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Scientists Develop Bio-Inspired Nanocatalysts for Fuel Cells

Fuel cells represent an important component of the energy transition, as they supply electrical energy without first having to create heat and steam from fossil fuels. Instead, they create the energy directly from a reaction of hydrogen and oxygen to form water. For that reason, they can create energy more efficiently than coal-fired or gas-fired power plants.

16 Dec 2013

Researchers Collect First Direct Evidence Showing How Microbubbles Cause Blood Clot's Demise

Ultrasound-stimulated microbubbles have been showing promise in recent years as a non-invasive way to break up dangerous blood clots. But though many researchers have studied the effectiveness of this technique, not much was understood about why it works. Now a team of researchers in Toronto has collected the first direct evidence showing how these wiggling microbubbles cause a blood clot's demise. The team's findings are featured in the AIP Publishing journal Applied Physics Letters.

16 Dec 2013

Graphene Research by University of Manchester Scientist Included in 2013 Top 10 Physics Breakthroughs

Research by a University of Manchester scientist has been included in the top 10 breakthroughs in physics in 2013, as judged by Physics World magazine.

16 Dec 2013

Tekmira Receives Clearance to Use More Potent Formulation in TKM-Ebola Phase I Trial

Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corporation, a leading developer of RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutics, today announced it has received clearance to proceed with the use of a more potent formulation in its TKM-Ebola Phase I clinical trial, which is expected to begin enrolling patients early next year.

16 Dec 2013

Study Provides New Insights into Nanoscale Friction

In collaboration with the University of Basel, an international team of researchers has observed a strong energy loss caused by frictional effects in the vicinity of charge density waves. This may have practical significance in the control of nanoscale friction. The results have been published in the scientific journal Nature Materials.

16 Dec 2013

New Method to Quickly Generate Hydrogen from Water Using Light and Nanoparticles

Researchers from the University of Houston have found a catalyst that can quickly generate hydrogen from water using sunlight, potentially creating a clean and renewable source of energy.

16 Dec 2013

Researchers Develop Deicing Solution Using Graphene Nanoribbons to Protect Radars

Ribbons of ultrathin graphene combined with polyurethane paint meant for cars is just right for deicing sensitive military radar domes, according to scientists at Rice University.

16 Dec 2013

New Approach to Make Long, Structurally Well-Defined Graphene Ribbons

University of Manchester scientists have helped demonstrate that long, structurally well-defined ribbons of graphene can be made.

16 Dec 2013

New White Paper from +Plastic Electronics Examines Market for "Smart Watches"

Forget iPhones and tablets. The latest product shaking up the consumer electronics market is the smart watch, most notably the Samsung Galaxy Gear smart watch, released this September. Having been building steadily since...

16 Dec 2013

Northeastern University Graphene Researcher Honored with NSF Career Award

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Swastik Kar who has received an NSF Career Award.

13 Dec 2013

Nanotech Advances Will Transform the World

Scientists working on a nanotechnology initiative that involves more than two dozen government agencies say that tiny is poised to be the titan of future technologies. The National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI), which also is engaging industry, academic partners and international participants, aims at moving discoveries from the laboratory into products that benefit both the military and public.

13 Dec 2013

Georgia State University Creates Center for Nano-Optics

The Center for Nano-Optics, a research center whose focus on the science of developing tools and instruments as small as 1,000 times thinner than a human hair could lead to major breakthroughs in technology and biomedicine, has been created at Georgia State University.

13 Dec 2013

New Review of Photonic, Phononic and Phoxonics Research Published in Advanced Materials

Strategies to manipulate light and sound go back to the first spherical glass bead and the pounding of the first hollow log. But their full potential is only just becoming apparent, according to a review by materials scientists at Rice University and their colleagues.

13 Dec 2013

Mathematician Awarded START Prize for Project on ‘Partial-Differential-Equations Models for Nanotechnology’

Clemens Heitzinger, assistant professor of applied mathematics in the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, has recently been awarded the prestigious START Prize by the Austrian Science Fund FWF.

13 Dec 2013

FlexTech Alliance Forms Users Groups for Wearable Electronics and Disposable Electronics

From toys and games, freshness sensors, body media, and medical devices to applications in outer space and high speed communications, flexible and printed electronics are changing the ways companies develop advanced products and packages to better serve their customers and gain a competitive advantage.

13 Dec 2013

Nanotechnology News

Scientists Develop Bio-Inspired Nanocatalysts for Fuel Cells

Researchers Collect First Direct Evidence Showing How Microbubbles Cause Blood Clot's Demise

Graphene Research by University of Manchester Scientist Included in 2013 Top 10 Physics Breakthroughs

Tekmira Receives Clearance to Use More Potent Formulation in TKM-Ebola Phase I Trial

Study Provides New Insights into Nanoscale Friction

New Method to Quickly Generate Hydrogen from Water Using Light and Nanoparticles

Researchers Develop Deicing Solution Using Graphene Nanoribbons to Protect Radars

New Approach to Make Long, Structurally Well-Defined Graphene Ribbons

New White Paper from +Plastic Electronics Examines Market for "Smart Watches"

Northeastern University Graphene Researcher Honored with NSF Career Award

Nanotech Advances Will Transform the World

Georgia State University Creates Center for Nano-Optics

New Review of Photonic, Phononic and Phoxonics Research Published in Advanced Materials

Mathematician Awarded START Prize for Project on ‘Partial-Differential-Equations Models for Nanotechnology’

FlexTech Alliance Forms Users Groups for Wearable Electronics and Disposable Electronics

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