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Graphene Utilized to Make Hiking Boots for the First Time Ever

Basing on the global success of their revolutionary use of graphene in trail running and fitness shoes last summer, the brand is currently bringing the groundbreaking technology to a market hungry for innovation.

18 Dec 2018

Optimizing Drug Delivery Using Electrospun Polymeric Nanofibers

Nanotechnology has turned out to be an intriguing strategy toward solving challenges in the field of medicine in the latest studies.

17 Dec 2018

New Study Offers Interesting and Unforeseen Findings on Collagen Fibrils

The basic building block of tissues, muscles, ligaments, and tendons in mammals is collagen. It is also extensively used in cosmetic and reconstructive surgery.

14 Dec 2018

Energetic Properties of Colloids in Spinning Magnetic Field

Experiments reveal micron-sized spheres coming together under the impact of a speedily spinning magnetic field.

13 Dec 2018

Oxford Instruments participates in the launch of the European Quantum Technology Flagship Programme ‘QMiCS’

Oxford Instruments NanoScience is pleased to announce a partnership with the leading European institutions, including renowned research groups from Germany, France, Spain, Finland, and Portugal. The group is led by the W...

From Oxford Instruments Nanoscience 13 Dec 2018

Controlling Transport of Nanomaterial Across Cell Membrane by Tuning Membrane Tension

Growing awareness of toxicity and bioeffects of nanomaterials interacting with cells brings into focus the mechanisms by which nanomaterials can cross lipid membranes.

13 Dec 2018

Novel Technique Drastically Improves the Resolution of Light Microscope

Physical conditions tend to restrict the sharpness of a light microscope, for example, structures that are closer together than 0.2 thousandths of a millimeter will blur into one another and will no longer be differentiated from each other.

12 Dec 2018

Cutting Graphene into Smaller Fragments to Build Beneficial Nanostructures

Up to the present time, it has proved very challenging to convert the promises of the wonder material graphene into useful applications.

12 Dec 2018

Cryo-Electron Microscopy Reveals Higher Radiation Tolerance of Proteins

Electron microscopy is one of the most extensively used techniques for inspecting protein structure.

11 Dec 2018

Using Nanowire Memristor to Artificially Emulate Biological Synapses of the Human Brain

One of the most significant difficulties faced by modern technology is emulating and understanding the human brain: for one thing, the potential to artificially reproduce the processing of brain signals is one of the foundation stones for the development of artificial intelligence; for another, gaining insights into the cognitive processes at the base of the human mind is still far off.

11 Dec 2018

Study Helps Promote Gibbs’ Classical Nucleation Theory of Material Formation

A latest collaborative research headed by a research group at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Washington could offer engineers innovative design rules for developing microelectronics, tissues, and membranes and pave the way for better production techniques for new materials.

7 Dec 2018