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Therapon Develops New Nanoparticles with UV Protection in 5,000 SPF Range

Therapon's R & D team has developed UV radiation absorbing silicon particle based on quantum physics properties.

26 Sep 2016

Scientists Produce Rings and Chains of Gold Nanoparticles

A team of researchers at the Nanoscience Center of the University of Jyväskylä in Finland have successfully produced rings and short chains of gold nanoparticles with unparalleled precision.

23 Sep 2016

Bioengineering Professor Wins Materials Today Embracing Challenge Award for Research in Nanomaterials

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, has announced that Professor Kytai Nguyen is the winner of the first Materials Today Embracing Challenge Award.

22 Sep 2016

Innovative Screen-Printing Process Allows Direct Conversion of Nanocrystals into Flexible Thermoelectric Devices

What if you could easily print a thin layer of material – for use anywhere – that would allow you to create flexible energy harvesters or coolers? That may soon be a reality.

21 Sep 2016

Scientists Propose Using Nanoscale Tetrapods to Provide Early Warning of Material’s Failure

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley have proposed that four-armed, light-emitting nanocrystals could soon serve as the foundation of an early warning system in structural materials by revealing microscopic cracks that indicate failure.

20 Sep 2016

Nickel, Graphene Serve as Promising New Material for Flexible Electronics Devices

In a new computational study published in The Journal of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society, University of Arkansas engineering researchers found that nanocomposites composed of layers of nickel and graphene — a promising new material for flexible electronics devices — can be tuned for optimal fracture strength by manipulating the structural arrangement of the graphene sheets.

20 Sep 2016

Researchers Develop New Hybrid Nanoparticle by Combining Gold and Rust Nanoparticles

Researchers from the University of Georgia are giving new meaning to the phrase “turning rust into gold”—and making the use of gold in research settings and industrial applications far more affordable.

16 Sep 2016

High-Capacity Nanoparticle for Potential Use in Targeted Cancer Therapy

Nanoparticles provide a promising way to deliver cancer drugs in a targeted manner, which help to kill the cancer cells without affecting the healthy tissue. The downside is that a most of the nanoparticles previously developed are only capable of carrying one or two drugs.

16 Sep 2016

Reduced Graphene Oxide, Graphene Oxide and Graphene Integrated onto Silicon Substrates

A method that helps to integrate reduced graphene oxide (rGO), graphene oxide (GO) and graphene onto silicon substrates at room temperature using nanosecond pulsed laser annealing has been developed by materials researchers at North Carolina State University.

14 Sep 2016

New Energy Generating Fabric Uses Wind and Sun to Power Devices

Textiles capable of producing electricity from physical movement have been known for a while. A team of researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology have gone a step further and created a fabric that can concurrently harvest energy using both motion and sunshine.

14 Sep 2016

Nanomaterials News

Therapon Develops New Nanoparticles with UV Protection in 5,000 SPF Range

Scientists Produce Rings and Chains of Gold Nanoparticles

Bioengineering Professor Wins Materials Today Embracing Challenge Award for Research in Nanomaterials

Innovative Screen-Printing Process Allows Direct Conversion of Nanocrystals into Flexible Thermoelectric Devices

Scientists Propose Using Nanoscale Tetrapods to Provide Early Warning of Material’s Failure

Nickel, Graphene Serve as Promising New Material for Flexible Electronics Devices

Researchers Develop New Hybrid Nanoparticle by Combining Gold and Rust Nanoparticles

High-Capacity Nanoparticle for Potential Use in Targeted Cancer Therapy

Reduced Graphene Oxide, Graphene Oxide and Graphene Integrated onto Silicon Substrates

New Energy Generating Fabric Uses Wind and Sun to Power Devices

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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