Research News 2007
WATER FLOWS LIKE MOLASSES ON THE NANOSCALE
A Georgia Tech research team has discovered that water exhibits very different properties when it is confined to channels less than two nanometers wide – behaving much like a viscous fluid with a viscosity approaching that of molasses. (more) |
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FLUID DYNAMICS WORKS ON NANOSCALE IN REAL WORLD
In 2000, Georgia Tech researchers showed that fluid dynamics theory could be modified to work on the nanoscale, albeit in a vacuum. Now, seven years later they've shown that it can be modified to work in the real world, too – that is, outside of a vacuum. (more) |
SCIENTISTS FIND WHY CONDUCTANCE OF NANOWIRES VARY
A Georgia Tech physics group has discovered how and why the electrical conductance of metal nanowires changes as their length varies. In a collaborative investigation performed by an experimental team and a theoretical physics team, the group discovered that measured fluctuations in (more) |
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Georgia Tech Physicist Pens Nanocatalysis Book
A Georgia Tech researcher and his colleague have written the first book on nanocatalysis. Appropriately titled “Nanocatalysis,” the book explores the properties of catalysts, mainly gold, when they are reduced in size to the nanometer scale. At this size, gold, which is notorious for being inert in its bulk form, becomes highly reactive and able to assist in promoting chemical reactions.
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PHYSICISTS DISCOVER STRUCTURES OF GOLD NANOCLUSTERS
Using different experimental techniques, two separate and independent research groups in collaboration with a team from the Center for Computational Materials Science (CCMS) at the Georgia Institute of Technology, have unveiled the size-dependent evolution of structural and electronic structural motifs of gold nanoclusters ranging in size from 11 to 24 atoms. (more) |
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STUDY RANKS GEORGIA TECH HIGHLY IN NANOTECHNOLOGY
The Georgia Institute of Technology ranks third in the nation for the number of nanotechnology researchers that are “highly cited” in peer-reviewed publications, and in the top ten for the number of first authors publishing in such journals. Overall, Georgia Tech is among the nation’s top 25 institutions for National Science Foundation (NSF) nanotechnology... (more) |
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