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  • To play a bad girl on the big screen, Sienna Miller wears Oakley's new Nanowire 3.0 shades in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, now in theaters. $300 at Oakley. com.

    Fashion Forward: Blanchett is bright in Armani's Black Lace makeup 2010

  • Nanowire hooks slid out of her armor from her palms, boot soles, forearms, and knees.

    Hellgate London Covenant Mel Odom 2008

  • VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Nanowire lawns make for sheets of image sensors'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Growing a mixed "lawn" of two kinds of nanowires can make a new kind of light-sensing array that could be made in metre-scale sheets.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Nanowire lawns make for sheets of image sensors 2008

  • OpEdNews - Quicklink: Nanowire lawns make for sheets of image sensors

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Nanowire lawns make for sheets of image sensors 2008

  • ~ Nanowire battery holds 10 times the charge of existing ones -- "Stanford researchers have found a way to use silicon nanowires to reinvent the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that power laptops, iPods, video cameras, cell phones, and countless other devices."

    Speedlinking 12/18/07 William Harryman 2007

  • ~ Nanowire Manipulation Could Lead to Hand-Held Supercomputers -- Researchers have been working on nanowires and microchips so tiny that they could be used to build supercomputers that could fit in the palm of your hand.

    Speedlinking 10/22/07 William Harryman 2007

  • Print Nanowire jolts in changeable chip Science and technology reporter, BBC News Engineers have developed a computer chip made of tiny "nanowires" whose computing functions can be changed by applying small electric currents.

    BBC News - Home 2011

  • Nanowire solar cells in combination with the use of concentrated solar through mirror systems, has the potential to lead to the world's most efficient solar cell system with a cost price lower than 50 cent per Watt peak.

    Next Big Future 2010

  • Nanowire research could improve alternative energy sources

    ASU News | The State Press | Arizona State University Dana Sheaff 2010

  • Nanowire research could improve alternative energy sources

    ASU News | The State Press | Arizona State University Dana Sheaff 2010

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