A wire made from nanotubes. A nanowire allows a much lower current to flow compared to metal wire. See nanotube.
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- Nanoparticles used to trap oil drops
- Rice University researchers have found a new way to spontaneously assemble nanoparticles into bag-like sacs. Their 'nanobatons' could be used to clean up oil spills by trapping oil droplets in polluted waters. These nanoparticles could even be more useful for delivering drugs. The researchers found that 'ultraviolet light and magnetic...
- Blog posts 2008-05-31
- Growing nano pine trees in Wisconsin
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- Blog posts 2008-05-02
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- New nanotechnology fabrication techniques
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- Blog posts 2007-11-13
- Are SSDs ready for prime time?
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- 100,000 year nanowire storage
- 100,000 year nanowire storageMore on faste nanowiresGood morning,I already wrote about these faster nanowires last month on my ZDNet blog. Please check "Faster memories made of nanowires" (http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=695) for more details.Roland Piquepaille.And this is why I think HD Optical DIsk Formats are DOASounds perfect!RE: 100,000 year nanowire storagePetabytes to Infinity...
- Discussion threads 2007-10-03
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- 100,000 year nanowire storage
- For all the technology we use to store data, there is one problem that has no good solution: longevity. Some scientists at the University of Pennsylvania - home of some of the first computers - have developed a new kind of memory that is 1,000x faster than flash and should...
- Blog posts 2007-10-02
- Self-powered nanowires
- Many research teams around the world are building nanodevices of some kind. But these very small devices need very small sources of power to be fully functional. Now, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign UIUC have shown that a single nanowire can produce power by harvesting mechanical energy...
- Blog posts 2007-09-29
- Faster memories made of nanowires
- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed self-assembling nanowires which will allow to access data 1,000 times faster than current technologies such as Flash memory. They've used nanowires made of germanium, antimony and tellurium which can switch between amorphous and crystalline structures -- the equivalent of 0's and 1's....
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- A new nanowire light source
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- Discussion threads 2007-07-02
- A new nanowire light source
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- Blog posts 2007-07-02
- Nanowire photodetectors
- According to researchers at the University of California at San Diego UCSD, semiconducting nanowires can be used to build perfect light detectors with single-photon sensitivity. The zinc oxide ZnO nanowires theyve used are ideally suited to develop "new photodetector architectures for sensing, imaging, memory storage, intrachip optical communications and other...
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- Will nanogenerators replace batteries?
- Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have built prototypes of a nanogenerator providing continuous electrical power by "harvesting mechanical energy from such environmental sources as ultrasonic waves, mechanical vibration or blood flow." According to the scientists, the prototype could produce as much as 4 watts per cubic centimeter. This...
- Blog posts 2007-04-09
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- Blog posts 2007-01-15
- A 2-nanometer-high Solomon's knot
- UCLA chemists have built a molecular Solomons knot at the nanoscale. The Solomons knot is composed of two rings that interlace each other four times, with alternating crossing points that go over, under, over and under as one traces around each of the rings. This nano-version is roughly 2 nanometers...
- Blog posts 2007-01-14
- Nanotubes can resist to 400,000 atmospheres
- Can you believe that carbon nanotubes can resist to pressures as high as 40 gigapascals -- or about a tenth of the one at the center of the Earth? When this limit is reached, they collapse. But before breaking, they propagate this pressure to whatever has been put inside them,...
- Blog posts 2006-05-28
- Holograms to help nanotechnology
- In a very short but intriguing article, Technology Research News TRN writes that researchers from Harvard University and New York University have found a way to use holographic optical traps HOTs to manipulate semiconductor nanowires. As this holographic approach to nano-assembly can allow for simultaneous independent manipulation of multiple nanowires,...
- Blog posts 2005-11-10
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- White papers 2005-04-26
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