescent dye boosts metamaterial performance, physicsworld.com
(Source: Nature paper Loss-free and active optical negative-index metamaterials)
Features
Nano
cancer drugs move to the next level: humansA growing number of cancer therapies packaged in infinitesimal particles are making their way to patients.
Can nanotech beat cancer?
Cancer will always be with us in some form, but the fear and devastation it causes could be history within a generation. We'll have the tiniest of things to thank for it.
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