Research carried out by Patna University botanist, Naheed Ahmad and physicist, Seema Sharma, has yielded an environment friendly method to synthesize silver nanoparticles. The study titled "Biosynthesis of silver na...
By G.P. Thomas
21 Jun 2012
The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA)’s new literature review has reported that there is a lack of awareness about the possible risks associated with the handling of nanomaterials at the workplace and serious gaps in the method of communicating these risks to workers.
By Will Soutter
21 Jun 2012
As part of its 15th anniversary, Zyvex Technologies, a specialist in carbon nanotechnology products, will host a special session titled ‘Carbon Nanotechnology: From Chemistry to Commercialization - Why Relationships are More Important than Technology’ at Nanotech 2012, a part of TechConnect World.
Applied Nanotech has been awarded a contract worth $275,642 from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center's Construction Engineering Research Laboratory for the development of glass fiber-reinforced composite (GFRP) panels to provide enhanced protection to facilities from blast and ballistic threats, degradation, seismic events and electromagnetic interference.
By Will Soutter
21 Jun 2012
Bruker today announced the release of the first turnkey solution for Li battery electrochemical atomic force microscopy (EC-AFM) research. The new EC-AFM accessory adds a sealed electrochemical cell specifically designed for battery research and turn-key 1ppm environmental control to the industry-leading Dimension Icon® AFM platform to enable long-term in situ studies of Li battery electrodes.
RTI International has released a reliable web-based resource called the Nanomaterial Registry, which classifies and assesses the environmental and biological implications of a wide variety of nanomaterials using publically available resources.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
20 Jun 2012
Scientists from the Electronic & Magnetic Materials & Devices (EMMD) Group at the Center for Nanoscale Materials have used cryogenic ultrahigh vacuum scanning tunneling microscopy to observe extremely weak molecule-surface interactions between fullerene C60 deposited over graphene grown epitaxially on silicon carbide substrates.
By Will Soutter
20 Jun 2012
The National Science Foundation has awarded a grant worth $390,000 to Professor Luke Hanley, Head of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Chicago, to investigate coating techniques for solar panel films utilizing metal chalcogenide nanoparticles.
By Will Soutter
20 Jun 2012
NanoSteel, a provider of proprietary nano-structured steel material designs, has developed new, advanced high-strength steels (AHSS) with superior ductility and strength for use in automotive structures.
By Will Soutter
20 Jun 2012
NanoSight, leading manufacturers of unique nanoparticle characterization technology, reports on the work of Professor Hang (Hubert) Yin's group at the University of Colorado at Boulder where they apply Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis (NTA) to characterize biological nanoparticles such as microvesicles.
Leader in plasma etch and deposition processing systems, Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology, has won an order for its recently launched PlasmaPro Estrelas100 deep silicon etch tool, from the University of Toronto follo...
Nanolane presents a study, recently published in PNAS, that deals with the role of bacterium-generated slime (extracellular mucus forming films of 0.1 to 5nm in thickness) on bacterial adhesion and ability to move.
A research team from the North Carolina State University has discovered that the bulkiness of ligands, which are organic molecules utilized in the synthesis of gold nanoparticles, determines the size of the nanoparticles, which means the larger the ligands, the smaller the nanoparticles.
Researchers believe that indium gallium nitride, part of III-nitrides family, is an ideal material for photovoltaic applications because by altering indium concentration the material’s response can be tuned to collect solar energy from different wavelengths.
Although interest on graphene research is growing all across the world, the European Union is lagging in this aspect, especially in applied research.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
19 Jun 2012