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New Project Turns Waste Plastics into Highly Valuable Carbon Nanotubes

The Welsh government is backing a cutting-edge science project at Swansea University that changes waste plastics into highly valuable compounds for the energy industries.

23 Nov 2020

Graphene Helps Probe Behavior of Strontium Titanium Oxide for Memristor Research

Researchers across the globe have been studying new materials to develop neuromorphic computers, with a design based on the human brain.

23 Nov 2020

New Method Predicts Forces Between Peculiarly Shaped Nanoparticles

At Duke University, materials scientists have developed a simple technique for computing the attractive forces that allow nanoparticles to assemble on their own into bigger structures.

20 Nov 2020

PI’s XYZ Piezo-Driven Nanopositioner Enables BPL Desktop Nanoprinter

Based on a flexure-guided design, PI’s P-611 piezo nanopositioning stage combines high precision and dynamics in a compact package. Also known as the NanoCube®, this closed-loop stage delivers 120 µm travel range in 3 degrees of freedom – ideal applications such as photonics alignment and Beam Pen Lithography (BPL).

From Physik Instrumente (PI) GmbH & Co KG 20 Nov 2020

New DNA-Based Nanogel for Targeted Delivery of Chemotherapeutics

Current chemotherapy regimens slow cancer progression and save lives, but these powerful drugs affect both healthy and cancerous cells.

19 Nov 2020

New Microscopy Approach to Observe Dynamics of Small-Molecule Drugs in Cells

The quality of life of people around the world has been considerably influenced by successful drug development.

19 Nov 2020

Global Graphene Group Lithium Metal Battery Patents Hold Key to EV Future

Global Graphene Group (G3) announces the issuance of 8 key patents for long range lithium metal battery technology. This suite of patented solutions is fundamental for EV OEMs to move forward with solid-state or lithium metal battery development, an energy dense battery that will give EVs an extended driving range on a single charge. This technology will enable widespread market adoption of EVs. The patents were approved between May and November of 2020.

From Global Graphene Group 19 Nov 2020

Dust - The New Tool to Counter Terrorism

Forensic science experts at Flinders University are refining an innovative counter-terrorism technique that checks for environmental DNA in the dust on clothing, baggage, shoes or even a passport.

19 Nov 2020

$Rigaku Launches New Curved Single Crystal X-ray Diffraction Detector with Smaller Form Factor$

Rigaku Launches New Curved Single Crystal X-ray Diffraction Detector with Smaller Form Factor

Rigaku HyPix-Arc 100° Curved Photon Counting X-ray Detector

From Rigaku Corporation 19 Nov 2020

Nanoscale Building Method Could Power Anti-Counterfeiting Tools

Scientists have developed a new nanoscale building technique that could help create exclusive anti-counterfeiting and chemical sensing tools, which can be used with the human eyes.

18 Nov 2020

New Gold Nanodisk-Based Technology Could Improve Diagnostics

As far as imaging the smallest nanoparticles is concerned, existing advanced methods have evident restrictions, making it hard for scientists to study viruses and other structures at the molecular level.

17 Nov 2020

Printable Two-Dimensional Superconducting Monolayers

NUS scientists have developed a scalable electrochemical exfoliation method to synthesise two-dimensional (2D) superconducting material for use in printing technologies.

16 Nov 2020

What do EU Citizens Think About Nanomaterials?

A study, commissioned by the EU Observatory for Nanomaterials, measured and analysed how citizens in Austria, Bulgaria, Finland, France and Poland perceive nanomaterials and their potential risks to our health and the environment.

16 Nov 2020

No Losses: Scientists Stuff Graphene with Light

Physicists from MIPT and Vladimir State University, Russia, have achieved a nearly 90% efficiency converting light energy into surface waves on graphene.

16 Nov 2020

Manchester scientists discover new family of quasiparticles in graphene-based materials

A group of researchers led by Sir Andre Geim and Dr Alexey Berdyugin at The University of Manchester have discovered and characterized a new family of quasiparticles named ‘Brown-Zak fermions’ in graphene-based superlattices.

13 Nov 2020