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Highlight: Quasi-Crystalline Order at Nanoscale (PhysOrg)
Nanoparticles have a strong tendency to form periodic structures. Mixing and matching of two different types of nanoparticles allows the formation of binary nanoparticle superlattices isostructural to ionic or intermetallic compounds. In addition to periodic superlattices, binary mixtures of nearly spherical nanoparticles could lead to the growth of quasi-crystals. (read on…) Related items Look at Mie! (EurekAlert!) Nanosys... »
New Nanotechnology Association Established to Address 21st Century Natural Resource and Energy Security Challenges (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Senior policymakers and experts in the defense and cleantech industries got a boost today with the announced formation of the NanoAssociation for Natural Resources and Energy Security . (more…) Related items Bloomberg New Energy Finance Names New Energy Pioneers (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) Ener1 Reports Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2009 Results (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) What makes... »
Better Control Of Carbon Nanotube ‘Growth’ Promising For Future Electronics (redOrbit)
Image Caption: Researchers have learned how to more fully control the formation of carbon nanotubes so that they have either metallic or semiconducting properties. The findings could help overcome a major obstacle in efforts to use the tiny structures to create a new class of electronics that would be faster and smaller than conventional... »
