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Palladium-Platinum Nanoparticles Exhibit Improved Catalytic Activity than Pure Platinum

Researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a new catalyst that could reduce the global reliance on limited, expensive and highly reactive metal, platinum.

6 Jul 2015

Flexible Silver Nanowire-Elastic Mesh for Creating Therapeutic Heat

If you suffer from chronic muscle pain a doctor will likely recommend for you to apply heat to the injury. But how do you effectively wrap that heat around a joint? Korean Scientists at the Center for Nanoparticle Research, Institute for Basic Science (IBS) in Seoul, along with an international team, have come up with an ingenious way of creating therapeutic heat in a light, flexible design.

6 Jul 2015

PSI Researchers Successfully Create 7nm-Wide Parallel Lines in a Semiconductor Material

Researchers reveal how particularly fine structures can be produced in semiconductors for computer chips of the future

6 Jul 2015

Polymer Mold Forms Perfect 3D-Structured Single-Crystal Nanostructures

Polymer engineers from Cornell University have created a novel mold for nanostructures which is capable of forming liquid silicon from organic polymer materials.

6 Jul 2015

OSU Scientists Use Microreactor to Create Silver Nanoparticles at Room Temperature for Printed Electronics

Engineers at Oregon State University have invented a way to fabricate silver, a highly conductive metal, for printed electronics that are produced at room temperature.

3 Jul 2015

RnRMarketResearch.com Offers New Graphene Market Research Reports

RnRMarketResearch.com offers new graphene market research reports titled Global Graphene Industry Report 2015, The Global Market for Graphene to 2025: Market size, production volumes, applications, products, prospects, research and companies as well as Research on Global & China Graphene Industry, 2015 in the materials and chemicals collection of its library.

3 Jul 2015

Moseley Medal and Prize from IOP for Leading Graphene Scientist at University of Manchester

Dr Rahul Raveendran-Nair is the recipient of the 2015 Moseley medal and prize from the Institute of Physics for his outstanding contributions to our understanding of the electrical, optical and structural properties of graphene and its sister compounds.

3 Jul 2015

Premiere of Musical Composition, Graphene Suite by Sara Lowes at Graphene Week 2015

At Graphene Week 2015 in Manchester, delegates and others were treated to the premiere of a musical suite by Sara Lowes, composer-in-residence at the National Graphene Institute. Sara? Graphene Suite was commissioned by Brighter Sound, a Manchester-based producer of creative music projects and other cultural events.

3 Jul 2015

New Technique to Create Graphene Film for Micro-Supercapacitors

There was a time during the early development of portable electronics when the biggest hurdle to overcome was making the device small enough to be considered portable.

2 Jul 2015

New Bio-Inspired Zeolite Catalyst Enables Effective Methane Conversion

A new bio-inspired zeolite catalyst, developed by an international team with researchers from Technische Universit?M¿nchen (TUM), Eindhoven University of Technology and University of Amsterdam, might pave the way to small scale 'gas-to-liquid' technologies converting natural gas to fuels and starting materials for the chemical industry.

2 Jul 2015