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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

New Method to Produce Robust and Lightweight Metallic Nanofoam

A simple technique for producing very low-density palladium nanofoams could help progress hydrogen storage technologies, reports a new research from the University of California, Davis.

3 Nov 2017

New Nanoscale Optical ‘Abacus’ Uses Light Signals to Perform Arithmetic Computations

One of the most rudimentary methods of counting has received a 21st century make-over due to the quest for developing more powerful and ever-faster computers.

3 Nov 2017

New Approach for Attaining Non-Toxic Magnetic Photonic Crystals

ITMO University researchers have developed a new approach for attaining non-toxic magnetic photonic crystals, increasing their applications from chiefly photonics to biomedicine.

3 Nov 2017

Thomas Swan targets graphene reinforced carbon fibre composite market

North-East England-based independent chemical manufacturer, Thomas Swan & Co Ltd will be expanding its range of formulated Elicarb® Graphene materials with a prototype product focusing on the manufacture of a car...

3 Nov 2017

Filter Membranes Made with Nanoparticles Restrict Accumulation of Slime

Fundamentally, filtration membranes are sponge-like materials including pores that are micro- or nanoscopically small. Bacteria, undesirable chemicals, and also viruses are physically obstructed by the mesh maze. However, liquids such as water can pass through the maze.

2 Nov 2017

Nature Inspires Non-spherical Drug Delivery Nanoparticles

When a drug enters the body, it doesn’t generally target a particular part of the body. Paracetamol, for example, affects the whole body but its effects are felt at the source of pain.

By Kerry Taylor-Smith 1 Nov 2017

New Human-Machine Interface Enables Scientists to Visualize and Interpret Large Data

Lehigh is executing a $3-million institutional investment in a multidisciplinary research initiative that ensures to change the way human beings harness and then interact with data and with the refined instruments of scientific discovery.

1 Nov 2017