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Chemistry World February 26, 2007 Lionel Milgrom	Nanotubes Sprout Fullerene Buds A new carbon-based hybrid material is set to make an impact on the microelectronics industry. Christened 'nanobuds', the material consists of single-walled carbon nanotubes with football-shaped fullerenes stuck on their outer surfaces.
Smithsonian January 2007 Cate Lineberry	Diamonds Unearthed In part two of this series, Smithsonian diamond expert Jeffrey Post, curator of the National Gem and Mineral Collection, discusses conflict diamonds, colored diamonds and synthetic gems grown in the lab
Home Toys April 2005	Alternative Big-Screen Displays A nanotube TV will give you image quality similar to CRTs, and the best image quality is still found on CRT-TVs. This article looks at the state of the industry.
Chemistry World March 7, 2010 Simon Hadlington	Solvated electron mystery solved Researchers have answered a riddle that has been puzzling scientists for decades: why is it that electrons in an aqueous environment appear to exist in two distinct states
Geotimes July 2004 Megan Sever	Next Best Friend: Cultured Diamonds Conventional thinking about diamonds may soon be changing. Diamonds -- long prized for their beauty, rarity and long generation times -- are now being created in a matter of hours in laboratories.
Chemistry World March 11, 2009 Phillip Broadwith	Building nano-scale electronic contacts An international team of researchers has discovered a way of firmly 'welding' carbon nanotubes to metal particles that could lead to new nano-scale electronic contacts.
Technology Research News December 1, 2004	Short Nanotubes Carry Big Currents Researchers have developed a simple way to fabricate carbon nanotube devices whose length is as small as ten nanometers, and have shown that electricity can pass through the nanotubes very efficiently.
Technology Research News January 26, 2005	The How It Works Files Nanotechnology: The laws of physics behave differently at very small scales. At the nanoscale, electrons travel more quickly through wires, transistors can mete out electrons one at a time, objects stick to each other, and light can bend matter.
Wired October 2001 Wil McCarthy	Ultimate Alchemy Research into artificial atoms could lead to one startling endpoint: programmable matter that changes its makeup at the flip of a switch...
Chemistry World August 8, 2013 Anthony King	Diamond encrusted nano-saw to slash silicon waste Scientists at Fraunhofer in Germany and CSIRO in Australia have teamed up to make an ultra-thin saw made of carbon nanotubes sprinkled with diamonds. Their new nano-saw promises to slice thinner silicon wafers.
IEEE Spectrum July 2011 Joel E. Moore	Topological Insulators Quantum magic can make strange but useful semiconductors that are insulators on the inside and conductors on the surface
Chemistry World March 11, 2011 David Barden	Out of the blue - a new phosphor for flat screen displays Materials chemists in China have developed a compound that they believe should improve the quality of field emission displays, bringing applications a step closer.
Technology Research News June 1, 2005	Computer Displays: Points of Light Different types of displays use different means to produce and control pixels. CRT, LCD, and plasma technologies manipulate light electronically. Another way is through micro-opto-electro-mechanical systems (MOEMS).
Technology Research News June 15, 2005	Power Sources: Fuel Cells, Solar Cells, Heat, Vibration and Fusion Summaries of how each of these power sources work to create energy.
PC Magazine April 20, 2005 John R. Quain	A Display's Best Friend Displays can never be too flat--or too bright. Scientists are using diamond nanodust to create FED (field-emitter display) displays that combine the best of CRT with the packaging of the LCD.
IEEE Spectrum July 2007 Saswato R. Das	Power Tool for Making Nanoscale Objects A physics team uses a special electron microscope to carve tiny gold, silver, and aluminum structures a few nanometers across.
Chemistry World November 13, 2014 Andy Extance	Good vibrations brighten superconductor outlook New observations from researchers in the US and Canada of how electron movement in superconductors can be boosted could be set to accelerate their development.
Technology Research News May 18, 2005 Eric Smalley	Nanotube Memory Scheme is Magnetic Researchers have designed a type of nanotube flash memory that has a potential capacity of 40 gigabits per square centimeter and 1,000 terabits per cubic centimeter.
Technology Research News October 8, 2003	Nanotubes harvest electrons Researchers from the University of Bologna and the University of Trieste in Italy, and the University of Notre Dame have found a way to alter carbon nanotubes so that they efficiently separate electrical charge. The method could lead to more efficient solar cells.
Chemistry World September 2011	Diamonds are for everything No longer valued simply for its glamour and durability, diamond is turning its hand to applications in solar power, laser design and bionic eyes.
Technology Research News April 20, 2005	Nanotube Chemical Sensor Gains Speed Researchers have made single-walled carbon nanotube chemical sensors that transmit information by measuring the charge in the nanotubes' capacitance, or ability to store electric charge.
Smithsonian December 2006 Cate Lineberry	Diamonds Unearthed In the first installment of a multi-part series, Smithsonian diamond expert Jeffrey Post, curator of the National Gem and Mineral Collection, explains how the rare crystals form.
