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New Clothing Material Could Become Personal Cooling Units

People coming in from the heat experience a comfortable feeling in air-conditioned buildings. However, this comfort can be created only if an increased amount of money is spent, and the environment also experiences greenhouse gas emissions along with increased energy bills.

9 Nov 2017

Researchers Successfully Integrate Electronic Circuits into Textiles and Fabric

Scientists have achieved the successful integration of stretchable, washable, and breathable electronic circuits into fabric. This achievement paves the way for innovative probabilities in the fields of wearable electronics and smart textiles.

9 Nov 2017

Researchers Find Way to Expand Printable Color Spectrum with Novel Nanostructure System

Printed items, from textbooks to artwork to newspapers, are a part of everyday life. However, the ink used in printers today is limited in resolution and colors.

9 Nov 2017

Scientists Fabricate Highly Miniaturized Pressure Sensors Using Graphene Membranes

Highly miniaturized pressure sensors have been fabricated by scientists at The University of Manchester with the help of graphene membranes capable of detecting small changes in pressure with high sensitivity, over an extensive range of operating pressures.

9 Nov 2017

Graphene-Based Composite Material Could Lead to Ultra-Low-Power Transistors

An international team of researchers has used a graphene-based composite material and found a new route to ultra-low-power transistors.

8 Nov 2017

Lost Electrons Found in Mixed Valence Compounds

The idea of valence – the ability of a particular atom to join with other atoms by sharing and exchanging electrons – is central to modern chemistry and solid-state physics.

By Kerry Taylor-Smith 7 Nov 2017

Long Carbon Nanotubes Could Have Carcinogenic Effect Similar to Asbestos

Nanotechnology, the science of creating materials possessing very tiny fibers, is having an increasing influence on everyday life. Currently, researchers have demonstrated for the first time in mice that long and thin nanomaterials known as carbon nanotubes could possibly have the same carcinogenic effect as asbestos: they can trigger the development of mesothelioma.

7 Nov 2017

Time-Resolved Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering Improves Explosive Modelling

For the very first time in the U.S., time-resolved small-angle x-ray scattering (TRSAXS) has been employed for observing ultra-fast carbon clustering and graphite and nanodiamond production in the insensitive explosive Plastic Bonded Explosive (PBX) 9502, theoretically leading to advanced computer models of explosive performance.

7 Nov 2017

Nanomedicine Researchers Discover New Use for 70-Year-Old Drug

A recent study reveals that a 70-year-old malaria drug is capable of blocking immune cells in the liver allowing the arrival of nanoparticles at their intended tumor site, thus overcoming a major obstacle of targeted drug delivery, according to a team of researchers headed by Houston Methodist.

7 Nov 2017

Scientists Achieve Environment-Friendly Synthesis of Metal-Sulfide Nanoparticles

Although nanoparticles with controllable size and composition find wider application in optical, electrical, and chemical devices, they ought to be developed in a cost-efficient and safe manner.

7 Nov 2017

Good Practice Guide on the Characterization of Graphene

Graphene, considered to be the world's first two-dimensional material, is several times stronger than steel, and more conductive than copper, besides being flexible, lightweight and one million times thinner than a strand of human hair.

6 Nov 2017

Researchers Find a Multifaceted Nanomaterial in Dendritic Fibrous Nanosilica

The use of dendritic fibrous nanosilica, or DFNS, has increased in many scientific fields such as solar energy harvesting (solar cells, photocatalysis, etc.), catalysis, surface plasmon resonance (SPR)-based ultra-sensitive sensors, energy storage, CO2 capture, biomedical applications (protein and gene delivery, photothermal ablation, drug delivery, bioimaging, Ayurvedic and radiotherapeutics drug delivery, etc.), and self-cleaning antireflective coatings.

6 Nov 2017

Ultrafast Laser for Shaping Gold Nanoparticles that Might be Used in Biomedicine

An innovative laser system that can be used to shape nanometric gold particles, measuring one-millionths of a millimeter, to enhance their characteristics in photonics and biomedicine has been developed through a research conducted at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM). The study has now been reported in the Science journal.

6 Nov 2017

Park Systems Announces the Grand Opening of the Park NanoScience Center at SUNY Polytechnic Institute

The Grand Opening of the Park NanoScience Center at SUNY Polytechnic Institute will be held Nov. 10, 2017, at 2p.m. and will include a ribbon cutting ceremony, followed by a featured talk from Park Systems’ founder...

6 Nov 2017

Wrinkles in Pillared Graphene Boost Thermal Transport Abilities

According to Rice University engineers, pillared graphene would convey heat better if the theoretical material had a few asymmetric junctions that produced wrinkles.

3 Nov 2017