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New Lake Shore eBook Discusses the FORC Measurement and Analysis Method

First-order-reversal-curve (FORC) measurements have become indispensable for characterizing interactions and coercivity distributions in a wide array of magnetic materials.

From Lake Shore Cryotronics Inc. 17 May 2017

Self-Forming Silver Nanoparticles Retain High Conductivity in Printable Elastic Conductor

Japanese scientists have developed a new printable elastic conductor that retains high conductivity even when stretched to five times its original length.

16 May 2017

Research Shows Gas Can Bestow Laser-Induced Graphene with Super Properties

Researchers from Rice University who are credited for inventing laser-induced graphene (LIG) for applications such as supercapacitors have recently discovered a way to create the spongy graphene either superhydrophilic or superhydrophobic.

16 May 2017

WSU Team Delivers "Nanotherapeutics" Directly to Tumor for First Time

A team of researchers from Washington State University (WSU) have shown a method to supply a drug to a tumor by attaching it to a blood cell. The innovation would enable doctors to target tumors with anticancer drugs that might otherwise destroy healthy tissues.

16 May 2017

Deben Announce That Their Tensile Stage has Been Selected by GETec & Nanosurf for Their AFSEM Correlative AFM and SEM Product

Deben, a leading provider of in-situ testing stages together with innovative accessories and components for electron microscopy, reports on the use of the AFSEM™ correlative AFM & SEM system with their tensile stage for in situ mechanical test and measurement. Manufactured by GETec, it will be sold by Nanosurf and other selected sales channels worldwide.

From Deben 16 May 2017

New Environmentally Friendly Method to Make Nanoclusters of Zinc Peroxide

Anticancer nanomaterials have been created by a team of researchers at Aalto University, Finland by simulating the volcano-induced dynamic chemistry of the deep ocean.

15 May 2017

New Research Reveals Rich Potential of Holey Graphene for Battery Systems

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.

12 May 2017

Graphene Membranes Could Mean Greener And Cheaper Nuclear Power

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

Printing at the Nanoscale on the tip of an Optical Fibre

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

Gold electrons can tunnel a nanoscale gap

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

New Technique for Producing Increasingly Efficient Intermetallic Nanoparticles for Fuel Cell Applications

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.

10 May 2017

Lake Shore Exhibiting New Nanoscale Characterization Solutions at Nanotech 2017

VSM for fast, convenient analysis of magnetic nanomaterial properties among products featured

From Lake Shore Cryotronics Inc. 10 May 2017

Spectral Fingerprint Allows Control of Graphene Properties

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.

9 May 2017

High-Resolution Nanopatterns Fabricated in Hard Substrates

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.

5 May 2017

Nanoparcel to Destroy Hypoxic Cancer Cells

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.

5 May 2017