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Using 3D Nanoscale Imaging to Unearth the Fractal-Like Nanostructure of Bone

Whether in a heavy elephant or an accelerating cheetah, the performance of bone is equally superior due to its high strength and toughness.

4 May 2018

Researchers Create Controllable Light Source Using Nanodiamond

A research team from ITMO University has created a controlled light source based on nanodiamond for the first time ever. Experiments have demonstrated that diamond shell accelerates the emission speed light sources and helps to regulate them without any extra nano- and microstructures.

3 May 2018

Magnetic Nanoparticles Ready to Progress from Lab to Breast Cancer Clinical Trials

For 15 years, materials chemist Dale Huber from the Sandia National Laboratories has been involved in the challenge of creating iron-based nanoparticles measuring the exact same size.

2 May 2018

Yale-Led Project Prepares Comprehensive Database of Nanomaterials for Materials Designers

Engineered nanomaterials show a lot of potential for medicine, water treatment, electronics, and other fields. But when developed without crucial information about environmental impacts at the beginning of the process, the materials’ long-term effects could destabilize those advances. As a part of a Yale-led project, a team of researchers aim to change that.

2 May 2018

Researchers Optimize Light Absorption Properties of Graphene

Although graphene has various properties—for instance, it is an exceptionally good conductor—it does not have the ability to optimally absorb light. In order to overcome this constraining feature of graphene, which is otherwise an amazing material, physicists chose to embed a graphene sheet within a flat photonic crystal, which efficiently controls the flow of light.

26 Apr 2018

Two-Dimensional Cadmium Telluride Naturally Folds into Nanoscrolls

Researchers from the Faculty of Chemistry and the Faculty of Materials Science, MSU along with foreign colleagues discovered that two-dimensional (2D) sheets of cadmium telluride are capable of naturally folding into nanoscrolls. This effect may be used in photonics and electronics.

25 Apr 2018

Scientists Demonstrate Flexibility of Diamond Nanoscale Needles

A paper published in the Science journal on April 20, 2018, describes an astonishing finding by an international team of researchers that diamond, the hardest known naturally occurring material in the world, is also flexible when formed into nanoscale needles.

23 Apr 2018

Innovative Methodology of Using Water Microdroplets to Produce Gold Nanoparticles

Stanford researchers have found out that an experiment that, by virtue of design, was not expected to give any notable results instead led to a “bewildering” surprise: a new methodology for producing gold nanoparticles and nanowires with the help of water droplets.

23 Apr 2018

Self-Assembling 2D Molecular Nanosheets Expand upon Exposure to Light

The so-called grow monsters or expandable water toys are nothing but plastic-like figurines with the ability to expand upon being placed in water.

20 Apr 2018

Individual Impurity Atoms Successfully Detected in Graphene

A research team has been successful in using atomic force microscopy to attain images of separate impurity atoms in graphene ribbons. As a result of the forces measured in the graphene’s 2D carbon lattice, they could identify nitrogen and boron for the first time.

17 Apr 2018