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CNST Releases the Summer 2012 Edition of The CNST News
Release Date: 08/08/2012 The NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) is pleased to announce the release of the summer 2012 edition of The CNST News. This … more
Researchers Track Nanoparticle Dynamics in Three Dimensions
Release Date: 08/01/2012 Researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology have used three-dimensional single-particle tracking to measure the dynamic … more
Researchers Demonstrate and Explain Surface Conduction in a Topological Insulator
Release Date: 07/11/2012 Researchers at the University of Maryland and the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology have for the first time experimentally … more
'Tuning' Graphene Drums Might Turn Conductors to Semiconductors
Release Date: 06/27/2012 Tightening or relaxing the tension on a drumhead will change the way the drum sounds. The same goes for drumheads made from graphene, only instead … more
Not-So-Precious: Stripping Gold From AFM Probes Allows Better Measurement of Picoscale Forces
Release Date: 06/27/2012 Gold is not necessarily precious—at least not as a coating on atomic force microscope (AFM) probes. Artist's conception of … more
Shaffique Adam Receives Singapore National Research Foundation Fellowship
Release Date: 06/27/2012 In July, Shaffique Adam will join the inaugural faculty of Yale-NUS College as an Assistant Professor of Science, with a joint appointment in the … more
Graphene Drumheads Tuned to Make Quantum Dots
Release Date: 06/21/2012 NIST researchers showed that straining graphene membrane creates pseudomagnetic fields that confines the graphene's electrons and creates … more
CNST Releases the Spring 2012 Edition of The CNST News
Release Date: 05/25/2012 The NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) is pleased to announce the release of the spring 2012 edition of The CNST News. This … more
Spin Polarized Supercurrents Optimized with a Simple Flip
Release Date: 05/11/2012 Using SEMPA, the magnetic structures in the top and bottom layers of a cobalt-ruthenium-cobalt sandwich contained within a superconducting device … more
In-Situ Observations Reveal How Nanoparticle Catalysts Lower Operating Temperatures in Fuel Cells
Release Date: 04/10/2012 Researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology and Arizona State University have used environmental transmission electron … more
Nanoscale Magnetic Media Diagnostics by Rippling Spin Waves
Release Date: 04/03/2012 Memory devices based on magnetism are one of the core technologies of the computing industry, and engineers are working to develop new forms of … more
Researchers Validate Simplified Lateral Force Calibration Technique for Atomic Force Microscopy
Release Date: 03/28/2012 In the diamagnetic lateral force calibration method, an AFM cantilever (shown here is a more
'Nanoslinky': A Novel Nanofluidic Technology for DNA Manipulation and Measurement
Release Date: 03/20/2012 Remember Slinky®, the coiled metal spring that “walks” down stairs with just a push, momentum and gravity? Researchers at … more
Combining Centuries-Old Mathematical Theorems Provides an Efficient Approach for Characterizing the Shape of Nanoparticles
Release Date: 03/14/2012 Gregg Gallatin, a researcher at the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology , has shown that combining a nineteenth century flux theorem … more
The Shape of Things to Come: NIST Probes the Promise of Nanomanufacturing Using DNA Origami
Release Date: 03/06/2012 In recent years, scientists have begun to harness DNA’s powerful molecular machinery to build artificial structures at the nanoscale … more |
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