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- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- IBM experimenting with DNA to build chips
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- Discussion threads 2008-02-20
- Passive Wireless Sensing Using SWNT- Based Multifunctional Thin Film Patches
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- White papers 2008-02-18
- Year of the nanotube
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- Blog posts 2008-01-29
- A nanotechnology award for NASA
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- Carbon Nanotube Bumps for Thermal and Electric Conduction in Transistor
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- White papers 2007-10-01
- Filming nanotubes inside living animals
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- Blog posts 2007-09-25
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- Blog posts 2007-08-24
- Nano propellers for drug deliveries
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- The world's longest carbon nanotube
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- Blog posts 2007-04-27
- The best of two nanoworlds
- As you probably know by now, carbon nanotubes show amazing mechanical strength, while metal nanowires show very interesting optical and electrical properties. Combining both has proved to be a challenge. But if it was possible, this would open the way to the use of carbon nanotubes in computer chips, displays...
- Blog posts 2007-01-15
- Piano nanowires
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- Blog posts 2006-11-28
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