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Conducting Polymer Created with Potential to be used in Smart Soft Electronics

Soft electronic devices, such as a smartphone on the wrist and a folding screen in the pocket could be possible in the near future if researchers can develop a process to create electronic devices from soft organic materials rather than the currently used stiff inorganic materials.

4 Aug 2016

New Nanoparticles Serve as Improved Contrast Agents for MRI

Scientists from the University of Basel have developed nanoparticles that have the potential to serve as contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging.

4 Aug 2016

New Switchable Metamaterials Could Lead to Advanced Optical Devices

Metamaterials play a bigger role in invisibility cloaks than magic. The materials are human-engineered and they have properties that are not seen in nature, enabling them to bend and manipulate light in unusual ways.

3 Aug 2016

Ocean Optics Introduces New SERS Nanosponge Substrate for Raman Spectroscopy Applications

Ocean Optics has introduced a new substrate for Raman spectroscopy applications. The new RAM-SERS-SP Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy substrates use a proprietary gold-silver nanosponge alloy to produce highly sensitive, trace-level Raman spectroscopy measurements.

3 Aug 2016

HORIBA X-RAY LAB is a Powerful Tool for RoHS, ELV and Halogen-Free Applications

HORIBA Scientific, global leader in X-ray Fluorescence analysis, announces enhancements to the software in its MESA-50 Energy Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence Analyzer. HORIBA X-RAY Lab is the new software in our MESA-50 ...

From HORIBA 3 Aug 2016

Nanoparticle Technology Could Help Improve Safety and Efficacy of Biologic Drugs

Nature Nanotechnology has published a new article that shows preclinical results from a study conducted by Selecta Biosciences. Selecta is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that develops targeted antigen-specific immune therapies for rare and grave diseases.

2 Aug 2016

Patterning Monolayer Graphene Nanoribbons with Zigzag Edges

It has become feasible to create a high-quality material - monolayer graphene nanoribbon with zigzag edges - for semiconductors and spintronic devices.

2 Aug 2016

Bibby Scientific Launches New Jenway® Spectrophotometer with Advanced Diode Array Technology

Bibby Scientific Ltd announced today that Jenway®, a leading UK manufacturer of analytical laboratory instruments, has launched the new 7200 visible scanning spectrophotometer. The 7200 has been designed for simp...

From Cole-Parmer Ltd 2 Aug 2016

Scientists Use Computer Simulations to Develop Graphene-Like Crystals of Salts

An international team of researchers from Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), the National University of Science and Technology MISiS (Russia), Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), Rice University (USA), and the Technological Institute for Superhard and Novel Carbon Materials (TISNCM) have found out how thin a slab of salt should be for it to break down into graphene-like layers, using computer stimulations.

By Will Soutter 1 Aug 2016

Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication Adds Cutting Edge Nanolithography Capability

Nanotechnology is widely considered to be the way of the future for electronics, medicine and many other scientific endeavours.

1 Aug 2016

Research Team Develops Ultrathin, Transparent Oxide TFT for Active-Matrix Backplane of Flexible Display

With the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) era, strong demand has grown for wearable and transparent displays that can be applied to various fields such as augmented reality (AR) and skin-like thin flexible devices.

1 Aug 2016

NSF Awards Grants to Develop Novel Computational Framework that Can Custom Design Nanoparticles

Building upon their previous research, engineering faculty at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering and Carnegie Mellon University College of Engineering were awarded grants from the National Science Foundation to develop a novel computational framework that can custom design nanoparticles.

29 Jul 2016

Nanotechnology News

Conducting Polymer Created with Potential to be used in Smart Soft Electronics

New Nanoparticles Serve as Improved Contrast Agents for MRI

New Switchable Metamaterials Could Lead to Advanced Optical Devices

Ocean Optics Introduces New SERS Nanosponge Substrate for Raman Spectroscopy Applications

HORIBA X-RAY LAB is a Powerful Tool for RoHS, ELV and Halogen-Free Applications

Nanoparticle Technology Could Help Improve Safety and Efficacy of Biologic Drugs

Patterning Monolayer Graphene Nanoribbons with Zigzag Edges

Bibby Scientific Launches New Jenway® Spectrophotometer with Advanced Diode Array Technology

Scientists Use Computer Simulations to Develop Graphene-Like Crystals of Salts

Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication Adds Cutting Edge Nanolithography Capability

Research Team Develops Ultrathin, Transparent Oxide TFT for Active-Matrix Backplane of Flexible Display

NSF Awards Grants to Develop Novel Computational Framework that Can Custom Design Nanoparticles

Cal State LA Awarded Grant to Educate Future Leaders in Field of Paper-Based Microfluidics

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