Technology Research News September 22, 2004 Kimberly Patch	Fuel Cell Converts Waste to Power One problem with fuel cells is that they produce carbon monoxide, which can gum up the works. Researchers have found a way to use the carbon monoxide to produce more energy in a reaction that can take place at room temperature.
Chemistry World September 9, 2010 Mike Brown	Electric shock resets nanotube sensor Sensors based on single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNTs) could be 'reset' at the simple flick of a switch, say researchers in the US.
Chemistry World February 13, 2011 Simon Hadlington	First purely organic phosphor Scientists in the US have made a major advance in the development of novel light-emitting materials by designing the first purely organic phosphorescent compound.
Chemistry World December 7, 2009 Simon Hadlington	Metal atoms in carbon nanotubes caught on film An international team of researchers has filmed individual metal atoms as they move around and react within the confines of a carbon nanotube.
Chemistry World November 29, 2007 Simon Hadlington	Researchers Crack Mystery of Diamond's Conductivity US researchers have cracked one of the most baffling mysteries in materials science -- why diamond, the supreme insulator, becomes a conductor under certain conditions.
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Technology Research News May 7, 2003	Nanotube shines telecom light Researchers are continually working to expand the usefulness of carbon nanotubes. Scientists from IBM Research have found a way to make the tubes emit light, and have fashioned a nanotube transistor that emits 1.5-micron infrared light, a wavelength widely used in telecommunications.
Technology Research News November 3, 2004 Eric Smalley	Single Field Shapes Quantum Bits Researchers have recently realized that it may be possible to control the electrons in a quantum computer using a single magnetic field rather than having to produce extremely small, precisely focused magnetic fields for each electron.
Wired September 2003 Joshua Davis	The New Diamond Age Armed with new processes to manufacture inexpensive, mass-produced gems, two startups are launching an assault on the De Beers cartel. Next up: the computing industry.
Industrial Physicist Aug/Sep 2004 Eric J. Lerner	News: Plasmon microscopy A new technique allows far-field optical microscopy with resolutions well below the wavelength of light.
IEEE Spectrum May 2010 Neil Savage	The Laser at 50 It's the golden anniversary of this fundamental technology
Home Theater March 30, 2009	Next-Gen Display Gets the Ax Sony has pulled the plug on the Field Emission Display.
Chemistry World January 5, 2012 Laura Howes	Surfing the Plasmonic Wave Researchers have shown with both spatial and temporal resolution, how the electric field around a nanoparticle changes when the nanoparticle is excited by a laser.
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Chemistry World January 31, 2014 Philip Ball	X-rays set to reveal electrons' dance In principle the very intense, ultra-short x-ray pulses produced by free-electron laser sources will be capable of revealing the motions of electrons in real time as they hop between different energy states in atoms and molecules.
Technology Research News March 12, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Cheap solar power on deck Researchers from the University of California at Santa Barbara have come up with a new type of solar cell that may be much less expensive to manufacture than today's solar cells and can be improved to be nearly as efficient.
Technology Research News October 17, 2005	Data storage technologies Today's magnetic disk drives could be improved by incorporating much larger magnetoresistance or replaced by microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), near-field optics, holographic systems, or even molecules for better data storage solutions.
Technology Research News November 5, 2003	Electrons spin magnetic fields Spintronics researchers are looking for ways to control and use electron spin. Researchers from Cornell University and Yale University have brought the field a step forward by showing that a flow of electrons that all have the same spin can transfer angular momentum to magnetic material.
IEEE Spectrum August 2007 Saswato R. Das	Scheme for a Single-Photon Transistor Researchers have taken a big step toward building a really fast computer that uses light rather than electricity to perform calculations.
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The Motley Fool January 17, 2007 Jack Uldrich	Nanotech Is a Girl's Best Friend The look, quality and price of "cultured" diamonds will eventually win over consumers. When it does, that will be bad news for DeBeers and other diamond companies and good news for Apollo and Gemesis.
Technology Research News September 8, 2004	Nanotube Transistor Has Power Aiming to make electrical componets faster, researchers are working to make components from carbon nanotubes, which are rolled-up sheets of carbon atoms that can be smaller than a nanometer in diameter.
Chemistry World May 28, 2009 Phillip Broadwith	Nanotube transistors swing both ways Researchers have combined titanium dioxide nanoparticles with carbon nanotubes to make light-sensitive transistors that can be made either to switch on or off in response to UV light.
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Chemistry World July 28, 2010 Andy Extance	Molecular interference reveals reactions Scientists can now see atoms reacting on the femtosecond timescale in unprecedented detail, thanks to a laser technique developed at the University of Ottawa.
IEEE Spectrum September 2007 Joshua J. Romero	Magnetic Storage Taken to the Atomic Scale International team of scientists learns to read and write data on islands of atoms.