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Tag: carbon nanotubes
Carbon nanotube transistor outperform silicon for the first time — a turning point in electronics
Scientists devise the most promising carbon nanotube transistors yet.
3D stacked computer chips could make computers 1,000 times faster
Computer chips today have billions of tiny transistors just a few nanometers wide (a hair is 100nm thick), all crammed ...
Stacked “high-rise” computer chips add a new dimension to manufacturing
Moore's law says that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit doubles every two years, hence doubling also the ...
Modern Blacksmithery: forging a 320 Layer Damascus Steel Blade
In the Middle Ages, Blacksmiths were highly regarded, and this was one of the most active industries. Nowadays, with modern ...
Blackest material resembles a black hole. It’s so black you can’t even see it
A sample of the new material. Image credit: Surrey Nanosystems You might have thought black is too solemn or boring, ...
Carbon nanotube fiber can carry four times more charge than copper
Reliable, well supplied and with years and years of manufacturing experience behind it, copper is the most widespread material used ...
New technique that allows self-soldering of carbon nanotubes may help replace silicon transistors
Carbon nanotubes and graphene have been hailed time and again as the wonder materials that will change the face of ...
First computer made out of carbon nanotubes spells silicon demise in electronics
In an inspiring breakthrough, Stanford researchers have created the first ever working computer made entirely out of carbon nanotubes. The ...
New method allows large molecules to get squeezed through cell membranes
A group of researchers at MIT have devised a new method for infiltrating cells with large molecules such as nanoparticles ...
Super-strong artificial muscles made from nanotech yarn
Scientists at University of Texas Dallas have made artificial muscles capable of supporting 100,000 times their own weight and generate ...
First all-carbon solar cell promises to lower industry cost
Scientists at Stanford University have successfully devised the world's first solar cell made entirely out of carbon. This alternative to ...
Carbon nanotubes drawn with a pencil render cheap and reliable sensors
Researchers at MIT have developed a novel technique of creating cheap and reliable sensors for toxic gases by simply etching ...
The most sensitive scale in the world can measure to the yoctogram (proton’s mass)
While on the macro-scale conventional scales make us of gravity to measure mass, on the microscale there are a myriad ...
Scientists discover novel way of making carbon nanotubes
A team of researchers comprised of scientists at the NanoScience Center of the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, and at Harvard ...
Going WAY Up? Japanese corporation wants to build space elevator by 2050
This is the kind of engineering feat that sounds so preposterous, so crazy, so ... foolish, that it might actually ...
Butterfly wings inspire ultra-sensitive infrared thermal imaging
Butterflies are one of the most enchanting beings in the animal kingdom, a symbol of grace and beauty encountered in ...
Skin-like material that stretches and senses might bring the tactile to the artificial
In the new mobile information age where smartphones have become an ever common part of our lives, there seems to ...
Nanotubes seen inside living animals
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are allotropes of carbon. Their strength and flexibility makes them useful in controlling other nanoscale structures, ...
