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Innovative Material Holds Potential to Develop High-Performance Supercapacitors

Taking a significant step toward improving the power delivery of systems ranging from urban electrical grids to regenerative braking in hybrid vehicles, researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have synthesized a material that shows high capability for both the rapid storage and release of energy.

From University of California, Los Angeles 15 Apr 2013

Technology Briefing and Scouting Report on Silicene, Graphyne, Graphdiyne and Graphane

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Silicene, Graphyne, Graphdiyne and Graphane - A Technology Briefing and Scouting Report that Looks Beyond Graphene" report to their offering.

From Research and Markets 15 Apr 2013

Researchers Announce Progress in Developing Room Temperature Operable Low-Power Nanolasers

Nanolasers could potentially provide the next big breakthrough to make computers and similar technologies operate faster and more reliably.

From Arizona State University 15 Apr 2013

New Microfluidic Device Shows Promise to Help Manufacturers Save Money

A new procedure that thickens and thins fluid at the micron level could save consumers and manufacturers money, particularly for soap products that depend on certain molecules to effectively deal with grease and dirt. Researchers at the University of Washington published their findings online April 9 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

15 Apr 2013

AMG Acquires Patented Wear and Corrosion Resistance Nitriding Technology

AMG Advanced Metallurgical Group N.V.'s ("AMG", EURONEXT AMSTERDAM: "AMG") AMG Engineering unit, ALD Vacuum Technologies GmbH ("ALD") announces that it has acquired a patented wear and corrosion resistance nitriding technology that utilizes an active screen plasma nitriding process ("ASPN").

15 Apr 2013

Comprehensive Report on Molybdenum Disulfide

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Molybdenum Disulfide - An Inorganic Analogue of Graphene and other Interesting Inorganic Nanomaterials for the Future" report to their offering.

From Research and Markets 15 Apr 2013

Nanosonics Expands Market Reach for trophon EPR Ultrasound Probe Disinfection System

Nanosonics Limited (ASX:NAN) has expanded the market reach of its ultrasound probe disinfection system, trophon EPR, via a significant increase in the number of probes that have been assessed and certified for use with t...

From Nanosonics 12 Apr 2013

New Nanoscale Courier Shows Promise for Patient-Friendly Cancer Treatment

Cornell researchers have created a pore in “Cornell Dots” – brightly glowing nanoparticles nicknamed C-Dots – that can carry medicine. This new and improved nanoscale courier may help light up cancer cells and provide a new patient-friendly, viable option to battle cancer.

From Cornell University - NanoScale Facility 12 Apr 2013

Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility Helps Researchers Develop Microscopic, Organic Transistors

To make better mind maps, a group of French scientists – building on prototypes developed at the Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility (CNF) – have produced the world’s first microscopic, organic transistors that can amplify and record signals from within the brain itself.

From Cornell University - NanoScale Facility 12 Apr 2013

Innovative Microfluidic Chip Enables Rapid and Accurate Cancer Profiling

Identify the type of cancer for patients with breast cancer in a few minutes. This is the challenge that EPFL researchers successfully met by presenting their new “microfluidic chip.” Their research is written up in the American journal, PNAS.

12 Apr 2013

Nanowires Show Promise to Develop New Generation of Solar Panels

Imagine a solar panel more efficient than today’s best solar panels, but using 10 000 times less material. This is what EPFL researchers expect given recent findings on these tiny filaments called nanowires.

12 Apr 2013

New Technique to Manufacture Nano-Capillary Tubes

EPFL researchers are using the electrical properties of a scanning electron microscope to change the size of glass capillary tubes. Their method has already been patented as it could pave the way to many novel applications.

12 Apr 2013

Indian Researchers Control Shape of Lead Nanoparticles Using Sunbeams

Indian researchers (Theivasanthi and Alagar) have controlled shape of lead nanoparticles by using sunbeams. The group, based at Centre for Research and Post Graduate Department of Physics, Ayya Nadar Janaki Ammal College comments: “To our best knowledge, this is the first demonstration for controlling shape of lead nanopowder (Pb) under the influence of sunbeams.

12 Apr 2013

New Nano-Dosing Technique Enables Reliable and Safe Detection of Interactions Between Drugs

Clinical pharmacologists at Heidelberg University Hospital have achieved major progress for improving the reliability of drugs. In a pharmacological study, they showed for the first time that interactions between drugs can be detected with minute doses in the range of nanograms. However, at these low doses, the drugs are neither effective nor do they have side effects.

12 Apr 2013

Nanotubes and Nanowires Hold Potential for Innovative Applications

Nanowires and nanotubes, slender structures that are only a few billionths of a meter in diameter but many thousands or millions of times longer, have become hot materials in recent years. They exist in many forms — made of metals, semiconductors, insulators and organic compounds — and are being studied for use in electronics, energy conversion, optics and chemical sensing, among other fields.

From Massachusetts Institute of Technology 12 Apr 2013