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Tapping Energy Out of Human Movement

Consider wearing a skirt, shirt or jacket that can power personal electronic devices such as fitness tracker, mobile phone and the like while walking, waving or just sitting down.

24 Jul 2017

Researchers Use Probiotics to Develop Metallic Nanoparticles

Probiotics, being live microbes, wield many advantageous health effects on the host cells. Such probiotics are commercially available as foods, dietary supplements, and pharmaceutical formulations.

24 Jul 2017

Metal Nanoparticles Could Boost Efficiency of LEDs and Creation of Invisibility Cloaks

A team of Researchers from the University of Michigan have come up with a new method that peppers metallic nanoparticles into semiconductors. This progress could increase the efficiency of LED lighting by 50 % and even facilitate the creation of invisibility cloaking devices.

20 Jul 2017

NanoGraphene Manufactures Its First Graphene in Sustainable Environmentally Friendly Plant

During the first half of July 2017, NanoGraphene Inc. manufactured its first graphene from its innovative plant newly set up at its unique facility located at Industry City in Brooklyn which is being established as an innovation center.

19 Jul 2017

Researchers Demonstrate that a New Catalyst Material for Electrolyzers is Reliable

Storage technologies that are efficient are considered to be essential if wind and solar energy is to help meet the increased energy demands. One vital approach refers to storage in the form of hydrogen extracted from water by using solar or wind energy.

18 Jul 2017

New Oxygen-Free Alloys Could Increase Performance of Biosensors, Semiconductors

A team of researchers at the University of Connecticut have discovered that decreasing oxygen in certain nanocrystalline materials may enhance their durability and strength at high temperatures, a potential enhancement that could result in faster jet engines, better biosensors, and greater capacity semiconductors.

18 Jul 2017

Scientists Succeed in Coupling Extremely Small Quantum Dot with Trumpet-Shaped Nanowire

Scientists from the Swiss Nanoscience Institute and the University of Basel have carried out successive coupling of an extremely tiny quantum dot with a trumpet-shaped nanowire that is 1,000 times larger.

18 Jul 2017

Pitt Chemical Engineering Researchers Explain the Formation of Metal Nanoparticles

The process of synthesizing nanoparticles is mostly trial and error, even though scientists have been able to synthesize nanoparticles in the lab for decades, and it is still difficult to understand how the formation actually takes place.

11 Jul 2017

Smart Polymer Changes Color and Activates Natural Antimicrobial Enzymes When Bacterial Contamination is Detected

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria that colonize medical equipment and surfaces are causing shocking annual rises in the number of patients becoming infected in clinics and hospitals. Efforts to reduce these numbers are now carried out by a KAUST team through the usage of a smart polymer capable of changing color and activating natural antimicrobial enzymes when bacterial contamination is identified.

10 Jul 2017

Researchers Demonstrate the Phenomena of Shape Memory and Self-Healing in Gold Microparticles

For the very first time, researchers from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and Germany have demonstrated the phenomena of shape memory and self-healing in gold microparticles.

10 Jul 2017

Nanomaterials News

Tapping Energy Out of Human Movement

Researchers Use Probiotics to Develop Metallic Nanoparticles

Metal Nanoparticles Could Boost Efficiency of LEDs and Creation of Invisibility Cloaks

NanoGraphene Manufactures Its First Graphene in Sustainable Environmentally Friendly Plant

Researchers Demonstrate that a New Catalyst Material for Electrolyzers is Reliable

New Oxygen-Free Alloys Could Increase Performance of Biosensors, Semiconductors

Scientists Succeed in Coupling Extremely Small Quantum Dot with Trumpet-Shaped Nanowire

Pitt Chemical Engineering Researchers Explain the Formation of Metal Nanoparticles

Smart Polymer Changes Color and Activates Natural Antimicrobial Enzymes When Bacterial Contamination is Detected

Researchers Demonstrate the Phenomena of Shape Memory and Self-Healing in Gold Microparticles

New Study Finds Electrons Flow Like Liquid in Graphene, Breaking Rules

Research Boosts Graphene’s Potential to Unprecedented Heights

Novel 3D Imaging Technique Captures In Situ Nanoparticle Self-Assembly

Nanoparticles That Boost Tomato Plant Growth

Orange Peel Nanoparticles: New Green Synthesis

Enhancing Slurry Stability in Lithium-Ion Batteries with Turbiscan Technology

PiFM and its Role in Nanoscale Chemical Imaging

Conversations on AFM: How AI is Automating Scanning Probe Microscopy

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