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Articles tagged with: Nanotubes
Better control of carbon nanotube 'growth' promising for future electronics
Researchers have overcome a major obstacle in efforts to use tiny structures called carbon nanotubes to create a new class of electronics that would be faster and smaller than conventional silicon-based transistors. more
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Researchers develop new method for producing transparent conductors
..ene is an excellent electrical conductor, and carbon nanotubes are good candidates for transparent conductors because they provide conduction of electricity using very little material. Yang and Kaner's new single-step method for combining the t more
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MIT virus battery could power cars, electronic devices
..lves with iron phosphate, then grab hold of carbon nanotubes to create a network of highly conductive material. Because the viruses recognize and bind specifically to certain materials (carbon nanotubes in this case), each iron phosphate nanow more
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Spinning carbon nanotubes spawns new wireless applications
..m of researchers at the University of Cincinnati, known for their world record-breaking carbon nanotubes, has discovered new applications of use to both military and consumer audiences The University of Cincinnati has long been known for its w more
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Semiconducting Nanotubes Produced in Quantity
..ified that process to create exclusively semiconducting versions of these single-walled carbon nanotubes. The achievement paves the way for manufacturing reliable electronic nanocircuits at the ultra-small billionths of a meter scale, said Jie L more
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Miniaturizing memory: Taking data storage to the molecular level
..sity of Nottingham are now exploring ways of exploiting the unique properties of carbon nanotubes to create a cheap and compact memory cell that uses little power and writes information at high speeds. Miniaturisation of computer devices invol more
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Nano-Scale Springs to Protect Mobile Phones from Damage
..at San Diego, the team has shown that layers of these tiny springs called coiled carbon nanotubes, each a thousand times smaller than a human hair, can act as extremely resilient shock absorbers. Similar coiled carbon nanotubes have been made more
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Nanonet circuits closer to making flexible electronics reality
Researchers have overcome a major obstacle in producing transistors from networks of carbon nanotubes, a technology that could make it possible to print circuits on plastic sheets for applications including flexible displays. more
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Nanoribbons could make smaller, speedier computer chips
.. his own group, have shown that carbon nanotubes outperform silicon in speed by a factor of two, the problem is that not all of the tubes, which can have 1-nanometer diameters, are semiconducting, Dai said. "Depending on their structure, s more
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Nanotubes Outperform Copper Nanowires as Chip Interconnects
.. research team. "Given the data we collected, we believe that carbon nanotubes at 45 nanometers will outperform copper nanowire." The research results will be featured in the March issue of Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter. Beca more
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