Nanotechnology researchers are developing the perfect complement to the power tie: a “power shirt” able to generate electricity to power small electronic devices for soldiers in the field, hikers and others whose physical motion could be harnessed and converted to electrical energy. The February 14 issue of the journal Nature …
Read More »Graphene Used To Create World’s Smallest Transistor
Researchers have used the world’s thinnest material to create the world’s smallest transistor, one atom thick and ten atoms wide. Reporting their peer-reviewed findings in the journal Science, Dr Kostya Novoselov and Professor Andre Geim from The School of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Manchester show that graphene …
Read More »New Power Source For Portable Electronic Devices
Microfluidic fuel cells could provide the necessary energy to provide continuous power to remote sensors, mobile phones and laptops, according to a University of Southampton student, who will graduate on July 17. Microfluidics deals with the behavior, precise control and manipulation of fluids that are geometrically constrained to a small, …
Read More »Nobel Prize in Physics 2010 for Graphene — ‘Two-Dimensional’ Material
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2010 to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, both of the University of Manchester, “for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene.” A thin flake of ordinary carbon, just one atom thick, lies behind this year’s Nobel …
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