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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
Hark! Group Demonstrates First Heralded Single Photon Source Made from Silicon
Release Date: 06/27/2012 In an important step towards more practical quantum information processing, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology … 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
Light Touch Keeps a Grip on Delicate Nanoparticles
Release Date: 05/02/2012 Using a refined technique for trapping and manipulating nanoparticles, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) … more
NIST/UMass Study Finds Evidence Nanoparticles May Increase Plant DNA Damage
Release Date: 04/17/2012 Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) have provided the … 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
Nanopower: Avoiding Electrolyte Failure in Nanoscale Lithium Batteries
Release Date: 03/20/2012 It turns out you can be too thin—especially if you’re a nanoscale battery. Researchers from the National Institute of … 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
Two for One: Simultaneous Size and Electrochemical Measurement of Nanomaterials
Release Date: 03/06/2012 Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have done a mash-up of two very different experimental … more |
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