Rice engineers show how water molecules square up in nanotubes Here’s one way to fit a square peg into a round hole. First, according to Rice University engineers, get a nanotube hole. Then... Read more
University of Illinois researchers have developed a way to heal gaps in wires too small for even the world’s tiniest soldering iron. Led by electrical and computer engineering professor Jose... Read more
The silicon surface around it showed up as nothing but a uniform field of black Although Klingon-style disappearing spaceships may not be in our neighborhood any time soon, the techno... Read more
Mice are frequently used as lab models when testing new drugs, and fluorescent dyes are sometimes injected into their bodies so that researchers can better see how those drugs are progressin... Read more
A combination of light weight AND strength makes advanced composite materials very useful when building something that’s designed to go fast while being subjected to physical stress... Read more
A spongy substance that could be mistaken for packing material has the nanotechnology world buzzing. University of Central Florida Associate Professor Lei Zhai and postdoctoral associate Jia... Read more
Single-walled carbon nanotubes are an essential component of many innovations in the field of nanotechnology, with particular potential in the fields of electronics, optics, and automotive t... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Researchers in the laboratory of Samuel I. Stupp at Northwestern University have an interesting approach for tackling some major health problems: gather raw materials and... Read more
Two years ago, Chinese scientists coated one side of a flag with a thin sheet of nanotubes, then played a song using the flapping sheet-coated flag as a speaker. It was a demonstration of fl... Read more
As their name suggests, most existing water purifying filters clean the water by physically trapping or filtering out bacteria. Stanford researchers have now developed a new kind of water pu... Read more
Electronic products pollute our environment with a number of heavy metals before, during and after they’re used. In the U.S. alone, an estimated 70% of heavy metals in landfill come fr... Read more