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Nanotechnology gearing up to save the environment

Shivangi Keprate — Sat, 23 May 2009 13:12:23 +0000

Nanotechnology, with its vast potential is revolutionizing our world. As the name suggests, it involves working with structures of the size as small as 1 to 100 nanometers. It includes imaging, modeling and maneuvering of matter at this length...

Roll Kinetic Charger to juice up your batteries with fun

Priyanka Khanghta — Tue, 05 May 2009 13:25:19 +0000

Image credit: Coroflot For centuries, the Chinese have been using traditional Baoding balls as an exercising tool to recover from injury or remain fit. Rubbing these two balls in one’s hand stimulates acupuncture points, which help to loosen...

Tiny nanogenerator helps you power small electronics on the move

Manish Kanaujia — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:37:47 +0000

Earlier we introduced you special light-emitting nanofibers in the size of viruses and tiny bacteria that would surely light up the nano world. Now, another breakthrough in nanoscience discovered by Professor Zhong Lin Wang is a tiny device that...

Nanowires can bend and boost solar efficiency

Deepa — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:21:20 +0000

Solar panels are not new to the world of green technology. But the eco-techie bar is raised with stuff like bendable solar cells. Highly bendable “dye-sensitized” solar cells ((DSCCs) made from zinc oxide nanowire photoelectrodes on...

Nanotechnology helps better the color and cost of solar cells

Anupam — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 05:33:56 +0000

Researchers at the Ohio State have developed a new technique that not only reduces the cost of solar cells to a quarter but also makes them beautiful. These solar cells come in pink and are called Dye Sensitive Solar Cells of DSSCs. These...

Researchers develops transparent transistors via nanowires

Manish Kanaujia — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 12:21:18 +0000

Researchers from all over the world have always envisioned a day when windscreens will have transparent maps; eyeglasses will come integrated with TVs and many similar applications. For all these the main requirement is the development of a...

Nanowires can help monitor blood pressure

Irani — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 05:35:30 +0000

One day, changes in body blood pressure can be monitored using ‘nanowires!’ A new class of components have been created using the piezoelectric effect in semi-conducting zinc oxide nanowires. These nanowires can detect forces as small...

Cheaper LEDs developed by synthesizing ZnO nanostructures

Irani — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 15:35:31 +0000

Newer technologies, heading to come up with more and more energy-efficient lights, seem to going beyond or outdate the widely used gallium nitride LEDs! The UC San Diego engineers have synthesized a long-sought semi-conducting material capable...

Nanowires to protect soldiers in case of a Biological war

Anupam — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 00:38:14 +0000

Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Jeffrey Tok and his team are developing a technology that would allow soldiers to use the right kind of anti-pathogen protection at just the right time. The system uses microscopic...

DNA to revolutionise battery manufacturing

Zodingliani — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 02:37:59 +0000

A research team led Angela Belcher, a biological engineer at MIT discovered an innovative method to transform battery manufacturing. By introducing scraps of single-stranded DNA into the tube-shaped viruses specific molecules were regenerated on...