Gallery - Art on a chip: Accidental beauty at the nanoscale - Image 1 - New Scientist

Gallery - Art on a chip: Accidental beauty at the nanoscale - Image 1 - New Scientist: "Spend enough time with your eyes glued to a microscope and you will happen upon some beautiful structure, cell or circuit. Scientists who work at the nanoscale often create and manipulate their experiments to make them even more appealing to the eye. It is in this vein that the journal Lab on a Chip has created a Flickr page, Art on a Chip. Here are a few of our favourites."

I-Micronews - NANOMATERIALS TECHNO: Nearly hard as steel: Aluminum with fullerenes...

I-Micronews - NANOMATERIALS TECHNO: Nearly hard as steel: Aluminum with fullerenes... They are adding fullerenes—soccer ball-shaped molecules comprising 60 carbon atoms— to aluminum to obtain a new material that is roughly three times harder than conventional composites, yet weights much less. The lightweight yet strong aluminum could be used to improve the performance of compressors, turbochargers and engines.

Magnets trump metallics: Magnetic fields can turn highly conductive nanotubes into semiconductors

Magnets trump metallics: Magnetic fields can turn highly conductive nanotubes into semiconductors: "ScienceDaily (July 13, 2010) — Metallic carbon nanotubes show great promise for applications from microelectronics to power lines because of their ballistic transmission of electrons. But who knew magnets could stop those electrons in their tracks?"

Silicon chip speed record broken on a lead-coated track - tech - 16 July 2010 - New Scientist

Silicon chip speed record broken on a lead-coated track - tech - 16 July 2010 - New Scientist: "Yeom's team added an atom-thick layer of lead to the surface of a silicon block. Because the lead layer is so thin, the arrangement of its atoms is influenced by the silicon atoms underneath. The team suspected that the lead's electrons would, in turn, influence the electronic structure of the silicon at the interface."

I-Micronews - NANOMATERIALS : Nanotubes pass acid test...

I-Micronews - NANOMATERIALS : Nanotubes pass acid test...: "Rice University scientists have found the 'ultimate' solvent for all kinds of carbon nanotubes (CNTs), a breakthrough that brings the creation of a highly conductive quantum nanowire ever closer.

Nanotubes have the frustrating habit of bundling, making them less useful than when they're separated in a solution. Rice scientists led by Matteo Pasquali, a professor in chemical and biomolecular engineering and in chemistry, have been trying to untangle them for years as they look for scalable methods to make exceptionally strong, ultralight, highly conductive materials that could revolutionize power distribution, such as the armchair quantum wire."

Graphene 2.0: A new approach to making a unique material

Graphene 2.0: A new approach to making a unique material: "ScienceDaily (July 5, 2010) — Since its discovery, graphene -- an unusual and versatile substance composed of a single-layer crystal lattice of carbon atoms -- has caused much excitement in the scientific community. Now, Nongjian (NJ) Tao, a researcher at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University has hit on a new way of making graphene, maximizing the material's enormous potential, particularly for use in high-speed electronic devices"

Nanoparticle bandages could detect and treat infection - health - 09 July 2010 - New Scientist

Nanoparticle bandages could detect and treat infection - health - 09 July 2010 - New Scientist: "A 'self-medicating' bandage could become a mainstay of burns units. Laced with nanoparticles, it detects harmful bacteria in a wound and responds by secreting antibiotics."

I-Micronews - NANOMATERIALS : The thinnest, smoothest metallic lines in the world helps ...

I-Micronews - NANOMATERIALS : The thinnest, smoothest metallic lines in the world helps ...: "Scientists from Singapore A*STAR’s Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), University of Cambridge (UK) and Sungkyunkwan University (South Korea) have created metallic lines so thin and smooth that they can only be seen using powerful electron microscopes. This research will be published in the July issue of Advanced Functional Materials, the leading full-paper materials science journal."

Nanoparticle scientist speaks on new discoveries

Nanoparticle scientist speaks on new discoveries: "'Nanoparticles are everywhere. You eat them, drink them, breathe them, pay to have them, and pay even more to get rid of them,' Navrotsky said. Nanomaterials science deals with particles that are about one billionth of a meter long."

Researchers create self-assembling nanodevices that move and change shape on demand

Researchers create self-assembling nanodevices that move and change shape on demand: "ScienceDaily (June 23, 2010) — By emulating nature's design principles, a team at Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has created nanodevices made of DNA that self-assemble and can be programmed to move and change shape on demand. In contrast to existing nanotechnologies,"

Nanowires for future electronics: Process for manufacturing nanoelectronic 'mini-circuits' developed

Nanowires for future electronics: Process for manufacturing nanoelectronic 'mini-circuits' developed: "Scientists at Empa have developed a new method which allows them to create simple networks of organic nanowires."