News and Highlights

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CNM News

• New Argonne supercomputer makes "Top 500" list (November 2007)
• CNM Fully Operational (October 2007)
• U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) Visits the Center for Nanoscale Materials (September 2007)
• New scientists join Argonne's Center for Nanoscale Materials (September 2007)
• Eric Isaacs Interview on Science and Society (August 2007)
• US-France Nanoscience Workshop (June 2007)
• DOE Nanoscale Centers Meet at NSTI 2007 (May 2007)
• Successful Fourth Annual CNM Users Meeting (May 2007)
• Argonne dedicates new Center for Nanoscale Materials (September 2006)

CNM Research Highlights

• Graphene sheet observed with optical method (March 2008)
• Research Advances using Ultrananocrystalline Diamond (January 2008)
• CNM Research Featured in Journal (November 2007)
• Heavier hydrogen on the atomic scale reduces friction (November 2007)
• High-performance, flexible nanotechnology hydrogen sensors (Nanowerk Spotlight, October 11, 2007)
• CNM Research Highlighted in Scientific Journal (September 2007)
• Researchers improve ability to write and store information on electronic devices (September 2007)
• Palladium Nanoparticle Electrodeposition on Nanotubes Results in New Flexible Hydrogen Sensors (August 2007)
• Nano-boric acid makes motor oil more slippery (August 2007)
• Nanotechnology helps scientists make bendy sensors for hydrogen vehicles (July 2007)
• Tightly Packed Molecules Lend Unexpected Strength to Nanothin Sheet of Material (July 2007)
• Getting the ‘Hole’ Picture Up Close (photonics.com, June 2007)
• X-ray holograms reveal secret magnetism (May 2007)
• Magnetic 'Handedness' Could Lead to Better Magnetic Storage Devices (May 2007)
• Flexible Electronics Could Find Applications as Sensors, Artificial Muscles (May 2007)
• Liquid Alloy Shows Solid-Like Crystal Structure at Surface (July 2006)
• Carbon Nanotube Building Blocks Open up Possibilities for Advanced Electronics (June 2006)
• New environmental chamber aids nano-studies of metal oxides (April 2006)
• New nano-finding points to new computer technologies based on magnetic spin (January 2006)
• Gold's glitter not the same at the nanoscale (January 2006)
• Mixed Metals not so Mixed Up at the Nano Level (November 2005)
• Diamond Nanotube Technology Promises New Electronics Products (September 2005)
• Argonne researchers create new diamond-nanotube composite material (August 2005)
• Nanotube Water Doesn't Freeze — Even at Hundreds of Degrees Below Zero (May 2005)
• Energy Secretary and Illinois Governor Dedicate National Nano Research Facility (May 2005)
• The nano-revolution continues at Argonne (May 2005)
• First Beam for the Nanoprobe Beamline (March 2005)
• New materials provide insight into radioactivity in the environment, self-assembling nanostructures (February 2005)
• Nanofluids Could Make Cool Work of Hot Truck Engines (February 2005)
• Nanomaterials break out of laboratory into marketplace (October 2004)
• ‘Flying' nanotubes are strong and hard (July 2004)
• Nanoparticles, super-absorbent gel clean radioactivity from porous structures (July 2004)
• Studies on electric polarization open potential for tinier devices (July 2004)
• Argonne, U of Wisconsin engineers visualize electric memory as it fades (June 2004)
• Electricity controls nanocrystal shape (March 2004)
• Researchers explore confinement of light with metal nanoparticles (December 2003)
• Nanoparticles eyed as biohazard treatment (November 2003)
• Electric field provides 'handle' to manipulate tiny particles (March 2003)
• Understanding Nanocrystal Shapes through Simulation
• Photoprocesses in Hybrid Nanostructures
• Nucleation and Annihilation of Magnetic Vortices in Sub-Micron Permalloy Dots
• Let a Virus Do All the Work
• Light Scattering by Nanoparticles
• Designer Affinity Reagents
• Using Biomolecules to Guide Assembly of Inorganic Nanostructures
• Atomic Scale Modeling and Simulation of Silicon Anisotropic Etching
• Novel Concepts for High-Throughput Electron Lithography

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