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SELECTED HEADLINES from nanotechweb.org News
1) * Nanotechnology news in brief *
See http://nanotechweb.org/articles/news/6/3/12?alert=1
2) * Superconductivity and magnetism in harmony in a novel nanomaterial * Magnetism and
superconductivity are often thought to be incompatible. However, physicists in the US and France
have created a nanoscale structure that contains both magnetic and superconducting properties
at the same time. The results show a hitherto undocumented interplay between ferromagnetism
and superconductivity and the researchers will be studying the phenomenon at the Swiss Light
Source, at the Paul Scherrer Institute, over the next two years.
See http://nanotechweb.org/articles/news/6/3/11?alert=1
3) * Nanoarray focuses light *
A specially designed array of nanoholes can focus light into a very small spot that is smaller than
the wavelength of light used. The result, which comes from optical physicists in the UK and
Spain, could find use in a variety of applications in nano-optics, including high-density optical
information storage, photolithography, and making a small "light pen" that can image inside cells
and other microscale objects.
See http://nanotechweb.org/articles/news/6/3/10?alert=1
4) * Nanoprobes destroy cancer *
Researchers in the US have used hot nanoprobes to slow the growth of tumours in mice with
breast cancer, without damaging surrounding healthy tissue. The technique, which was
developed by Sally Denardo and colleagues at the University of California at Davis, is non-toxic
and could be extended to humans, the scientists hope.
See http://nanotechweb.org/articles/news/6/3/9?alert=1
5) * Nanoparticles enhance photosynthesis * Metal nanoparticles can increase the efficiency of
energy produced in photosynthetic systems, according to work by researchers in the US and
Israel. The novel hybrid system, which consists of a photosynthetic reaction centre containing
chlorophyll bound to gold and silver nanocrystals, produces ten times more excited electrons
thanks to plasmon resonance and fast electron-hole separation. The enhancement mechanisms
could be used to design artificial light-harvesting systems, say the scientists.
See http://nanotechweb.org/articles/news/6/3/8?alert=1
6) * New look for solar cells *
Researchers in the US have shown that carbon nanotubes can significantly improve the efficiency
of solar cells made of titanium dioxide, a readily available and cheap chemical routinely used in
paint and sunscreen. Prashant Kamat and colleagues at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana,
anchored titanium dioxide nanoparticles on single-walled carbon nanotubes and found that the
efficiency of converting ultraviolet light into current was doubled compared to that using the
nanoparticles alone.
See http://nanotechweb.org/articles/news/6/3/7?alert=1
7) * New hydrogen-storing nanomaterial revealed * Computer simulations have identified a new
class of materials, metal-diboride nanotubes, with a large capacity for storing hydrogen. Sheng
Meng of the University of Texas, Zhenyu Zhang of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the
University of Tennessee, and Efthimios Kaxiras of Harvard University have found that titanium
boride nanotubes can reversibly store 5.5 wt% of hydrogen. More importantly, the binding
energies of the nanotubes fall in the range of 0.2 to 0.6 eV per hydrogen molecule, which means
they are promising candidates for room-temperature applications.
See http://nanotechweb.org/articles/news/6/3/6?alert=1
8) * Nanorods make "ideal" anti-reflection coatings * Physicists in the US claim to have created
the first thin optical film with a refractive index close to that of air. The film consists of an array of
obliquely-deposited nanorods, which can collectively have a refractive index as low as 1.05. The
physicists also say that several graded layers of the films can produce an optical coating that
"virtually eliminates" reflection at all wavelengths.
See http://nanotechweb.org/articles/news/6/3/5?alert=1
--------------------------------------------------------* NANOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL 2007 *
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* NANOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL HIGHLIGHTS *
1) * Carbon nanotube field-effect transistor (CNTFET) with ultra-short gate width * The scaling
down of carbon nanotube field-effect transistors (CNTFETs) and improvement of device
performance has recently been reported in Nanotechnology.
See http://nanotechweb.org/articles/journal/6/3/2/1
2) * Local stabilization of single-walled carbon nanotubes on Si(100) * Single-walled nanotubes
(SWNT) directly interfaced with a Si(100) surface have been examined using an ultrahighvacuum scanning tunnelling microscope (UHV-STM).
See http://nanotechweb.org/articles/journal/6/3/1/1
3) * Four-probe electrical transport measurements on individual metallic nanowires * Scanning
tunnelling microscopes, guided by high-resolution electron microscopes, have been used to
provide contacts to nanostructures.
See http://nanotechweb.org/articles/journal/6/1/14/1