A scanning electron microscope image of the silver nanowires in which the cotton is dipped during the process of constructing a filter. The large fibers are cotton. (Yi Cui) Stanford researchers have developed a water-purifying filter that makes the process more ...

This summer I attended Singularity University’s graduate studies program. Alongside 79 extraordinary entrepreneurs and scientists from around the globe, I had the opportunity to learn from some of the best minds in the world about a variety of rapidly advancing ...

UCLA researchers have fabricated the fastest graphene transistor to date, using a new fabrication process with a nanowire as a self-aligned gate. Self-aligned gates are a key element in modern transistors, which are semiconductor devices used to amplify and switch electronic signals. Gates ...

A new “smart materials” process — Multiple Memory Material Technology — developed by University of Waterloo engineering researchers promises to revolutionize the manufacture of diverse products such as medical devices, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), printers, hard drives, automotive components, valves and ...

Sugar, salt, alcohol and a little serendipity led a Northwestern University research team to discover a new class of nanostructures that could be used for gas storage and food and medical technologies. And the compounds are edible. The porous crystals are ...

(Heath group/Caltech) Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have devised a new technique — using a sheet of carbon just one atom thick — to visualize the structure of molecules. The technique, which was used to obtain the first ...

Memristor (StanWilliams, HP Labs) Hewlett-Packard announced today that it has entered an agreement with the Korean electronics manufacturer Hynix Semiconductor to make memristors, starting in 2013. Storage devices made of memristors will allow PCs, cellphones, and servers to store more and switch ...

Rice University scientists have created the first two-terminal memory chips that use only silicon to generate nanocrystal wires as small as 5 nanometers — far smaller than circuitry in even the most advanced computers and electronic devices. The technology breakthrough ...

Researchers are developing methods borrowed from medical nanotech to locate and extract the estimated 360 billion barrels of remaining oil in old U.S. oil fields. Originally posted here: Medical nanotech could find unconventional oil

This V-shaped nanowire, shown near a cluster of cells, has a transistor at its tip. When inserted into a cell, the transistor can send and receive electrical signals. The probe is attached to electrical contacts on a flexible backing. ...

The International Conference on Physics, Science, and Technology welcomes papers on dozens of subtopics, including quantum, nuclear, applied, solid state, computational, plasma, non-linear, medical, nanoscale, particle, condensed matter, environmental, and industrial physics.  Papers are also welcome on farther-ranging topics such ...