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Microreactor speeds nanotech particle production by 500 times

CORVALLIS, Ore. — Engineers at Oregon State University have discovered a new method to speed the production rate of nanoparticles by 500 times, an advance that could play an important role in making nanotechnology products more commercially practi…

Researchers create new class of piezoelectric logic devices using zinc oxide nanowires

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new class of electronic logic device in which current is switched by an electric field generated by the application of mechanical strain to zinc oxide nanowires.
The devices, …