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| Paper of Note |
| Nanowire channels light for single-cell endoscopy |
| January 9, 2012 |
| Stick a nanowire on the end of an optical fiber and
you have an endoscope for peering inside living cells. Nanowire-based single-cell endoscopy, Nature Nanotechnology |
| Paper of Note |
| Nanoantennas boost optical trapping |
| January 9, 2012 |
| Make arrays of gold nano bowties and you can
efficiently trap, stack and sort tiny particles using light beams. Application of Plasmonic Bowtie Nanoantenna Arrays for Optical Trapping, Stacking, and Sorting, Nano Letters |
| Paper of Note |
| Tunnel junction direction makes better memory |
| January 9, 2012 |
| Measure the direction electrons prefer when they
take a quantum leap, and you have a highly efficient nonvolatile
computer memory. Solid-state memories based on ferroelectric tunnel junctions, Nature Nanotechnology |
| Blog: Research Watch |
| Trillion frames per second |
| December 15, 2011 |
| Stitch together
multiple images taken with multiple sensors, and you have a video
camera that captures the equivalent of a trillion frames per second. |
| Blog: Research Watch |
| Vibrating PINs |
| December 15, 2011 |
| Replacing keypads with vibrating touchscreen
surfaces promises peek-proof PIN entry. |
| Blog: Eric on Energy |
| Pressing need for renewables as nuke industry shakes off Fukushima |
| September 6, 2011 |
| September 11 is the 10th anniversary of the
infamous terrorist attacks.
It also marks six months since the Fukushima earthquake and tsunami, a
disaster that triggered global soul-searching about nuclear energy. |
| Paper of Note |
| Slow light gets down to a few photons |
| August 15, 2011 |
| Chill a bunch of atoms inside a photon trap, and
you can slow down a light pulse made up of just a few photons. This
could help shuttle information around inside quantum computers. Vacuum-Induced Transparency, Science |
| Paper of Note |
| Tiny channels yield onion-like particles |
| August 22, 2011 |
| Force oil and water to flow into each other inside
tiny channels and you can make onion-like particles-within-particles
useful for e-ink and delivering multiple drugs at once. One-Step Emulsification of Multiple Concentric Shells with Capillary Microfluidic Devices, Angewandte Chemie International Edition |
| Paper of Note |
| Inkjetting prints fast, flexible circuits |
| July 29, 2011 |
| Spray the right cocktail through an inkjet
printhead, and you can print single-crystal semiconductors to make fast
transistors for flexible surfaces. Inkjet printing of single-crystal films, Nature |
| Paper of Note |
| Nanotube-protein pair smells |
| July 29, 2011 |
| Connect olfactory proteins to carbon nanotubes and
you have the makings of a lifelike artificial nose. Biomimetic Chemical Sensors Using Nanoelectronic Readout of Olfactory Receptor Proteins, ACS Nano |
| Paper of Note |
| Batteries get see-through treatment |
| July 25, 2011 |
| Fill a flexible, transparent material’s microscopic
channels with the stuff of battery electrodes, and you have a bendable,
see-through battery. Pair this battery with see-through circuits, and
you can make all manner of transparent gadgets. Transparent lithium-ion batteries, Proceedings of the National Academy Of Sciences |
| Paper of Note |
| Chemistry promises tomorrow’s computer circuits |
| July 25, 2011 |
| Mix up a batch of the right super-size molecules
and you get networks of intersecting nanoscale wires. The technique
could be used to grow tomorrow’s computer circuits. Self-assembly of supramolecular wires and cross-junctions and efficient electron tunnelling across them, Chemical Science |
| Paper of Note |
| Carbon nanotube materials made easier |
| July 22, 2011 |
| Confine the right chemical reaction to to the right
places on carbon nanotubes, and you can keep the nanotubes from
clumping together while preserving the tubes’ useful electrical and
optical properties. This makes it easier to manufacture inexpensive,
transparent electronics, including flexible displays. Confined propagation of covalent chemical reactions on single-walled carbon nanotubes, Nature Communications |
| Stories Elsewhere |
| Time "invisibility", "humanized" mouse livers |
| July 22, 2011 |
| - First
Demonstration of Time Cloaking, Physics arXiv Blog - Scientists Punch a Hole in the Fabric of Time with a "Time Cloak", Gizmodo (Source: arXiv Physics Archive paper Demonstration of temporal cloaking) - Coming Soon: Pharmaceutical Testing On Mice With Human-Like Livers, Fast Company - Mice with human livers deal with drugs the human way, Nature News - A New Way to Test Drugs: in Mice With Human Livers, Discover (Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences paper Humanized mice with ectopic artificial liver tissues) |
| Stories Elsewhere - Energy |
| Storing solar energy, battery supermaterial goes commercial |
| July 11, 2011 |
| - New
fuel discovered that reversibly stores solar energy, Ars
