Scientists Craft Tiny Transistor Powered by Your Own Cellular Fuel
The structure of Aleksandr Noy’s new transistor is unimpressively simple: just a carbon nanotube connecting two metal electrodes. But what makes it special is what he and his team use to control it:...
View ArticlePart-Human, Part-Machine Transistor Devised
asukasoryu writes “Man and machine can now be linked more intimately than ever, according to a new article in the journal ACS Nano Letters. Scientists have embedded a nano-sized transistor inside a...
View ArticleNanowire-Coated Cotton Cleans Water by Zapping Bacteria to Death
Illness-inducing bacteria, meet nano-engineered cotton–and a quick death. Researchers have created a new “filter” that zaps bacteria with electric fields to clean drinking water. They say their system...
View ArticleNew Battery Extracts Energy From the Ions in Plain Old Seawater
What’s the News: Scientists have created the first rechargeable battery that uses seawater and freshwater to generate electricity. If installed into every ocean-discharging river in the world (that’s...
View ArticleStamping Out Low-Cost Nanodevices
RogerRoast writes “Vanderbilt University scientists report that they have developed a simple technique for stamping patterns invisible to the human eye onto a special class of nanomaterials. According...
View ArticleTiny Biocomputer Can Detect Multiple Signs of Disease
What’s the News: One of biologists’ favorite fantasies is a doctor who can fit inside a cell. This tiny physician, likely a device built from DNA, would make diagnoses by sensing molecules floating...
View ArticleResearchers Create Glass Just 3 Atoms Thick
sciencehabit writes “Researchers have created the world’s thinnest pane of glass. The glass, made of silicon and oxygen, formed accidentally when the scientists were making graphene, an atom-thick...
View ArticleAussie, Finnish Researchers Create a Single-Atom Transistor
ACKyushu writes “Researchers from Helsinki University of Technology (Finland), University of New South Wales (Australia), and University of Melbourne (Australia) have succeeded in building a working...
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