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Connecting to neurons with semiconductor nanotubes

News: Neuroscience    March 23, 2011
“Patching into the brain” is a staple of science fiction and you hear about it fairly often in neuroscience; connecting ‘wires’ into the brain somehow seems routine. It’s not. Scientists and sometimes doctors do lots of things with reading or probing the brain with external (on the skin) sensors. They also occasionally do neural implants [...]
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Add to the nanokit: Boron nitride nanotubes

News: Nanotechnology    February 18, 2010
There are many possible nanotubes. Some, like carbon nanotubes, are made from common (and therefore inexpensive) material and relatively easy to manufacture and manipulate. Others, such as boron nitride nanotubes, have great potential but are famously difficult to manufacture – which is to say prohibitive for widespread use. The potential is clear: Boron nitride nanotubes [...]
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Breakthrough will lead to further entanglements

News: Nuclear Physics    January 12, 2010
The title of this post, “Breakthrough will lead to further entanglements” should be taken literally…and figuratively. An experiment by L. G. Herrmann in France, working with colleagues in France, Spain, and Germany, and published in Physical Review Letters has demonstrated for the first time in a solid state device the property of quantum mechanics called [...]
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A self assembling forest of peptides

News: Nanotechnology    January 6, 2010
Granted, for most people the words in a ‘self assembling forest of peptides’ may not strike a chord of recognition. Researchers at Tel Aviv University (Israel) hope recognition will come. The phrase describes a preliminary technology, proof of concept really, involving a certain kind of nanotechnology using nanotubes. Like many uses of nanotubes, there is [...]
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Nanotech ink plus a piece of paper: A novel(ty) battery

News: Energy Storage    December 9, 2009
The search for a better battery is endless. The underlying physics present limitations that are hard to surpass, but there’s seemingly no end to human ingenuity when it comes to finding new ways of storing electrical energy. Try this one: Scientists at Stanford University (California, USA) have created an ink compounded with nanotechnology materials, dipped [...]
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Lasers make nanoyarn

News: Nanotechnology    December 5, 2009
Add another ‘nano’ contraction to the list: Nanoyarn. In this case, the ‘yarn’ is composed of nanotubes created from boron nitride. (Boron nitride is what makes ‘clown white’ white.) The word yarn is suggestive of possible uses and reasonably accurate. The new nanoyarn, manufactured for the first time by the U.S. Department of Energy Jefferson [...]
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Nano-coating for better neuro-implants

News: Nanomedicine    October 11, 2009
One of the key difficulties with all bio-implants is rejection by the body. Traditionally, rejection had to be fought with relatively powerful immuno-suppressant drugs that tended to have severe side-effects. A lot of effort has gone into finding less problematic ways of reducing rejection, and this new study using nanotechnology is promising: The new brain [...]
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