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Researchers Figure out How to Synthesize Zigzag Carbon Nanotubes

The existing technique for manufacturing carbon nanotubes—typically wrapped sheets of graphene—is not capable of enabling total control over their length, diameter, and type.

2 Apr 2021

Novel Automatic Process Enables More Accurate Assessment of Nanofiber Fabrication

Nanofibers, which are imbued with unique mechanical, electric, and other physical properties because of their small size, are regarded as the cutting-edge technology in water quality control, clean energy, and biomedical engineering, among others.

25 Mar 2021

Crisscross Polymerization Approach for Seeded All-or-Nothing Assembly of Micron-Scale DNA Nanostructures

A team of nanobiotechnologists at Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) led by Wyss Founding Core Faculty member William Shih, Ph.D., has devised a programmable DNA self-assembly strategy that solves the key challenge of robust nucleation control and paves the way for applications such as ultrasensitive diagnostic biomarker detection and scalable fabrication of micrometer-sized structures with nanometer-sized features.

23 Mar 2021

Research Shows Promise of Acoustic Plasmons for Graphene-Based Optoelectronics Applications

KAIST researchers and their collaborators at home and abroad have successfully demonstrated a new methodology for direct near-field optical imaging of acoustic graphene plasmon fields.

17 Mar 2021

3D-Nanoprinting Technology Helps Fabricate Optical Perceptrons

Intelligent holographic nanostructures on CMOS sensors for energy-efficient AI security schemes

5 Mar 2021

Silver Nanowires Coated with a Compact Gold Shell for Improved Electrochromic Devices

The team of Professor Dongling Ma of the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) developed a new approach for foldable and solid devices.

23 Feb 2021

Novel Nanotechnologies Could Help Reduce Friction in Various Mechanisms

Researchers from the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI and Immanuel Kant Baltic State Federal University (BFU) have proposed the use of novel thin films to drastically minimize friction to enhance the durability of surfaces in mechanisms.

17 Feb 2021

Nanocomposite-Based Method to Create Highly Efficient Solar Cells

A new technique to develop unique solar cells could considerably enhance their efficiency.

3 Feb 2021

Rice Chemists Refine the Process of Preparing 2D Nanoflakes

Just a little soap helps clean up the challenging process of preparing two-dimensional hexagonal boron nitride (hBN).

28 Jan 2021

New Way to Customize Metallic Grain Structures of Nanoparticles

Metallurgists have developed different methods to make a chunk of metal harder than before. They can twist it, bend it, pound it with a hammer, or send it between two rollers.

25 Jan 2021

Nanofabrication News

Researchers Figure out How to Synthesize Zigzag Carbon Nanotubes

Novel Automatic Process Enables More Accurate Assessment of Nanofiber Fabrication

Crisscross Polymerization Approach for Seeded All-or-Nothing Assembly of Micron-Scale DNA Nanostructures

Research Shows Promise of Acoustic Plasmons for Graphene-Based Optoelectronics Applications

3D-Nanoprinting Technology Helps Fabricate Optical Perceptrons

Silver Nanowires Coated with a Compact Gold Shell for Improved Electrochromic Devices

Novel Nanotechnologies Could Help Reduce Friction in Various Mechanisms

Nanocomposite-Based Method to Create Highly Efficient Solar Cells

Rice Chemists Refine the Process of Preparing 2D Nanoflakes

New Way to Customize Metallic Grain Structures of Nanoparticles

Novel Semiconductor Born from Graphene and Glass

Biodegradable Polymers for Targeted Body Heating

Novel Liquid Crystal Process Unlocks High-Purity Carbon Nanotubes for Motor Applications

3D SiOx-Embedded Porous Carbon Nanofiber Hosts for Dendrite-Free Lithium Batteries

Rapid Biomimetic Nanovaccine for Personalized Cancer Therapy

PiFM and its Role in Nanoscale Chemical Imaging

Conversations on AFM: How AI is Automating Scanning Probe Microscopy

Breaking Barriers in Thin-Film Deposition with ATLANT 3D’s DALP Technology

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