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Magnetic Nanoparticles Ready to Progress from Lab to Breast Cancer Clinical Trials

For 15 years, materials chemist Dale Huber from the Sandia National Laboratories has been involved in the challenge of creating iron-based nanoparticles measuring the exact same size.

2 May 2018

Yale-Led Project Prepares Comprehensive Database of Nanomaterials for Materials Designers

Engineered nanomaterials show a lot of potential for medicine, water treatment, electronics, and other fields. But when developed without crucial information about environmental impacts at the beginning of the process, the materials’ long-term effects could destabilize those advances. As a part of a Yale-led project, a team of researchers aim to change that.

2 May 2018

Chemical-Free Technique Etches Patterns at Atomic Scale

Researchers from the Penn State and Southwest Jiaotong University and Tsinghua University in China have developed a precise, chemical-free technique for etching nanoscale features on silicon wafers.

1 May 2018

Efficient Purification of Extreme Viruses

Postnova Analytics announce in a joint collaboration with the Department of Biosciences at the University of Helsinki (Finland), that Asymmetrical Flow Field-Flow Fractionation (AF4) was successfully employed for the pur...

From Postnova Analytics GmbH 26 Apr 2018

Researchers Optimize Light Absorption Properties of Graphene

Although graphene has various properties—for instance, it is an exceptionally good conductor—it does not have the ability to optimally absorb light. In order to overcome this constraining feature of graphene, which is otherwise an amazing material, physicists chose to embed a graphene sheet within a flat photonic crystal, which efficiently controls the flow of light.

26 Apr 2018

Graphene Origami for Tunable Plasmonic Resonances

Soldiers have to see through airborne obscurants & detect the presence of toxins or other chemicals.To identify those chemicals, they employ infrared (IR) sensors and spectroscopy, which allow a particular color of light to shine at a specific frequency corresponding to each chemical.

25 Apr 2018

DNA-PAINT - Technique for Visualizing all Strands of DNA Nanostructures

DNA origami is a technique for the design & self-assembly of molecular structures. By utilizing the base-pairing interactions between single-stranded DNA molecules of known sequence, the method generates arbitrarily large numbers of intricate 3D nanostructures with predefined shapes.

25 Apr 2018

New Device Offers Insights into Effects of Electron Irradiation on Biological Samples

A team of engineers and scientists have investigated the mechanisms responsible for degradation of sample quality in liquid cell transmission electron microscopy (LC-TEM).

25 Apr 2018

Two-Dimensional Cadmium Telluride Naturally Folds into Nanoscrolls

Researchers from the Faculty of Chemistry and the Faculty of Materials Science, MSU along with foreign colleagues discovered that two-dimensional (2D) sheets of cadmium telluride are capable of naturally folding into nanoscrolls. This effect may be used in photonics and electronics.

25 Apr 2018

Nanotechnology Used to Make Drugs 'Smarter'

A new technique has been formulated to make drugs 'smarter' with the use of nanotechnology so that delivery of drug to the target area will be more effective.

24 Apr 2018

Innovative Strategies for Nanoscale Customization of Properties of Light

A collaborative study has demonstrated that cautiously structured light and matching arrangements of metal nanostructures, or “plasmonic oligomers,” can be blended to change the properties of the generated light at the nanoscale.

24 Apr 2018

Scientists Demonstrate Flexibility of Diamond Nanoscale Needles

A paper published in the Science journal on April 20, 2018, describes an astonishing finding by an international team of researchers that diamond, the hardest known naturally occurring material in the world, is also flexible when formed into nanoscale needles.

23 Apr 2018

Innovative Methodology of Using Water Microdroplets to Produce Gold Nanoparticles

Stanford researchers have found out that an experiment that, by virtue of design, was not expected to give any notable results instead led to a “bewildering” surprise: a new methodology for producing gold nanoparticles and nanowires with the help of water droplets.

23 Apr 2018

New Nanoscale Transistor May Pave Way for High-Performance Wearable Smart Tech

Researchers at The University of Manchester and Shandong University in China have developed a nanoscale transistor that will be one step closer to enabling the creation of flexible televisions, phones, and tablets as well as ‘truly wearable’ smart tech.

20 Apr 2018