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Crystalline materials enable high-speed electronic function in optical fibers

Scientists at the University of Southampton, in collaboration with Penn State University have, for the first time, embedded the high level of performance normally associated with chip-based ...

Sun 5 Feb 12 from PhysOrg

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Graphene transistor goes vertical

New device can be switched on and off

Fri 3 Feb 12 from Nanotechweb

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Electronic salmon sandwich is paving the way towards cost-effective DNA memory device

In order to find a method for more cost-effective data storage, a group of researchers from the DFG-Center for Functional Nanostructures (CFN) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) ...

Wed 1 Feb 12 from PhysOrg

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Pacemakers of tomorrow could be powered by the beating of the heart

A heart-powered pacemaker may sound counter-intuitive, but in essence this is precisely what aerospace engineers from the University of Michigan are proposing. The engineers have come up with ...

Fri 3 Feb 12 from Gizmag

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Scientists X-ray key enzyme of common pathogen crystallized in living cells

An international team of scientists has for the first time crystallised a key enzyme of the pathogen for African sleeping sickness in a living cell and investigated it with the world’s ...

Mon 30 Jan 12 from PhysOrg

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ESC-Kongress 2012 - Mitteilung f?ressevertreter

25/08/2012 — 29/08/2012,

Fri 3 Feb 12 from AlphaGalileo

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Graphene could be a perfect absorber of light

Periodic patterning and doping is the key

Thu 26 Jan 12 from Nanotechweb

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Scientists shed light on magnetic mystery of graphite

The physical property of magnetism has historically been associated with metals such as iron, nickel and cobalt; however, graphite – an organic mineral made up of stacks of individual carbon ...

Thu 26 Jan 12 from PhysOrg

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British team builds model showing metamaterials could be used to create gecko toe like adhesion

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have long been enamored by the gecko’s gravity defying ability to cling to walls and to let go at will, allowing it to walk around sideways, as have Spiderman ...

Fri 27 Jan 12 from PhysOrg

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Research team creates photoelectrowetting circuit

(PhysOrg.com) -- Working together, Matthieu Gaudet and Steve Arscott from the University of Lille in France have built a circuit using a phenomenon known as photoelectrowetting, which allows ...

Fri 20 Jan 12 from PhysOrg

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