News articles tagged with 'nanoscale'
Getting the point: Real-time monitoring of atomic-microscope probes adjusts for wear
— 1 Apr 2011 15:24 | TechnologyScientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a way to measure the wear and degradation of the microscopic probes used to study nanoscale structures…
Next-generation chemical mapping on the nanoscale
— 29 Mar 2011 16:55 | TechnologyA pixel is worth a thousand words? Not exactly how the saying goes, but in this case, it holds true: scientists at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry have pioneered a new chemical mapping…
Surgeons predict the future of nanomedicine in practice
— 2 Mar 2011 12:46 | HealthA new review published in WIREs Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology explores how nanotechnology may provide powerful new tools that could have a marked impact on the therapeutic and…
Seeing the light: Berkeley Lab scientists bring plasmonic nanofields into focus
— 5 Feb 2011 14:30 | TechnologyIn typical plasmonic devices, electromagnetic waves crowd into tiny metal structures, concentrating energy into nanoscale dimensions. Due to coupling of electronics and photonics in…
A nanoscale rope, and another step toward complex nanomaterials that assemble themselves
— 20 Jan 2011 16:13 | TechnologyScientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have coaxed polymers to braid themselves into wispy nanoscale ropes that approach…
Scientists advance the understanding of the big getting bigger
— 5 Nov 2010 14:33 | TechnologyPatricia Thiel of Iowa State University and the Ames Laboratory put a box of tissues to the right, a stack of coasters to the middle and a trinket box to the left…
Solar cells thinner than wavelengths of light hold huge power potential
— 29 Sep 2010 17:20 | TechnologyIn the smooth, white, bunny-suited clean-room world of silicon wafers and solar cells, it turns out that a little roughness may go a long way, perhaps all the way to making solar power…
Nano antenna concentrates light
— 21 Sep 2010 11:58 | TechnologyEverybody who's ever used a TV, radio or cell phone knows what an antenna does: It captures the aerial signals that make those devices practical. A lab at Rice University has built…
Good vibrations: New atom-scale products on horizon
— 23 Aug 2010 18:00 | TechnologyThe generation of an electric field by the compression and expansion of solid materials is known as the piezoelectric effect, and it has a wide range of applications ranging from everyday…
The nano world of Shrinky Dinks
— 14 Aug 2010 08:24 | TechnologyThe magical world of Shrinky Dinks - an arts and crafts material used by children since the 1970s - has taken up residence in a Northwestern University laboratory. A team of nanoscientists…