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  • A new tool for molecular electronics ... Hihath, a post-doctoral researcher in Professor Nongjian Tao's research group in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Arizona State University, is first author of a recent paper in Nanotechnology in which he and Tao describe a novel conductance screening tool for molecules ("Rapid measurement of single-molecule conductance"). This device is capable of identifying signals due to a single molecule covalently bound between two electrodes, providing repeatable contacts to single molecules, and performing a statistical analysis of the results to take into account the affects of different contact geometries and molecular configurations. more.

  • Sensing in tune
    NJ Tao and colleagues have developed two different sensors based on the tiny quartz tuning forks used in wristwatches. When struck, the two prongs of the fork vibrate, moving closer together and further apart.more

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  • A team of researchers from Arizona State University and Motorola Labs, the applied research arm of Motorola Inc., has developed sensors based on carbon nanotubes, microscopically small structures that posses excellent electronic  properties. more

"The nanotubes basically are a sheet of interconnected atoms rolled into a tube," Nongjian Tao.

  • Researchers 'Wire' DNA to identify mutations
    ... team of ASU researchers led by Nongjian Tao and Peiming Zhang has developed a ... There are two things required to make a reliable measurement," said Tao.
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  • AzTE  venturing
    Dr. Nongjian Tao, a. professor of electrical. engineering in ASU's. Ira A. Fulton School of ... Tao's microfabricated tuning fork is about the size of a ...
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  • Nanotech lets scientists create "lab-on-a-chip"
    Lab-on-a-chip incorporates carbon "nanowires," shown here as a thin white line across this image, one-thousandth the width of a human hair (Image courtesy of NJ Tao). more
     

  • Materials Science Stars In Boston (Chemical & Engineering News)
    BY MINING THE INNER WORKINGS of an everyday wristwatch, Nongjian Tao, a chemistry professor at Arizona State University, has built a novel and inexpensive sensor that can detect improvised explosives and environmental pollutants and also distinguish between different brands of beer..
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  • Project uses nanotubes to sniff out heavy metals
    A team of researchers from Arizona State University and Motorola Labs has developed sensors based on carbon nanotubes, microscopically small structures that possess excellent electronic properties.
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  • SIGNAL Magazine AFCEA, a non-profit international association, is dedicated to supporting global security by providing an ethical ... to Dr. Nongjian Tao, a professor in ...more