A recent research reveals that in a battery system, electrodes containing porous graphene scaffolding deliver a considerable improvement in both the retention and transport of energy. Typically, methods to increase the density of stored charge conflict with those that aim to enhance the speed at which ions can travel through a material.
A team from the University of Manchester have demonstrated fully scalable prototypes of graphene membranes capable of producing heavy water.
By Kerry Taylor-Smith
11 May 2017
Science and art have come together to create a new fabrication method to print a nanoscale imaging probe onto the tip of a glass fibre as thin as a human hair.
By Kerry Taylor-Smith
11 May 2017
Rice University researchers recently discovered that excited electrons are capable of tunneling across a nanoscale insulator gap – going from one metallic conductor to another.
By Brett Smith
11 May 2017
A method for producing more efficient, smaller intermetallic nanoparticles, for fuel cell applications, has been discovered by scientists at Ames Laboratory. This new method also uses less of the expensive precious metal platinum.
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Graphene is said to be a highly promising new material. However, the methodical insertion of chemically bound molecules and atoms to manipulate its properties remains a big challenge.
Yuliya Lisunova and co-authors have presented their publication entitled "High-aspect ratio nanopatterning via combined thermal scanning probe lithography and dry etching" in Microelectronic Engineering.
A majority of cancer tumors contain regions of low oxygen concentration where cancer treatments based on the action of reactive oxygen species are unproductive. Recently, American researchers have created a hybrid nanomaterial that discharges a free-radical-generating prodrug within tumor cells upon thermal activation.
A team of international researchers have created a new technique to synthesize single-layer graphene from a simple precursor, namely, ethene. Ethene is also called ethylene and is the smallest alkene molecule with only two atoms of carbon.
An innovative technique that combines tumor suppressor protein p53 and biomineralization peptide BMPep was successful in synthesizing hexagonal silver nanoplates, indicating an effective approach for regulating the nanostructure of inorganic materials.
When a material is thinned down to a single-atom thickness, it can greatly alter that material's physical properties. For instance, graphene, the popular 2D material, has unmatched electrical conductivity and strength, unlike its bulk form, graphite.
Unlimited possibilities are almost available for the new field of two-dimensional, one-atomic-layer-thick materials, including but not limited to graphene.
Through improved calculations, physicists and mathematicians at the University of Twente have recently discovered that a thin, diamond-like photonic nanostructure is capable of reflecting an unexpected broad range of colors of light, from all angles.
The advantages of Nano One’s patented technology were described by Dan Blondal, CEO of Nano One Materials today. He explained how Nano One’s patented technology could facilitate long range electric vehicle batteries to use lithium carbonate as a substitute to expensive and supply-constrained lithium hydroxide.