A Tiny Sensor Simply Made
A nanoscale biosensor that can detect minute amounts of pathogens could come to market this year.Researchers at NASA Ames Research Center have developed a nanotechnology-based biosensor that can detect...
View ArticleNanosensors for Medical Monitoring
Vista Therapeutics is developing ultra-sensitive detectors.
View ArticleNanosensors Made Easy
A trick to assemble nanowires on silicon could lead to cheap, tiny sensing devices.Treated nanowires could serve as very sensitive toxin or pathogen detectors. But while nanowire sensors have been made...
View ArticleWrapping Solar Cells around an Optical Fiber
Dye-sensitized cells get a double boost from nanowires and optical fiber.Dye-sensitized solar cells are flexible and cheap to make, but they tend to be inefficient at converting light into electricity....
View ArticleMore Energy in Batteries
Nanowire anodes could let lithium-ion batteries run twice as long.A start-up based in Menlo Park, CA, plans to sell a new type of anode for lithium-ion batteries that, the company says, will let...
View ArticleNeedling Molecules
A simple method may solve the problem of getting stuff into cells.Many experiments in biology rely on manipulating cells: adding a gene, protein, or other molecule, for instance, to study its effects...
View ArticleElectric Skin that Rivals the Real Thing
Flexible sensors could give prosthetics and robots a more sensitive sense of touch.The tactile sensitivity of human skin is hard to re-create, especially over large, flexible surfaces. But two...
View ArticleDoubling Lithium-Ion Battery Storage
Portable electronics could run 40 percent longer using a new type of anode.Battery startup Amprius says it has developed batteries capable of storing twice as much energy as anything on the market...
View ArticleNanogenerator Powers Up
A device containing piezoelectric nanowires can now scavenge enough energy to power small electronic devices.Devices that harvest wasted mechanical energy could make many new advances...
View ArticlePositioning Bits in Nanowire Memory
IBM’s ultra-dense racetrack memory is closer to commercialization.New research brings closer a new type of computer memory that would combine the capacity of a magnetic hard disk with the speed, size,...
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