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ESS-ILL User Meeting Bring Together Researchers within Neutron Science

Neutron science is fundamental for the advanced materials research needed to address societal challenges of our time. This week more than 770 scientists are meeting digitally to share and discuss neutron research progress in the development of new smart materials, better medicines and sustainable energy and transport solutions.

24 Sep 2020

Using Nanomaterials to Decontaminate Water

Molybdenum Disulfide can be of great use in water filtration, but difficulties in producing large amounts of the substance have hindered its use. Now, an international team of researchers has found that the production of the substance in nanoribbons could allow the scaling up of fabrication.

23 Sep 2020

Nanoparticle COVID-19 Model Could Potentially Speed the Search for Drugs

A team of scientists from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences and Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., has developed a new tool that mimics how SARS-CoV-2 -- the virus that causes COVID-19 -- infects a cell, information that could potentially speed the search for treatments against the disease.

22 Sep 2020

Center for Nanoscale Science Renews NSF Support for Six Years

The Center for Nanoscale Science, a National Science Foundation Materials Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC), has again successfully renewed its NSF support in the highly competitive MRSEC program.

22 Sep 2020

Shape Affects Nanocatalyst’s Ability to Photocatalyze Chemical Reactions

Points matter when designing nanoparticles that drive important chemical reactions using the power of light.

21 Sep 2020

Magnetic Properties of Ultrathin Materials can be Studied Using New Nano-Microscope

Australian researchers and their colleagues from Russia and China have shown that it is possible to study the magnetic properties of ultrathin materials directly, via a new microscopy technique that opens the door to the discovery of more two-dimensional magnetic materials, with all sorts of potential applications.

21 Sep 2020

Researchers Design Smaller Electrical Nanolasers

Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and King's College London cleared the obstacle that had prevented the creation of electrically driven nanolasers for integrated circuits.

17 Sep 2020

Self-Assembled Peptide-Based Nanotubes Show Promise for Energy Harvesting Applications

Nanogenerators capable of converting mechanical energy into electricity are typically made from metal oxides and lead-based perovskites.

16 Sep 2020

Researchers Develop Nanomedicine to Treat Prostate Cancer More Efficiently

Scientists have produced and patented a novel nanomedicine (theranostic system) for diagnosing and treating prostate cancer.

16 Sep 2020

Vacuum Compatible Miniature Linear and Rotary Stages, New from PI

PI’s family of miniature micro and nanopositioning stages is expanding with the new RS-40 rotary stage and M-111 linear stages as engineers gave specific consideration to material selection, use of lubricants and coatings, and outbakeing temperatures for high and ultra-high vacuum conditions.

From Physik Instrumente (PI) GmbH & Co KG 16 Sep 2020

Rubbery Properties of RNA Nanoparticles Provide High Tumor Targeting Efficiency

A new study by researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute shows that RNA nanoparticles have elastic and rubbery properties that help explain why these particles target tumors so efficiently and why they possess lower toxicity in animal studies.

15 Sep 2020

Discover Latest Technologies at Graphene Flagship Press Event

Introducing the first ever graphene-powered solar farm

15 Sep 2020

2D FFF System Opens Door to New Separations

Postnova Analytics powerful EAF4 technology combines the principle of Electrical and Asymmetrical Flow Field-Flow Fractionation in just one system.

From Postnova Analytics GmbH 15 Sep 2020

Analytik Launch Temperature Controlled 3D Bioprinter

The BioScaffolder Prime from Analytik is a new affordable high-performance 3D bioprinter which delivers precision engineering in an advanced, customisable platform.

15 Sep 2020

Bio-Rad Introduces StarBright Violet 515 Dye for Flow Cytometry

Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., a global leader of life science research and clinical diagnostic products, today announced the launch of StarBright Violet 515 (SBV515) Dye, the first of a new range of unique fluorescent nanoparticles, for use in flow cytometry.

From Bio-Rad Laboratories 14 Sep 2020