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New Process for Two-Sided Nanomaterials May Benefit Energy and Information Technologies

A team led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory used a simple process to implant atoms precisely into the top layers of ultra-thin crystals, yielding two-sided structures with different chemical compositions.

29 Jun 2020

Picosun’s Medical ALD Solutions Ensure Excellent Hermetic Encapsulation

Picosun Group reports excellent results in ALD-organic bilayer encapsulation of metal electrodes for neuroprosthetics and bioelectronic medicine. Group also reports superior hermetic barrier performance of its ALD nanolaminates against corrosive ion diffusion in aqueous media. This is an important result for medical ALD applications and implantology, where metal components and sensitive microelectronics need to be protected against corrosion caused by human body fluids.

From Picosun Oy 29 Jun 2020

Study Shows How Magnet Nanoparticles Affect Cancer Cells in the Human Liver

Scientists from the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (IKBFU) and National University of Science and Technology "MISiS" have studied how magnet nanoparticles affect cancer cells in the human liver.

26 Jun 2020

Gold Nanoparticles can Reduce Neuronal Cell Death

Gold nanoparticles have been developed in the laboratory in order to reduce the cell death of neurons exposed to overexcitement.

26 Jun 2020

Scientists Use Graphene-Metal System to Acquire Molecular "Fingerprints”

Scientists from the Center for Photonics and 2D Materials of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, the University of Oviedo, Donostia International Physics Center, and CIC nanoGUNE have proposed a new way to study the properties of individual organic molecules and nanolayers of molecules.

26 Jun 2020

New Nanostructure may Shed Light on Chemical Bonding Behavior of Boron Lanthanides

The discovery of carbon nanostructures like two-dimensional graphene and soccer ball-shaped buckyballs helped to launch a nanotechnology revolution.

26 Jun 2020

Researchers Develop New Mechanism to Obtain Metal “Nanoscrews”

Led by the Ikerbasque professor Luis Liz-Marzán, researchers at the Centre for Cooperative Research in Biomaterials CIC biomaGUNE have developed a mechanism by which gold atoms are deposited by means of chemical reduction onto previously formed gold nanorods to produce a quasi-helicoidal structure.

26 Jun 2020

Fight Against COVID-19: Piezo Transducers for Ultrasonic Metering in Intensive Care Devices

Medical staffs around the world have experienced physical demands unknown to most during the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in adaptation and processes improvement during this global medical crisis.

From Physik Instrumente (PI) GmbH & Co KG 25 Jun 2020

Novel Nano-Catalyst for Use as Anode Material in Direct Ethanol Fuel Cell

Scientists working at the Department for Functional Nanomaterials at the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences designed and synthesized a functional ternary Pt/Re/SnO2/C catalyst as an anode material in a direct ethanol fuel cell.

25 Jun 2020

New Method to Make 3D Heterostructures and Nanoscale Quantum Materials

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory and their collaborators from Iowa State University have developed a new approach for generating layered, difficult-to-combine, heterostructured solids.

24 Jun 2020