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The Zettl Research Group create tiny frictionless bearings and springs out of nested multi-walled carbon nanotubes.
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07.27.00 UC Berkeley physicists create tiny bearings and springs out of carbon nanotubes for use in microscopic machines Berkeley physicists create tiny bearings and springs out of carbon nanotubes for use in microscopic machines 27 Jul 2000 By Robert Sanders, Media Relations Print-quality image available for download EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE UNTIL 2 P.M. EDT (11 A.M. PDT) THURSDAY,...Nanotechnology from science fiction to fact
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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
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Small world 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. SECTIONS: Introduction. The advantages of nanotechnology. Self assembly. Positional devices and positionally...First nanorobot device design paper ever published in a peer-reviewed, mainstream medical journal.
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Respirocytes: A Mechanical Artificial Red Cell TOC Please send comments to webmaster@foresight.org The original version of the refereed paper describing respirocytes was first submitted for publication on 17 April 1996 169; Copyright 1996 Robert A. Freitas Jr. This is the revised version of that 1996 paper. A...Major Milestone: scientists at the University of Berlin use a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) to manipulate single molecules to perform a complete chemical reaction.
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Physics News Update Number 503 Story SINGLE-MOLECULE STM CHEMISTRY The versatility and exactitude of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) is demonstrated in a new experiment at the Free University of Berlin, where scientists have for the first time manipulated single molecules to perform a complete chemical reaction. Saw-Wai Hla...HP Labs scientists have created the first molecular-based logic gate.
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HP Labs News Scientists are Building Computer Chips in a Whole New Way Researchers take first step toward building a computer in a test tube printable version HP Labs Research Advanced studies Internet computing platforms Printing imaging Solutions services News and events Technical reports About HP Labs Careers HP Labs People Worldwide sites...Ultra Precise Nanometer-scale 3D Production Technology used to make world's smallest wineglass
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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.
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Technology Review ...Chembytes e-zine - Overview of nanotechnology: yesterday and today.
http://www.chemsoc.org/chembytes/ezine/2000/rouvray_dec00.htm
PhysicsWeb - A host of novel applications and new physics could be unleashed as microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) shrink towards the nanoscale (significant useful technical detail)
http://physicsweb.org/article/world/14/2/8
Why Files - Nanobelts join nanotubes in the world of nanotechnology.
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Tighten your nano belt! Semiconducting oxide nanobelts of zinc oxide. The purity and shape of the nanobelts are shown by images from the scanning electron microscope, as shown on the left and transmission electron microscope images, on the right. Photos by Gary Meek, Courtesy...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.
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Physics News 531, March 22, 2001 Besides their strong mechanical properties, nanotubes have a variety of attractive electrical properties. Nanotubes, for example, can sustain current densities hundreds of times greater than that of common metals, and are created in both metallic and semiconducting form. Speaking at...Cornell Magazine OnLine - The Nanobiotechnology Center at Cornell University, and what their interdisciplinary group is up to.
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Size Matters.html Like the invention of the wheel and the advent of computers, nanotechnology could change the world. Question: How do you make a Nano S'more? Answer: Pretty much the same way you make a regular one. But in the nano version,...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".
http://www.ibm.com/news/2001/04/27.phtml
Space Daily - using nanotubes to construct the cable for a space elevator
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Getting A Lift From An Engineering Makeover Elevator concept is a structure extending from the surface of the Earth to geo-stationary Earth orbit (GEO Its center of mass is at GEO such that the entire structure orbits the Earth in sync with the Earth’s rotation maintaining a...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.
http://nanotech.about.com/scienc...ech/library/weekly/aa082000a.htm
MSNBC: Technology on the Frontier - Virtual reality technology enables microscopic probing
http://www.msnbc.com/news/514233.asp
New Scientist - Russian physicist Tatiana Makarova heated and compressed buckyballs to create an at-room-temperature magnetic sheet.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991443
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.
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The following material is reprinted *with permission Copyright (c) 1988 The Foresight Institute. All rights reserved This material is based on and builds on the case made in the book Engines of Creation by K. Eric Drexler It is reprinted...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.
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Protocol scheme https is not supported...BusinessWeek Online - excellent article on which companies are doing what in nanotechnology research and applications.
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BW Online March 25, 2002 Nano Technology But there are plenty of hopefuls. With all the hype about nanotechnology now swirling around Wall Street, you have no doubt already encountered some nanonewcomer with a catchy name like Nanogram, NanoOpto, Nanophase, NanoProducts, Nanosphere, or Technanogy. More than 300...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-wide cousins, and come in a wide variety of shapes.
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Nanotubes gain larger kin TRN 01800 Nanotubes gain larger kin By Kimberly Patch, Technology Research News Researchers 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-wide cousins,...Scientific American - Nano-copter, Nano-arm, Nano-hand, and Nano-box
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Science Technology at Scientific American.com: The New Nanofrontier Despite recent concerns over the harm nanotechnology may ultimately do, a flurry of reports also show its promise Despite recent concerns over the harm nanotechnology may ultimately do, a flurry of reports also show its promise 1 2 3 next Source: SCIENCENANO-COPTER twirls its tiny nickel propellers when fueled with ATP, the molecule that powers cells. The biomotor...Latest nanotechnology news items from around the globe.
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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.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/sci...b0717056528c0c3b5f85e772ae71d292
Surveys recent works within the field.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/sci...2e13febab8c7270d1e0e4d9acbc9e3d6
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.
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Researchers close in on single-atom switch Paul Kallender EE Times (03/06/2001 12:55 PM EST) TOKYO 151; After more than a decade of research using scanning tunnel microscopes (STMs) to precisely manipulate polymers, Japan's Institute of Physical and Chemical Research in...News about nanotechnology, collected from various sources on the web.
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Nanomolecular motor spins on a surface http topix.net/r/0LMywgL=2BvyNQ2SXRg0=2BIsfVuw4DfbFdBfA4AG7M3FnlZCJ=2BXYb3GpnaiER1R36LeJ9d3vWzhVl211j0ubne8WlrLadtQZvd2rIhQZ10M0SIitX=2BmpH0XL1327Zhoqtajgg44ZWjI4m1ddmniLN=2BT1Mgbaw7QP=2BpUJe5thZVBxiv=2BtZErGlhiFRt0bUPezbuSx University of Pennsylvania and Monell Chemical Sciences Center researchers say they've created DNA-based nanosensors that can detect odors and full story Molecules merge with silicon electronics Purdue Science Daily Wed, 26 Oct...Transistors three atoms thick could boost chip speeds sixfold in five years.
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