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Low-Temperature Method to Make High-Performance Thermoelectric Materials

A low-cost nanomaterial created at KAUST could be used to recapture some of the enormous amounts of waste heat that devices and machines emit.

28 Jun 2019

Making Music from Proteins (Video)

Composers string notes of different pitch and duration together to create music. Similarly, cells join amino acids with different characteristics together to make proteins.

27 Jun 2019

Multi-Wavelength Instrument Improves Nanoparticle Analysis Specificity

Analytik has launched the next generation ZetaView® QUATT, with a multi-wavelength video tracking microscope for rapid analysis of size, concentration, fluorescence, electrophoretic mobility and sub-populations of individual nanoparticles.

From Analytik Ltd 24 Jun 2019

Study Illustrates Current Status and Future Prospects of Ice Lithography

Nanofabrication facilitates nanoscience and nanotechnology. One of the founding stones of nanofabrication is electron-beam lithography (EBL), which involves making patterns down to a few nanometers.

24 Jun 2019

Advanced NMR Exposes New Facts About Nanoparticle Structures

At the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, advanced nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) methods have exposed unexpected details about the structure of a core group of materials in nanotechnology — mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) — and the placement of their active chemical sites.

21 Jun 2019

Preventing Corrosion of Oil Pipeline by Identifying a Nanoscale Problem

Steel pipes tend to rust and sooner or later fail. To anticipate disasters, oil companies and others have developed computer models to foretell when replacement is necessary.

7 Jun 2019

Researchers Successfully Record Previously Unexplained Behavior of Hydrogel Microspheres

Scientists at Shinshu University have succeeded in recording earlier unsolved behavior of hydrogel microspheres (microgels) with the help of a newly tailored tool: the temperature-controlled high-speed atomic force microscopy (TC HS AFM).

31 May 2019

Researchers Discover Molecular Nanomachines with High Efficiency and Low Energy Loss

In every person, there are trillions of very small molecular nanomachines carrying out various essential tasks to keep the person alive.

23 May 2019

New Technology Images Molecules in 3D

Engineering researchers have developed a new platform that can image single molecules in 3D, allowing deeper probes into the inner workings of cells.

22 May 2019

Minute Droplets Pave Way to In-Flight Imaging of Proteins

For the first time, scientists have shown the creation of a beam of nanodroplets that can deliver a range of biological samples, from cell organelles to single proteins, nearly free from any contaminations, to the focus of an X-ray laser which can be employed to image them.

6 May 2019