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Nanotech Roundup:Platform for Supramolecular Nanoassembly, 3d 100nanometer cubes, nanoelectromechanical single-atom switch

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1. Platform for Controlled Supramolecular Nanoassembly We here present a two-dimensional (2D) micro/nano-fluidic technique where reactant-doped liquid−crystal films spread and mix on micro- and nanopatterned substrates. Surface-supported phospholipid monolayers are individually doped with complementary DNA molecules which hybridize when these lipid films mix. Using lipid films to convey reactants reduces the dimensionality of traditional 3D …

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Usain Bolt Runs 100 Meters in 9.58 Second, How Fast Could an Augmented Human Run ?

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Usain Bolt set a new world record. The 22-year-old Jamaican recorded a time of 9.58 seconds to shave 0.11 off the mark he set last year when winning gold at the Beijing Olympics. American Tyson Gay was second in a time of 9.71, with Jamaica’s Asafa Powell claiming bronze in 9.84. UPDATE: Usain Bolt has …

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CNano Technology has EPA Approval to Sell Carbon Nanotubes from 500 Ton/Year Plant

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Applications which can use the large new supply of carbon nanotubes [click on the picture to the left for a larger image]. CNano Technology Limited (CNano) announced that it has received regulatory approval from the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to sell multi-wall carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) through its subsidiary in the USA. This approval …

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Air Taxi Prototype Crashed

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Disaster scene: Fire and rescue personnel checking the wreckage of the Jetpod which crashed during the test flight in Taiping yesterday A prototype of the ‘flying taxi’ belonging to British-based Avcen Ltd crashed and burst into flames during a test flight from Tekah airstrip, killing its inventor Michael Robert Dacre. Avcen Limited Malaysia is based …

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World Smallest Laser : 44 Nanometer Diameter Spaser

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Nanophotonics may usher in a host of radical advances, including powerful “hyperlenses” resulting in sensors and microscopes 10 times more powerful than today’s and able to see objects as small as DNA; computers and consumer electronics that use light instead of electronic signals to process information; and more efficient solar collectors. Spaser stands for surface …

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Magnetic Silicon Fullerene and London Nanospintronic Projects

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1. Magnetic Silicon Fullerene A magnetic metal-encapsulating silicon fullerene, Eu@Si20, has been predicted by density functional theory to be by far the most stable fullerene-like silicon structure. The Eu@Si20 structure is a regular dodecahedron with Ih symmetry in which the europium atom occupies the center site. The calculated results show that the europium 10 atom …

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Understanding Neutron and Proton Behavior in the C12 Nucleus

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From a research paper: “Probing Cold Dense Nuclear Matter”: The protons and neutrons in a nucleus can form strongly correlated nucleon pairs. Scattering experiments, where a proton is knocked-out of the nucleus with high momentum transfer and high missing momentum, show that in 12C the neutron-proton pairs are nearly twenty times as prevalent as proton-proton …

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Carbon nanotubes without metal catalyst : Jets can be 90% composite and not just 40%

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Nanoparticulate zirconia (ZrO2) catalyzes both growth of single-wall and multiwall carbon nanotubes (CNTs) by thermal chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and graphitization of solid amorphous carbon UPDATE: Prior non metal catalyst work (H/T to reader at cheaptubes): In a process patented by NASA Goddard is the ability to produce bundles of CNTs without using a metal …

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Mr Fusion Scenario : What if there is cheap and abundant Nuclear Fusion Power ?

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What if Nuclear Fusion Power became cheap and abundant ? Note: several technologies that could work out for providing commercial nuclear fusion would not lead to cheap and abundant nuclear fusion. They would have power that is about the same price as current 3rd generation nuclear fission. The regular ITER project is such a system. …

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Some of the Healthcare Discussion Includes Fixing Aging and Disease

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Wired Magazine has an article “To Pay for Health Care, Treat Aging” As politicians try to reform a health care system that could swallow one-fifth of the nation’s economic output by 2020, they should consider making a small bet with a potentially huge payoff: research that could slow the process of aging In papers published …

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Open source Database Breakthrough: 10-80 times faster

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The figure below shows the architecture of the new VectorWise engine. Theleft part shows the system architecture (“X100” execution engine andColumnBM buffer manager) and how it maps on the computer resources(CPU cache, RAM and disk). The right part shows a query in action, havingbeen decomposed into so-called relational operators (Aggregate, Project,Select and Scan) and execution …

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