Tribological properties associated with wear, friction and lubrication are important to the implementation of many biomedical applications. Medicine now allows for the replacement of biological tissue with artificial devices.
In a collaborative effort between researchers from the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) and Seoul National University’s School of Chemical and Biological Engineering, a unique “graphene” ball has been designed to improve charging speeds by five-fold and increase battery capacity by an impressive 45%.
By Benedette Cuffari
18 Dec 2017
As construction and industry grow, it is expected that the application of antimicrobial, antifungal and antibacterial biocides will continue to rise as well.
By Benedette Cuffari
8 Dec 2017
Graphene is a material formed from carbon in a honeycomb structure with one-atom thickness. It provides distinctive optical, thermal, electronic and mechanical properties. The material can be manufactured into sheets, flakes and graphene oxide to provide a variety of applications to the field of biomedicine.
Nanocomputing is a term used for the representation and manipulation of data by computers smaller than a microcomputer. Current devices are already utilizing transistors with channels below 100 nanometers in length.
There are many other 2D materials than graphene that exhibit a hexagonal array and are uni-atomic. A team of researchers from Brazil and Germany have used theoretical ab-initio methods to investigate how other group IV 2D materials, the so-called X-enes, interact when deposited onto a graphene-silicon carbide substrate.
By Liam Critchley
28 Nov 2017
Graphene is constantly being employed into various battery and energy storage technologies and this has become one of the largest growing areas of graphene research commercially.
By Liam Critchley
24 Nov 2017
Nanotechnology is currently being applied to innovative methods of medical imaging. The development of imaging at the nanoscale has the ability to enhance the field of medicine by providing more detailed images of cellular processes.
Nanorobotics describes the technology of producing machines or robots at the nanoscale. 'Nanobot' is an informal term to refer to engineered nano machines. Though currently hypothetical, nanorobots will advance many fields through the manipulation of nano-sized objects.
Muography hit the headlines recently as the technique used by a team of researchers to discover that the Great Pyramid of Giza has an extra two chambers than originally thought.
By Liam Critchley
20 Nov 2017