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Materials Design Center Receives $25 Million Grant

Materials Design Center Receives $25 Million Grant

After spending the past five years solidifying Chicago as a hub for high-tech materials innovation, the second phase of the Chicago-based Center for Hierarchical Materials Design (CHiMaD) has been selected for funding.

From The Graphene Council 7 Feb 2019

Leading Supplier to Composites Companies Adds Graphene to Its Portfolio

Leading Supplier to Composites Companies Adds Graphene to Its Portfolio

As an association trying to support and promote the use of graphene over the last half-decade, The Graphene Council has rightly focused on the interests and developments of the graphene research community as well as those companies marketing graphene materials.

From The Graphene Council 7 Feb 2019

Women in Graphene Career Development Day

Women in Graphene Career Development Day

The "Women In Graphene" initiative within the Graphene Flagship has been set up to help support women and create a more gender diverse scientific community. It aims to connect women working in graphene through biannual meetings and peer to peer support.

From The Graphene Council 7 Feb 2019

Gratomic and TODAQ Announce Supply Chain Partnership to Track Commercial Graphene from Source to End Consumer on the TODA Protocol

Gratomic and TODAQ Announce Supply Chain Partnership to Track Commercial Graphene from Source to End Consumer on the TODA Protocol

Gratomic Inc. and TODAQ Holdings are pleased to announce that they have entered into a memorandum of understanding describing the terms of a supply chain partnership to put Gratomic's supply chain and products on the TODA Protocol.

From The Graphene Council 7 Feb 2019

Engineers Develop Novel Strategy for Designing Semiconductor Nanoparticles for Wide-Ranging Applications

Engineers Develop Novel Strategy for Designing Semiconductor Nanoparticles for Wide-Ranging Applications

Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) nanomaterials such as molybdenite (MoS2), which possess a similar structure as graphene, have been donned the materials of the future for their wide range of potential applications in biomedicine, sensors, catalysts, photodetectors and energy storage devices.

From The Graphene Council 7 Feb 2019

Physicists Take Big Step in Nanolaser Design

Physicists Take Big Step in Nanolaser Design

Nanolasers have recently emerged as a new class of light sources that have a size of only a few millionths of a meter and unique properties remarkably different from those of macroscopic lasers.

7 Feb 2019

Kanazawa University Research: Chirality Inversion in a Helical Molecule at Controlled Speeds

Kanazawa University Research: Chirality Inversion in a Helical Molecule at Controlled Speeds

A strategy to invert the chirality of a metal-containing helical molecule controlling the speed of the response is reported in Chemistry, A European Journal by researchers at Kanazawa University.

7 Feb 2019

Prior Scientific Introduces the NanoScan NPC-D-6000 Series Multi Channel Controllers

Prior Scientific Introduces the NanoScan NPC-D-6000 Series Multi Channel Controllers

Prior Scientific are pleased to announce the release of our Queensgate NanoScan NPC-D-6000 Series Multi-Channel Closed Loop Controllers.

From Prior Scientific Instruments Ltd. 7 Feb 2019

Graphene-White Graphene Combination Shown to Improve Self-Sensing Properties of Ceramics

Graphene-White Graphene Combination Shown to Improve Self-Sensing Properties of Ceramics

A ceramic that turns less electrically conductive when subjected to plastic strain and more conductive under elastic strain could open the door for a new generation of sensors that can be integrated into structures such as bridges, buildings, and aircraft with the ability to monitor their own health.

6 Feb 2019

Palladium Used by Researchers to Track Nanoplastics

Palladium Used by Researchers to Track Nanoplastics

Over 98% of the tiniest plastic particles from sewers are retained in sludge. Scientists have been able to establish this by integrating the precious metal palladium as a tracer in artificial nanoplastics.

5 Feb 2019

Insulated Molecular Wires: The Smallest Electric Power Cord

Insulated Molecular Wires: The Smallest Electric Power Cord

A new supramolecular self-encapsulation strategy provides an effective route to construct stable light-emitting polymers for optoelectronic applications.

4 Feb 2019

Researchers Create Functional Bulk Nanocomposites Through Direct Biosynthesis

Researchers Create Functional Bulk Nanocomposites Through Direct Biosynthesis

Researchers are increasingly keen to construct bulk nanocomposite materials from biosourced and renewable nanoscale building blocks.

4 Feb 2019

Researchers Transfer Advanced Microscopy Method to X-ray Imaging

Researchers Transfer Advanced Microscopy Method to X-ray Imaging

X-rays are known to offer interesting and detailed insights into the interior of cells, tissues, and materials.

4 Feb 2019

Advanced Imaging Techniques Reveal that the Structure of Tunneling Nanotubes Challenges the Concept of Cells

Advanced Imaging Techniques Reveal that the Structure of Tunneling Nanotubes Challenges the Concept of Cells

Cells in the human body have the potential to communicate with each other just like how people do. This interaction enables the organs in the human body to work in a synchronized manner, which consecutively allows humans to carry out a remarkable number of tasks encountered on a day-to-day basis.

1 Feb 2019

Innovative Electron Microscopy Delivers Damage-Free Tracking of Isotopes in Amino Acids at Nanoscale

Innovative Electron Microscopy Delivers Damage-Free Tracking of Isotopes in Amino Acids at Nanoscale

A new electron microscopy method capable of detecting the minute variations in the weight of proteins at the nanoscale—while preserving the integrity of the sample—could pave the way for deeper, more wide-ranging studies on the basic building blocks of life.

1 Feb 2019

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The Future of Graphene

Terrance Barkan

The Graphene Council is the largest Community for graphene professionals, producers, research application developers and end-users in the world. In this interview, Terrance Barkan, Executive Director from The Graphene Council talks to AZoNano about their 2019 Bulk Graphene Market Report and what is

The Future of Graphene

Making Cryogen Free Measurements: Challenges and Solutions

Dr. Michael Cuthbert

In this interview, Michael Cuthbert highlights the main challenges researchers face when performing Cryogen Free Measurements, and introduces the Cryofree™ cryostats from Oxford Instruments as a suitable solution.

Making Cryogen Free Measurements: Challenges and Solutions

Exploring the Synergy of AFM Resonance Oscillatory Modes

Sergei Magonov

In this interview, Sergei Magonov, President of NT-MDT Development, talks about the latest developments in the capabilities of NT-MDT’s range of AFMs, including new oscillatory resonance modes, and a new thermally-stable microscope cabinet, which allow expanded application opportunities.

Exploring the Synergy of AFM Resonance Oscillatory Modes

SOLVER Pipe II for Non-Destructive AFM

SOLVER Pipe II for Non-Destructive AFM

This is an AFM system which can be used to non-destructively analyze samples.

From NT-MDT Spectrum Instruments

Precision Thinning for TEM Analysis

Precision Thinning for TEM Analysis

This product discusses precision thinning for TEM analysis.

From Ted Pella, Inc.

Superhydrophobic Nano Coating for All Surfaces - Nasiol SHBC

Superhydrophobic Nano Coating for All Surfaces - Nasiol SHBC

SHBS superhydrophobic spray coatings have outstripped these capabilities, providing a high-performance coating for industrial surfaces that actively repels water and stains to maintain clean surfaces for optimal ongoing operation.

From Nasiol