Articles Nanotechnology Technology

Articles

Both news and opinion pieces in the media concerning molecular nanotechnology.

• - PhysicsWeb - A host of novel applications and new physics could be unleashed as microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) shrink towards the nanoscale (significant useful technical detail)
  
• - Technology Review - IBM researchers develop a technique for growing nanocrystals which yield perfectly aligned, dense groves of single-wall nanotubes, and controls exactly where the crystals are deposited.
  
• - Scientists from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have succeeded in fabricating the smallest single-walled carbon nanotube in the world, with a diameter of only 0.4 nanometers. (Standard nanotubes are 1.3 nm).
  
• - Transistors three atoms thick could boost chip speeds sixfold in five years.
  
• - IBM News - IBM scientists have developed a breakthrough transistor technology by building the world's first array of transistors out of carbon nanotubes using a new technique called "constructive destruction".
  
• - Latest nanotechnology news items from around the globe.
  
• - MSNBC: Technology on the Frontier - Virtual reality technology enables microscopic probing
  
• - EETimes - Japan's Institute of Physical and Chemical Research is close to developing the first single-electron tunneling transistor capable of operating at room temperature.
  
• - Ultra Precise Nanometer-scale 3D Production Technology used to make world's smallest wineglass
  
• - First nanorobot device design paper ever published in a peer-reviewed, mainstream medical journal.
  
• - About.com - The arrangement of atoms into cylindrical nanocrystals is a stable phase for numerous elements. The inert nature of boron nitride and tungsten disulfide nanotubes makes them particularly durable molecular components for NEMS.
  
• - Technology Research News - ory. Researchers at Drexel University have discovered giant nanotubes in the pores of glassy carbon, an industrial material. These graphite polyhedral crystals range up to several orders of magnitude larger than their nanometer-
  
• - Chembytes e-zine - Overview of nanotechnology: yesterday and today.
  
• - a transcript of the classic talk given by Richard Feynman at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society at Caltech.
  
• - Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and collaborators at Tsinghua University in Beijing have created a simplified method for making long, continuous, hair-like strands of carbon nanotubes that are as much as eight inches in length.
  
• - The Zettl Research Group create tiny frictionless bearings and springs out of nested multi-walled carbon nanotubes.
  
• - Scientists from Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs have created organic transistors with a single-molecule channel length.
  
• - Physics News - current densities hundreds of times greater than that of common metals; also: heat conductivity almost as high as that of diamond; superconductivity in nanotube ropes; nanotube/buckyball peapods; nanotubes as atomic force microscope probes.
  
• - Introduces the basic concepts, looks at the promise that this new technology holds, and describes the fundamental questions on how to achieve the proper results.
  
• - Major Milestone: scientists at the University of Berlin use a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) to manipulate single molecules to perform a complete chemical reaction.
  
• - MNT, being a new, highly interdisciplinary field with revolutionary implications, is bound to attract more than its fair share of bogosity. Short paper by K Eric Drexler.
  
• - News about nanotechnology, collected from various sources on the web.
  
• - Space Daily - using nanotubes to construct the cable for a space elevator
  
• - Far Eastern Economic Review - Nanotechnology has long had the potential to revolutionize a host of industries. Now it's on the threshold of having real-world applications.
  
• - Cornell Magazine OnLine - The Nanobiotechnology Center at Cornell University, and what their interdisciplinary group is up to.
  
• - Nanotechnology from science fiction to fact
  
• - HP Labs scientists have created the first molecular-based logic gate.
  
• - Scientific American - Nano-copter, Nano-arm, Nano-hand, and Nano-box
  
• - Why Files - Nanobelts join nanotubes in the world of nanotechnology.
  
• - Surveys recent works within the field.
  
• - It's a small, small, small, small world by Ralph C. Merkle. This is an extended web version of the article published in the Feb/Mar 1997 issue of MIT Technology Review. This version has greater technical detail and embedded links
  
• - BusinessWeek Online - excellent article on which companies are doing what in nanotechnology research and applications.
  
• - New Scientist - Russian physicist Tatiana Makarova heated and compressed buckyballs to create an at-room-temperature magnetic sheet.
  
  

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