News articles tagged with 'nanowire'
Engineers create vibrant colours in vertical silicon nanowires
— 4 Apr 2011 18:36 | TechnologyEngineers may soon be singing, 'I'm going to wash that grey right out of my nanowires,' thanks to a colourful discovery by a team of researchers from Harvard University and Zena Technologies.…
From science fiction to research breakthrough
— 2 Apr 2011 10:52 | TechnologyFocusing on interdisciplinary research is now leading to breakthroughs in bio nanotechnology research. A new method for drug development has become a reality…
Novel nanowires boost fuel cell efficiency
— 1 Apr 2011 15:09 | TechnologyFuel cells have been touted as a cleaner solution to tomorrow's energy needs, with potential applications in everything from cars to computers…
Stretched rubber offers simpler method for assembling nanowires
— 28 Feb 2011 17:01 | TechnologyResearchers at North Carolina State University have developed a cheap and easy method for assembling nanowires, controlling their alignment and density. The researchers hope the findings…
Nanowires exhibit giant piezoelectricity
— 26 Jan 2011 19:28 | TechnologyGallium nitride (GaN) and zinc oxide (ZnO) are among the most technologically relevant semiconducting materials. Gallium nitride is ubiquitous today in optoelectronic elements such…
Coiled nanowires may hold key to stretchable electronics
— 12 Jan 2011 18:10 | TechnologyResearchers at North Carolina State University have created the first coils of silicon nanowire on a substrate that can be stretched to more than double their original length, moving…
Rice researchers take molecule's temperature
— 14 Dec 2010 21:09 | TechnologyYou can touch a functioning light bulb and know right away that it's hot. Ouch! But you can't touch a single molecule and get the same feedback…
Single quantum dot nanowire photodetectors
— 14 Dec 2010 18:45 | PhysicsMoving a step closer toward quantum computing, a research team in the Netherlands recently fabricated a photodetector based on a single nanowire, in which the active element is a single…
Better batteries from the bottom up
— 10 Dec 2010 21:27 | TechnologyRice University researchers have moved a step closer to creating robust, three-dimensional microbatteries that would charge faster and hold other advantages over conventional lithium-ion…
New ultra-clean nanowires have great potential
— 11 Nov 2010 11:53 | TechnologyNew ultra-clean nanowires produced at the Nano-Science Centre, University of Copenhagen will have a central role in the development of new high-efficiency solar cells and electronics…