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Nano-based RFID tag, you’re it
January 18th, 2010
Nanodragsters hit the street
January 8th, 2010Rice University scientists roll agile hot rod out of micro-garage
Chemists are getting better at building nanomachines, but Rice researchers continue to race ahead of the pack.
The latest work in a series of molecular machines that began with 2005’s nanocar has produced what Rice University scientists James Tour and Kevin Kelly call a nanodragster for its […]
Rice professors are new AAAS fellows
December 17th, 2009Baraniuk, Bayazitoglu, Tour honored for scientific contributions
BY MIKE WILLIAMS
Rice News staff
Three high-profile Rice University professors have been named to this year’s class of fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science. For more see http://www.media.rice.edu/media/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEW&ID=13493&SnID=1331289734div.qQFUVXuJGz {height: 0pt;width: 2pt;position: absolute;overflow: […]
Tiny owls take flight
December 17th, 2009Grad students’ nano-owls began as a lark, became fitting swan song
BY MIKE WILLIAMS
Rice News staff
There are so many cool things about these images that it’s hard to know where to begin. First, they’re very tiny – about twice the width of a human hair. For more see http://www.media.rice.edu/media/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEW&ID=13498&SnID=1331289734 Cheap Fake Phillip Lim Handbag
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Tour a top-10 chemist
December 11th, 2009Rice researcher named to list of world’s most-published, most-cited
BY MIKE WILLIAMS
Rice News staff
Rice University’s James Tour is one of the world’s top 10 chemists for the past decade, according to a new ranking by Times Higher Education, a United Kingdom publication for professionals in education and research. For more see http://www.media.rice.edu/media/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEW&ID=13471&SnID=1331289734 Cheap Fake Chanel […]
Good to grow
November 13th, 2009Perseverance carried chemist Noe Alvarez from Bolivian farm to Rice doctorate
BY MIKE WILLIAMS
Rice News staff
Maybe Noe Alvarez (advised by Dr. Hauge and Prof. Tour) was destined to grow crops no matter how far he strayed from home.
Rice is not his father’s farm, but here the newly minted doctor has been raising nanotubes and planting the […]
A little nano, a lot of oil
October 27th, 2009Rice cuts deal to research graphene-infused drilling fluids
BY MIKE WILLIAMS
Rice News staff
A wall of graphene a single nanometer wide could be the difference between an oil well that merely pays for itself and one that returns great profit.
Rice University and Houston-based M-I SWACO, the world’s largest producer of drilling fluids for the petrochemical industry, have […]
Rice opens Cure for Needy on the Web
October 20th, 2009Students invite chemists everywhere to help with orphaned drugs, diseases
Suppose you had a disease for which there’s a proven cure, but nobody makes the drug. Where do you turn?
That’s a question many around the world face every day and one Rice University students hope to answer by reaching out through the Internet.
The Cure for Needy […]
Graphitic memory techniques advance at Rice
September 9th, 2009Researchers simplify fabrication of nano storage, chip-design tools
Advances by the Rice University lab of James Tour have brought graphite’s potential as a mass data storage medium a step closer to reality and created the potential for reprogrammable gate arrays that could bring about a revolution in integrated circuit logic design.
In a paper published in the […]
Graphite’s good tidings
September 4th, 2009Tour group advances fabrication of nanoscale memory, chip-design tools
BY MIKE WILLIAMS
Rice News staff
Advances by the Rice University lab of James Tour have brought graphite’s potential as a mass data storage medium a step closer to reality and created the potential for reprogrammable gate arrays that could bring about a revolution in integrated circuit logic design. […]