Category Archives: Manufacturing

First large-scale graphene fabrication | Science Daily

Posted on May 24, 2015 by wbaltzley

One of the barriers to using graphene at a commercial scale could be overcome using a method demonstrated by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Graphene, a material stronger and stiffer than carbon fiber, has enormous … Continue reading →

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Nano-Architecture | MIT Technology Review

Posted on February 24, 2015 by wbaltzley

To visit the lab of Caltech materials ­scientist Julia Greer is to enter a realm where the ordinary rules of physical stuff don’t seem to apply. Greer designs and builds nanomaterials that behave in ways surprising to those of us … Continue reading →

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3-D Transistors Made with Molecular Self-Assembly | MIT Technology Review

Posted on February 24, 2015 by wbaltzley

A new way of building computer chips is taking shape that involves synthesizing molecules so that they automatically assemble into complex structures—which then serve as templates for etching nanoscale circuitry into silicon. The approach could let the computer industry continue … Continue reading →

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Nano-Manufacturing Makes Steel 10 Times Stronger | MIT Technology Review

Posted on February 24, 2015 by wbaltzley

An inexpensive new process can increase the strength of metals such as steel by as much as 10 times, and make them much more resistant to corrosion. If the modified metals pass field testing, the new process could go on … Continue reading →

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Scientists Learn to Control “Electron Gas” | Kurzweil AI

Posted on March 5, 2014 by wbaltzley

[+]Vienna University of Technology researchers have created a two-dimensional “electron gas” in strontium titanate. In a thin layer formed by the gas just below the surface, electrons can move freely and occupy different quantum states. The new material represents a … Continue reading →

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Google Project Tango: 3D Scanning in a Cell Phone | Smart Planet

Posted on February 21, 2014 by wbaltzley

Google has taken the lid off Project Tango, research designed to make our mobile devices function in 3D. The tech giant’s Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) team has produced a smartphone prototype which utilizes a vision processor chip capable of … Continue reading →

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Designing amazingly strong materials from the bottom up | Kurzweil AI

Posted on September 12, 2013 by wbaltzley

Why do the lightweight skeletons of organisms such as sea sponges display a strength that far exceeds that of man-made products constructed from similar materials? Scientists have long suspected that the difference has to do with the hierarchical architecture of … Continue reading →

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Self-Assembling Nano-Antennas Soak Up The Sun | Science Daily

Posted on August 22, 2013 by wbaltzley

In diagrams it looks like a confection of self-curling ribbon with bits of bling hung off the ribbon here and there. In fact it is a carefully designed ring of proteins with attached pigments that self-assembles into a structure that … Continue reading →

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Roll To Roll Printing To Make Wall-Sized Carbon Nanotube Arrays | MIT Technology Review

Posted on August 22, 2013 by wbaltzley

Adapting conventional printing technology, researchers have developed a way to rapidly and inexpensively make uniform arrays of high-performing transistors out of carbon nanotubes on flexible plastic sheets. The process could eventually lead to a tool for manufacturing large-area, low-power sensor … Continue reading →

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Penn State Develops Self-Assembling Flexible Solar Cells | Penn State

Posted on August 21, 2013 by wbaltzley
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