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Nano: Making a Big Deal out of the Very Small

Springer Nature today announces the launch of Nano – a research solution offering highly-indexed and structured information on nanotechnology, drawn from high-impact journals and patents. Nano will be part of the n...

15 Jun 2016

Researchers Use Graphene Sheet to Turn Electricity into Light

Airplanes exceeding the speed of sound create a shockwave that generates a popular “boom” of sound. Recently, a team of researchers from MIT and elsewhere found a similar method in a graphene sheet, where under a specific circumstance, a flow of electric current could surpass the speed of slowed-down light to generate a sort of optical “boom”, which really is a strong, focused beam of light.

15 Jun 2016

Perovskites Nanocrystals Show Potential for Next-Generation LEDs, Solar Cells

Perovskite materials have displayed immense promise for application in futuristic sensors, solar cells, LEDs, and other applications; however, their instability remains a serious limitation.

14 Jun 2016

Researchers Realize Wafer-Scale, High-Yield Synthesis of Suspended Graphene Nanoribbons

Wafer-scale and high yield synthesis has been realized by a team of researchers from Tohoku University. As per the research conducted at Hokkaido University and the University of Tokyo, the comparison of molecular dynamics simulations, experiments and theoretical calculations has illuminated the distinctive growth dynamic.

14 Jun 2016

Application Study Demonstrates Speciation Analysis of Plasma Proteins

Exciting advances in the analysis of plasma proteins using a hyphenated system that couples asymmetric flow Field-Flow Fractionation (AF4) and inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) have been reported by Postnova Analytics.

From Postnova Analytics GmbH 14 Jun 2016

Nanomaterials Researchers Develop Ultrathin Film for Wearable Electronic Devices

An international group of nanomaterials researchers from Korea University and the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) have developed a simple and affordable method to produce an ultrathin film, which is not only transparent, but also highly conductive to electric current.

13 Jun 2016

New Strategy to Decontaminate Polluted Soils Using Nanoparticles and Bioremediation

Researchers at the Basque Institute of Agricultural Research and Development Neiker-Tecnalia are working on a strategy to cure soils polluted by organic compounds containing chlorine (organochlorine compounds). The novel process involves integrating zero-iron nanoparticles in bioremediation methods. The companies Ekotek and Dinam, Gaiker-IK4 and the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country are also taking part in this project called as NANOBIOR.

13 Jun 2016

Diamond-Based Hybrid Nanoparticles Could Improve Next-Generation Technologies

Nanamaterials are capable of enhancing an increasing number of next-generation technologies. They guarantee to increase the speed of computer chips and also increase the resolution of medical imaging devices.

10 Jun 2016

New Design Rule Brings One Step Closer to Nature-Inspired Nanostructures

Researchers should have knowledge about how to refine and use synthetic materials that can tolerate industrial conditions to imitate the natural ability of proteins as catalysts, sensors, etc. A collaboration between researchers and Molecular Foundry staff, led to the discovery of a new design rule that regulates the way by which polymer building blocks combine to form the backbones that run along the length of small biomimetic sheets.

8 Jun 2016

New Findings Pave Way for Employment of Biological Materials in Nanoscale Electron Devices

Although proteins are usually electrically insulating, hair-like nanoscale filaments (called pili) on the surface of Geobacter bacteria exhibit metallic-like conductivity.

8 Jun 2016