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Compact Lasers Used to Recreate Conditions Prevalent Inside Stars

The energy density contained in the center of a star is said to be greater than what is imaginable. Compared with the one atmosphere of pressure humans live with on Earth's surface, the star’s energy density is several billions of atmospheres.

12 Jan 2017

Understanding Beetle Exoskeleton Could Lead to New and Improved Artificial Materials

What can a beetle tell us about good design principles? Quite a lot, actually.

12 Jan 2017

FemtoTools' New Nanoindenter Offers Complete Solution for Comprehensive Analysis of Microstructures

The FT-MTA03 Micromechanical Testing and Assembly System is a highly versatile testing instrument for the accurate quantification of mechanical properties and dimensions/geometry in the micro- and nanoscale.

11 Jan 2017

Researchers Discover Peculiar State of Fluid Mixtures Contained In Nanochannels

Shrinking the investigation of objects down to the nanometer scale often reveals new properties of matter that have no equivalent for their bulk analysis. This phenomenon is motivating many current studies of nanomaterials which can reveal fascinating new phenomena.

11 Jan 2017

The 308 PV Spectrophotometer for Your Microscope

The 308 PVâ„¢ is a cost effective, manual solution to add UV-visible-NIR absorbance, reflectance, fluorescence and polarization spectroscopy to your microscope.

From CRAIC Technologies 10 Jan 2017

MIT Researchers Develop Porous, 3D Forms of Graphene

MIT researchers have developed one of the strongest lightweight materials known to man. They created the new material by compressing and fusing flakes of graphene, a 2D form of carbon.

9 Jan 2017

Mark Your Calendar: The Utility of Alternative Testing Strategies in Nanotechnology Health and Safety Evaluations- A Webinar Featuring CEIN's Dr. Andre Nel

Research over the past 15 years has led to significant progress in understanding the potential environmental, health, and safety (EHS) implications of nanomaterials, generating an impressive body of literature and test data. However, keeping pace with the rapid development and diversity of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) and nanotechnology-enabled products will require considerable advances in risk assessment methodologies.

9 Jan 2017

Researchers Derive New Insights into Chemical Reactions Using Nanotechnology

Catalytic processes are used to manufacture 80% of all products of the chemical industry. Catalysis is also crucial in treatment of exhaust gases and energy conversion.

6 Jan 2017

Research on DNA Nanotubes Leads to New Means for Direct Communication with Cells

A remarkable microscopic feat resembling a high-wire circus act was achieved by Johns Hopkins researchers when they successfully managed to coax DNA nanotubes to arrange themselves into bridge-like structures arched between two molecular landmarks on the surface of a lab dish. Examples of this unusual nanoscale feat were captured on video.

6 Jan 2017

Characterisation of Nanomaterials in Commercial Products

Postnova Analytics reports on how the inorganic analysis team within LGC (Teddington, UK) has been using the AF2000 Field Flow Fractionation system coupled to Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS) to characterise nanomaterials in complex sample matrices for clinical, cosmetic and food use.

6 Jan 2017

Characterisation of Nanomaterials in Commercial Products

From Postnova Analytics GmbH 6 Jan 2017

Rice Researchers Tweak Graphene to Develop Phonon-Friendly Cones

Rice University researchers claim that just a few nanoscale tweaks could enable graphene-nanotube junctions do extremely well at transferring heat.

5 Jan 2017

Researchers Apply Nanotechnology to Explain Unresolved Processes Behind Catalysis

The fact that catalytic processes are employed for producing nearly 80% of products in the chemical industry makes catalysis highly obligatory for energy conversion and treatment of exhaust gases.

5 Jan 2017

Imec and Besi Demonstrate Long-Term Reliability of Ni-Cu-Ag Plated Solar Modules

Drunen (The Netherlands) and Leuven (Belgium)—January 3, 2017—Today, the world-leading research and innovation hub in nano-electronics, energy and digital technology imec (partner in EnergyVille) and BE Semiconductor Industries N.V. (Besi), a leading manufacturer of assembly equipment for the semiconductor industry, announced that they have demonstrated long-term reliability in five full size 60-cells Nickel/Copper/Silver (Ni/Cu/Ag) plated solar cell modules, confirming the industrial value of this metallization technology.

5 Jan 2017