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TUM Scientists Use Nanostructures to Protect Mortar from Moisture

Moisture can destroy mortar over time – for example when cracks form as a result of frost. A team of scientists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has found an unusual way to protect mortar from moisture: When the material is being mixed, they add a biofilm – a soft, moist substance produced by bacteria.

26 Jul 2016

Nanoparticles Could be Used to Target Bone Cancers in Large Mammals

At the University of Illinois, an engineer teamed up with a veterinarian to test a bone cancer drug delivery system in animals bigger than the standard animal model, the mouse. They chose dogs – mammals closer in size and biology to humans – with naturally occurring bone cancers, which also are a lot like human bone tumors.

26 Jul 2016

Scientists Use Hydrophobic Membrane with Nanopores to Develop New Energy Storage Systems

Storing fluctuating and delivering stable electric power supply are central issues when using energy from solar plants or wind power stations. Here, efficient and flexible energy storage systems need to accommodate for fluctuations in energy gain.

25 Jul 2016

Minuscule Rubies and Diamonds Improve Imaging at the Nanoscale

Recent research has discovered that tiny rubies and diamonds could be the ideal nanomaterials for researchers focusing on exploring molecular and cellular processes inside the living body.

22 Jul 2016

New Chemical Reaction for Synthesis of Nanostructures for Technological Applications

A new chemical reaction to aid the synthesis of low-dimensional polymers that can be rationalized as phthalocyanine derivatives was recently developed by a collaborative team of researchers.

21 Jul 2016

Carbon Nanospheres Overcome Electron Spin Decoherence

Monitoring electron spins for a prolonged time period poses to be a major barrier in quantum computing. Scientists from EPFL have discovered the possibility of carbon nanospheres to overcome such barriers, even at room temperature.

21 Jul 2016

New Method Provides Scope for Improved Dye Removal

A versatile, new method of using laser-induced design to synthesize silver-based hybrid nano-particles has been developed by scientists in China. The research illustrates that the nano-composite has the potential to be an efficient adsorbent for affordable water purification and dye removal.

20 Jul 2016

World’s Smallest Hard Disk Created by Scientists

Data that amounts to a billion gigabytes is created in today’s world on a daily basis. In order to store data of this volume, it is essential that the space taken by each and every bit is as small as possible.

19 Jul 2016

Researchers Describe New Process for Creating Super Elastic 3-D Printed Metallic Nanostructured Materials

For years, scientists and engineers have synthesized materials at the nanoscale level to take advantage of their mechanical, optical, and energy properties, but efforts to scale these materials to larger sizes have resulted in diminished performance and structural integrity.

19 Jul 2016

Heterostructures Made of 2D Materials and Graphene Could be Used to Detect Low-Energy Photons

In a recent work published in Nature Communications, the research group led by ICREA Professor at ICFO Frank Koppens demonstrate a novel way to detect low-energy photons using vertical heterostructures made by stacking graphene and other 2D semiconducting materials.

19 Jul 2016