10/05/2005

Silicon solution could lead to a truly long-life battery

New devices may provide power for decades Using some of the same manufacturing techniques that produce microchips, researchers have created a porous-silicon diode that may lead to improved betavoltaics. Such devices convert ...

Chemists adapt casting technique to make ordered nanocarbons

Technique could revolutionize nanoelectronics manufacturing Carnegie Mellon University scientists have harnessed an experimental technology to produce polymer films with long-range-ordered nanostructure and easily convert ...

Chandra X-ray observatory catches x-ray super-flares

Planetary protection: X-ray super-flares aid formation of 'solar systems' New results from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory about the Orion Nebula imply super-flares torched our young solar system. Such X-ray flares likely ...

Undercover Tactics

Soft shell, hard core: nanotubes made of cyclic peptides with a synthetic polymer coating Ever since the discovery of carbon nanotubes in the early 1990s, scientists and engineers have been fascinated by the possibilities ...

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