3D bioprinter uses carbon nanotube enhanced cellulose

Researchers have managed to print and dry three-dimensional objects made entirely by cellulose for the first time with the help of a 3D-bioprinter. They also added carbon nanotubes to create electrically conductive material.

Emergence of 'Devil's staircase'

Anomalous spin ordering revealed by brilliant synchrotron soft X-rays.

To give cancer a deadly fever, researchers explore better nanoparticle design

Heat may be the key to killing certain types of cancer, and new research has yielded unexpected results that should help optimize the design of magnetic nanoparticles that can be used to deliver heat directly to cancerous tumors.

Successors to FinFET for 7nm and beyond to be presented

At this week's VLSI 2015 Symposium in Kyoto, imec reported new results on nanowire FETs and quantum-well FinFETs towards post-FinFET multi-gate device solutions.

Renewable energy from evaporating water (w/video)

Scientists report the development of two novel devices that derive power directly from evaporation - a floating, piston-driven engine that generates electricity causing a light to flash, and a rotary engine that drives a miniature car.

Nanoparticles naturally fall into left- and right-handed versions

Researchers published first experimental results showing that ordinary nanocrystals possess intrinsic chirality and can be produced under normal conditions as a half-and-half mixture of mirror images of each other.

Graphene heat-transfer riddle unraveled

Researchers have solved the long-standing conundrum of how the boundary between grains of graphene affects heat conductivity in thin films of the miracle substance - bringing developers a step closer to being able to engineer films at a scale useful for cooling microelectronic devices and hundreds of other nano-tech applications.