ATLANTA, July 19 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists are developing a nanogenerator -- a tiny device that produces electricity from flowing blood, pulsating blood vessels, or a beating heart.

ATLANTA, March 8 (UPI) -- U.S. nanoengineers have created a new class of electronic components by bending zinc oxide nanowires, creating "nano-piezotronics."

NEW YORK, June 9 (UPI) -- An international team of university and industry scientists has discovered a way to improve nanoparticles used to make advanced circuits. These findings could h

NEW YORK, May 30 (UPI) -- Transistors made with semiconductor wires just nanometers or billionths of a meter wide can exceed the performance of current state-of-the-art silicon transistors by three or four times, experts tell UPI's Nano World.

NEW YORK, April 14 (UPI) -- Generators fabricated from wires only nanometers or billionths of a meter wide can convert vibrations to electricity, experts told UPI's Nano World.

ATLANTA, April 13 (UPI) -- Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology say they have developed nanowires that generate electricity when they vibrate.

ATLANTA, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- Georgia Institute of Technology researchers say they've taken a major step toward high-volume production of new nanometer-scale structures.

NEW YORK, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- Arrays of silicon nanowires with biomolecular coatings can spot molecular traces of cancer far more accurately, quickly and specifically than technology current