12/25/2007 The Library of Congress in Your Wrist Watch? Nanolasers being developed in Sakhrat Khizroev’s lab at the University of California, Riverside, things are about to get a lot smaller, they point to a future where a 10-terabit hard drive is only one-inch square ... More 12/6/2007 New IBM Research Technology Could Enable Today's Massive Supercomputers to Be Tomorrow's Tiny Computer Chips Advancement in Using Light Instead of Wires for Building Supercomputers-on-a-Chip ... More 11/7/2007 A Giant Step toward Infinitesimal Machinery
What are the ultimate limits to miniaturization? How small can machinery--with internal workings that move, turn, and vibrate--be produced? What is the smallest scale on which computers can be built? With uncanny and characteristic insight, these are questions that the legendary Caltech physicist Richard Feynman asked himself in the period leading up to a famous 1959 lecture, the first on a topic now called nanotechnology ... More 10/22/2007 Nanowire generates its own electricity
Microscopic wire has photovoltaic properties ... More |
A vision of the future in which wireless power transfer is feasible, cell phones, household robots, mp3 players, laptop computers, and other portable electronics capable of charging themselves without ever being plugged in, and Some of these devices might not even need their bulky batteries to operate. 10/23/2007 Platinum-Rich Shell, Platinum-Poor Core
New class of catalyst for fuel cells beats pure platinum by a mile ... More 10/17/2007 Nanosys and Sharp Expand Collaboration on Nanotechnology-Enabled Fuel Cells
Under the terms of the agreement, Sharp will fund the joint development efforts at Nanosys and Sharp towards developing high performance fuel cells for use in portable consumer electronics such as laptop computers, cell phones, and multimedia devices. ... More
Pennsylvania NanoMaterials Commercialization Center Announces Funding for Fuel Cell Company. Center grants funding to HydroGen LLC for winning proposals involving fuel cell electrodes ... More |