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'White graphene' to the rescue
(03 Aug 2010)
Hexagonal boron nitride sheets may help graphene supplant silicon
What researchers might call "white graphene" may be the perfect sidekick for the real thing as a new era unfolds in nanoscale electronics.But single-atom-thick layers of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN), the material under intense study at Rice ...
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Graphene oxide gets green
(27 Jul 2010)
Rice researchers show environmentally friendly ways to make it in bulk, break it down
"We can make you and we can break you." If Rice University scientists wrote country songs, their ode to graphene oxide would start something like that. But this song wouldn't break anybody's heart.A new paper from the lab of Rice chemist James Tour ...
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Nanotubes pass acid test
(19 Jul 2010)
Rice researchers' method untangles long tubes, clears hurdle toward armchair quantum wire
Rice University scientists have found the "ultimate" solvent for all kinds of carbon nanotubes (CNTs), a breakthrough that brings the creation of a highly conductive quantum nanowire ever closer.Nanotubes have the frustrating habit of bundling, ...
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Magnets trump metallics
(12 Jul 2010)
Magnetic fields can block conductivity of carbon nanotubes
Metallic carbon nanotubes show great promise for applications from microelectronics to power lines because of their ballistic transmission of electrons. But who knew magnets could stop those electrons in their tracks?Rice physicist Junichiro Kono ...
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Liquid method: pure graphene production
(02 Jun 2010)
Research could yield novel composites, touch-screen displays
In a development that could lead to novel carbon composites and touch-screen displays, researchers from Rice University and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology unveiled a new method for producing bulk quantities of one-atom-thick sheets of ...
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Optical Legos: Building nanoshell structures
(01 Jun 2010)
Self-assembly method yields materials with unique optical properties
Scientists from four U.S. universities have created a way to use Rice University's light-activated nanoshells as building blocks for 2-D and 3-D structures that could find use in chemical sensors, nanolasers and bizarre light-absorbing ...
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Synthetic enzymes could help ID proteins
(03 May 2010)
'Smart' catalysts programmed to recognize specific molecular shape
Using a rare metal that's not utilized by nature, Rice University chemists have created a synthetic enzyme that could help unlock the identities of thousands of difficult-to-study proteins, including many that play key roles in cancer and other ...
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Nano-infused filters prove effective
(29 Apr 2010)
Rice scientists build better catalyst with nanotube membranes
Rice University researchers and their colleagues in Finland and Hungary have found a way to make carbon nanotube membranes that could find wide application as extra-fine air filters and as scaffolds for catalysts that speed chemical reactions.The ...
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Nano imagining takes turn for the better
(08 Feb 2010)
Photothermal technique provides new way to track nanoparticles
Stephan Link wants to understand how nanomaterials align, and his lab's latest work is a step in the right direction.Link's Rice University group has found a way to use gold nanorods as orientation sensors by combining their plasmonic properties ...
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'Nanodragster' races toward the future of molecular machines
(13 Jan 2010)
Scientists in Texas are reporting the development of a "nanodragster" that may speed the course toward development of a new generation of futuristic molecular machines. The vehicle - only 1/50,000th the width of a human hair - resembles a hot-rod in ...
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