Technica - Carbon nanotubes could store solar energy, Physicsworld.com (Source: Nano Letters paper Azobenzene-Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes As High-Energy Density Solar Thermal Fuels) - Nanostructures Could Result In Cheaper Electric-Car Batteries, Technology Review (Update related to Nanoparticles promise superfast batteries, Energy Research News) |
| Stories Elsewhere |
| Tomorrow's memory, DNA-built antenna, "transparent" photonics |
| July 11, 2011 |
| - Samsung
Boosts ReRAM's Rewritability to 1 Trillion Times, Nikkei
Electronics (Source: Nature Materials paper A fast, high-endurance and scalable non-volatile memory device made from asymmetric Ta2O5-x/TaO2-x bilayer structures) - New Method for Building Complex Structures from Quantum Dots Proposed, IEEE Spectrum - Researchers Use DNA Coax Quantum Dots Into Self-Assembling into a Light Antenna, Popular Science (Source: Nature Nanotechnology paper DNA-based programming of quantum dot valency, self-assembly and luminescence) - “Transparent” photonics chip may lead to faster networks and cloaks of invisibility, ExtremeTech (Source: Nature Photonics paper Zero phase delay in negative-refractive-index photonic crystal superlattices) |
| Blog: Eric on Energy |
| Weather change |
| June 30, 2011 |
| If you want a clear explanation of the relationship
between climate change and weather, check out Global Warming and the
Science of Extreme Weather on Scientific American's site. |
| Blog: Eric on Energy |
| Stern looking at even sterner situation |
| June 30, 2011 |
| Nicholas Stern, the former World Bank top economist
who made waves five years ago with the Stern Review that called for
investments equal to 1% of global GDP... |
| Paper of Note |
| Molecular chains promise ultra-high capacity storage |
| June 23, 2011 |
| Arrange a chain of single molecules in the right
way, and you have a magnetic bit a thousand times smaller than the bits
in today’s memory and disk drives. Influence of structure on exchange strength and relaxation barrier in a series of FeIIReIV(CN)2 single-chain magnets, Chemical Science |
| Stories Elsewhere |
| Nanoparticles communicate to swarm tumors |
| June 21, 2011 |
| Nanodrug Swarms Use The Human Body's
Biocommunications System to Coordinate Their Attack, Popular Science MIT’s New Nanoparticles Tag Team Cancer Cells, Gizmodo Two Types of Nanoparticles Work Together to Target Tumors, Discover (Source: Nature Materials paper Nanoparticles that communicate in vivo to amplify tumour targeting) |
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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Email conversations with researchers in high places.
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Air battery to let electric cars outlast gas guzzlers
IEEE Spectrum
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New Camera Captures Light in Motion
New Scientist
Haptic code-entry makes PINs a touch harder to steal
Technology Review
A Brighter Way to Make Solar Cells
Technology Review
Giving Prosthetics a Sense of Touch
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Dipping May Improve Ultracapacitors and Batteries
New Scientist
Life-like cells are made of metal
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A New and Improved Moore's Law
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What It Takes to Power Google
Scientific American
Switch from coal to natural gas no boon to climate
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New Superconductor Wires Could Give Renewable Energy More Charge
New Scientist
Control your phone with a kick
IEEE Spectrum
Footfalls for Phone Calls
IEEE Spectrum
Optoelectronics Appear as Hopeful Application for Graphene
physicsworld.com
Computer architecture recreated on quantum device
Technology Review
The First Fully Stretchable OLED
Technology Review
IBM's New Chips Compute More Like We Do
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Researchers make wearable antenna breakthrough
The Register
Caltech sends light on a one-way trip
Science News
Computers get under our skin
Ars Technica
DNA circuits used to make neural network, store memories
Technology Review
Nanostructures Could Result In Cheaper Electric-Car Batteries
| "In most
areas of science and technology, the origins of new breakthroughs can
still be found in the work of a small number of people -- or even a
single person -- working at their own pace on their own questions,
pursuing things that interest them. " - Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University |
| "Funding,
of course, enables discoveries but does not guarantee they will occur.
Lack of funding can almost certainly guarantee that discoveries will
not be made." - Ronald Arkin, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| "Physics
is to the rest of science what machine tools are to engineering. A
corollary is that science places power in our hands which can be used
for good or ill. Technology has been abused in this way throughout the
ages from gunpowder to atomic bombs." - John Pendry, Imperial College London |
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