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Japanese Scientists Work on a Flexible Battery |
 ...ishide, Hiroaki Konishi and Takeo Suga, all of them from the Waseda University, are considered to improve the technology. Their development is based on a redox-active polymer film, which is about 400 nanometers thick. The charge carriers of this battery are the Nitroxide radical groups. Due to a high radical density these thin batteries have a high level of charging and discharging.
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Invisibility is now one step closer |
| ...Using the nanotechnology scientists were able to make a significant step towards inventing an "optical cloaking", which represents a device able to make objects invisible. The device guides light around anything that is placed withing the so-called "cloak".
The engineers at Purdue University have followed mathematical guidelines that were devised last year by the UK physicists to create a theoretical design, which in i... |
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Nano-nose to help identify illnesses |
 ...Nanoparticles are used by U.S. researchers to 'smell' the scent of illnesses in fluids of the body. The researchers used nanoparticles of gold with different coatings to distinguish among different proteins and detect the illness, as reported by the New Scientist.
According to Vince Rotello from the University of Massachusetts the human nose has a series of receptors, which react differently to different compounds. Thu... |
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Computers of the Future to be Made from Pencil Trace |
| ...Researchers of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have conducted special experiments that could lead to a major discovery how to use graphene as a heir to copper and silicon presently used in nanoelectronics. Graphene represents a sheet of carbon that is just one-atom-thick . It was made by scientists in 2004 with the help of common clear adhesive tape bought in a store. Most pencils use graphite that is made up of many gra... |
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Levitation Possible in Real World |
 ...ny objects. At present moment scientists have not revealed the secret of levitation for human beings.
If the theory is borne out, it will most probably cause revolutionary changes in the field of nano-technology as well as the construction of micro-machines.
The theory suggested by the British scientists is based on a quirk of nature that lets particles to pop into existence from actually nowhere. This phenomenon i... |
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The Nobel Prize 2007 Has Been Given Away |
 ...arious materials. Thus they are of opinion that if GMR would work, they would be able to produce layers of only a few atoms thick, so the GMR could also be considered one of the first applications of nanotechnology.
This years' Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to a German scientist, Gerhard Ertl, "for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces". This prize is an acknowledgement of the importance of Ertl's studies i... |
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Flash Memory Will Soon Become Obsolete |
 ...gy by 1,000 times in comparison with flash memory used nowadays. This means that memory of digital cameras, MP3 players and laptops could be considerably expanded.
The college's Center for Applied Nanoionics (CANi), where the new technique was introduced, challenged the physical limits of storage, using the new technique of nanoionics. This methodology uses the existent materials but mix them in a different way.
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Nanotubes Can be Produced from Bacteria |
 ...Scientists discovered that living bacteria can produce semiconducting nanotubes that have a great potential for their application in electronics, nanotechnology and other fields of material science.
Experts at the the University of California-Riverside and South Korea's Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology said that this scientific breakthrough might help in developing new nanoelectronic devices.
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Bionic Lens to Create Virtual Vision |
 ...sing microfabrication and self-assembly methods that are usually used to produce semiconductor chips.
Scientists manged to introduce the tiny layers of metal in a circuit pattern, being only few nanometers thick on PET(polyethylene terephthalate) material. In order to incorporate LEDs (light-emitting diodes) they made small openings on the surface of the lens to create an image on the back of the retina, thus making... |
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Scientists to Develop World's Smallest High Performance Sensor |
 ... Pr. Hiroshi Mizuta is working on a 3-year project, which will allow the production of world's smallest sensors. The project is funded by the European FP-7 and it is entitled NEMSIC, which stands for nano electro mechanical system integrated circuits.
The Seventh Framework Programme for research and technological development (FP7) is the central tool of the European Union for funding research throughout the period be... |
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Scientists One Step Closer to Creating Invisibility Material |
 ... thus making the plane difficult to track. It would be interesting to note that the funding of the research was provided partially by the US Army Research Office and the National Science Foundation's Nano-Scale Science and Engineering Center.
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald
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Apple iPod Nano Caused Fires in Japan |
 ...On Tuesday, August 19, the trade ministry of Japan stated that the overheated Apple iPod nanos were the cause of three fires. It was probably a defect in batteries that led to overheating. No casualties were registered in the three fires, but the Japanese government also mentioned other 2 fires caused by iPod nanos where people suffered minor burns.
It was mentioned that the defected iPod nanos were sold in Japan in the... |
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