More details on the mesoscale mammal brain map proposal that this site first mentioned in February 2009 as the last entry in this post. Mesoscale is a few tens of nanometers and a few thousand molecules. There is a millimeter cube resolution brain map. So this would be about one million times higher resolution. The …
The wrapped carbon nanotube has defects shaved off so the surface is smooth and it is protected from further damage so that it tends to stay smooth. 1. Chemists at the University of Connecticut have found a way to increase the luminescence efficiency of single-walled carbon nanotubes by 40 fold, a discovery that could have …
Rod Adams at Atomic Insights talks about the joint venture between China and South Africa to develop pebble bed reactor technology China has started construction of the first of many 210 MWe high temperature reactors which they are targeting to complete in 2013. The first commercial-scale plant (HTR-PM) in China will make use of indirect …
Ones and zeros: By depositing a ferroelectric material on top of graphene, researchers have coaxed graphene into holding on to two different levels of electrical conductivity, which could serve as bits 1 and 0 in computer memory. Credit: Barbaros Özyilmaz, National University of Singapore MIT TEchnology Review reports that researchers at the National University of …