Industrial manufacturing is an important part of their economy with petroleum and transportation equipment being the largest manufacturing sectors.
In AFM, a sharp tip is held at close proximity with a sample using a force-based feedback loop.
Since the passing of its General Corporation Act in 1899, it has steadily grown as a key industrial state. As of 2012, well over half of all Fortune 500 companies are incorporated in Delaware.
Advances in modern medicine are increasingly relying on electronic devices implanted inside the patient's body. Nanotechnology allows us to create materials and coatings to construct these devices that are fully biocompatible and able to integrate fully with the body's systems.
Electron beam lithography (EBL) is an important technique, which is used to design devices, systems and functional materials at the nano scale. In this miniaturization technique, large-scale products are converted into small-scale structures.
This article looks at the applications of graphene in electronics.
By Will Soutter
5 Mar 2013
Nanotechnology has the potential to both enhance and protect against chemical weapons.
By Will Soutter
4 Mar 2013
Boron nitride nanomesh is a novel inorganic two-dimensional material discovered at the University of Zurich, Switzerland in 2003.
By Will Soutter
28 Feb 2013
The separation of gas mixtures using nanoporous materials is an emerging field of research with many potential applications including fuel cells, batteries, gas sensors and gas purification.
By Will Soutter
27 Feb 2013
Xuanhe Zhao, Assistant Professor at Duke University, talks to AZoNano about the Application of Graphene in Artificial Muscles.
By Kalwinder Kaur
27 Feb 2013