Showing posts with label nano. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nano. Show all posts

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Information converted to energy

Physicists in Japan have (kind of) built a Maxwell's daemon ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell's_demon ) that (kind of) converts information into energy

http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/44385

This does not violate the second law of thermodynamics as far more energy is used in the supporting apporatus than is gained in the experiment.

Thursday, February 10, 2011

MAd SciEncE zapzap chooCh0o

Sub micrometer tapered hexagonal pillars of indium-gallium arsenide for on silicon lasers!

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20096-first-lasers-grown-directly-on-silicon-chips.html



Programable molecular motor seen to travel 100nm wide DNA base pair track using atomic force microscopy at about 0.1 nm/s!!

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110206132857.htm



Richard Feynman nanoprocessor idea becoming a reality thanks to Harvard University and MITRE Corp
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110209131824.htm