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Nanometer-Scale Image Provides New Information Regarding Marine Shell Formation

The ocean has countless single-celled organisms that grow protective shells in order to keep themselves safe as they drift along, feeding off other miniature marine animals and plants. Collectively, the shells are so abundant that when they sink they provide oceanographers with a wealth of historic data regarding ocean chemistry.

25 Oct 2016

Graphene in Healthcare - Project 2D-Health Launched

Graphenea is proud to participate in a new project funded by EPSRC (the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council), the UK's main agency for funding research in engineering and the physical sciences.

From Graphenea 25 Oct 2016

Pipetting Tips - Straight as a Plate or as Uneven as a Mountain Range?

Quite often, generic pipette tips on a multichannel pipette resemble a mountain range rather than perfectly aligned tips.

From INTEGRA Biosciences 25 Oct 2016

Scientists Manipulate Surfaces to Make Them Hardly Reflect Any Light and Become Nearly Invisible

Anti-reflective coating is applied to most lenses, eyeglass lenses, lasers, and objectives, however this coating only functions optimally within a narrow wavelength range.

24 Oct 2016

New Research Facilitates Tuning of Thermal Conductivity of 2D Materials

A research team has discovered a surprising way to direct the thermal conductivity of 2D materials, which will assist electronics designers to dissapate heat in electronic gadgets that utilize these materials.

24 Oct 2016

New Research to Improve HIV Treatments Using Nanotechnology

A new University of Liverpool-led study aims to enhance the administration and availability of drug therapies to HIV patients using nanotechnology.

24 Oct 2016

New Nanotool Helps Characterizing Mechanical Properties of Biomolecules

LMU physicists have developed a unique nanotool capable of providing an easy way to characterize the mechanical properties of biomolecules.

24 Oct 2016

Nanoantenna Lighting-Rod Effect Allows Speedy Optical Switches

A team of researchers, led by the University of Southampton, have built a fast nanoscale optical transistor using gold nanoantenna assisted phase transition.

24 Oct 2016

Lab Mice Successfully Vaccinated Against Dengue Fever Using Nanoparticle

Annually, dengue fever affects over 350 million people in more than 120 countries. The symptoms can range from a skin rash and achy muscles to critical hemorrhagic fever.

21 Oct 2016

Researchers Develop Self-Healing Lithium Batteries For Wearable Electronics

Wearable electronics embedded in clothing are the latest growing trend, however power sources are still an issue. The development of lithium ion batteries that are thin, flexible, and possess self-healing properties has been reported by researchers in the journal Angewandte Chemie. These batteries can grow back together even after falling apart completely, without any major effect on their electrochemical properties.

21 Oct 2016

PI's New 4-Channel Dynamic Cost-Effective Digital Piezo Controller

Also available for quick delivery, this controller is well-suited for multi-axis applications from microscopy to semiconductor metrology.

From PI (Physik Instrumente) LP 21 Oct 2016

Gold Nanoparticles May Help Improve Pancreatic Cancer Treatment

A pancreatic cancer diagnosis is often a death sentence for patients because both radiation and chemotherapy have very little effect on the disease. According to the National Institutes of Health, there will be nearly 53,000 new cases and 42,000 deaths due to pancreatic cancer this year in the U.S.

20 Oct 2016

Two New Catalysts Help in Effectively Eliminating Harmful Chlorine Compounds from Water

Recently, two new catalysts have been developed by the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw in partnership with the Jagiellonian University in Cracow and the Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce. These catalysts have been designed especially for effective treatment of tap water and also for the elimination of harmful chlorine compounds.

20 Oct 2016

Rice University Researchers Find Ways to Improve Graphene Nanoribbons

For decades, carbon fiber has been considered as a pillar of strength in the field of materials manufacturing. Rice University scientists are now finding ways to improve these carbon fibers to enhance its properties.

20 Oct 2016

Researchers Study Defects in Nanoscale Instruments

Scientists from the Tokyo Institute of Technology collaborated with the University of Cambridge to explore the interaction between electronic defect states and microwave fields within the field-effect transistors’ oxide layer at cryogenic temperatures. It has been discovered that the physics of such defect states are in sync with driven two-level systems that possess long coherence times.

20 Oct 2016