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TN-SCORE Creates Innovative Ideas for Nano-Catalysts Designed for Economical Chemical Production

For the last five years, scientists and engineers at Vanderbilt University have been collaborating closely with colleagues at other public and private universities and research centers throughout Tennessee in an effort to increase the state? energy research capacity.

25 Jun 2015

Multifunctional Nanohybrid Materials Can Play an Important Role in Noninvasive Cancer Diagnosis

Various diagnostic imaging techniques are currently used for clinical imaging/disease diagnosis.

25 Jun 2015

Tailored Light Can Help Analyze Individual Nanostructures

By adapting a mode of the light field to a system under study, the interaction of light with matter can be optimized. In this context, the spatial distribution of the electric field of such a tailored mode plays an important role.

25 Jun 2015

Better Understanding of How Heat is Transported through Nanometer-Scale Materials

A growing interest in thermoelectric materials ?which convert waste heat to electricity ?and pressure to improve heat transfer from increasingly powerful microelectronic devices have led to improved theoretical and experimental understanding of how heat is transported through nanometer-scale materials.

25 Jun 2015

New Versatile Technique to Rapidly Create Nano-Structured Grids for Functional Materials

Down at the nanoscale, where objects span just billionths of a meter, the size and shape of a material can often have surprising and powerful electronic and optical effects. Building larger materials that retain subtle nanoscale features is an ongoing challenge that shapes countless emerging technologies.

25 Jun 2015

Graphene Week 2015: Graphene and 2D Technologies Hold Biggest Promise for Industrial Applications

Scientists must focus on graphene and 2D technologies that hold the biggest promise in terms of industrial applications, conference delegates told.

24 Jun 2015

New Method to See Inside Supercapacitors at the Atomic Level

Researchers from the University of Cambridge, together with French collaborators based in Toulouse, have developed a new method to see inside battery-like devices known as supercapacitors at the atomic level. The new method could be used in order to optimise and improve the devices for real-world applications, including electric cars, where they can be used alongside batteries to enhance a vehicle’s performance.

24 Jun 2015

Nano-Packaged Drug Can Halt and Reverse Progression of Atherosclerosis in Rodents

In what may be a major leap forward in the quest for new treatments of the most common form of cardiovascular disease, scientists at Johns Hopkins report they have found a way to halt and reverse the progression of atherosclerosis in rodents by loading microscopic nanoparticles with a chemical that restores the animals' ability to properly handle cholesterol.

24 Jun 2015

Inkjet Technology for Printing Electronic Nanomaterials onto Flexible Substrates

Researchers at Binghamton University are focusing on printed electronics: using inkjet technology to print electronic nanomaterials onto flexible substrates. When compared to traditional methods used in microelectronics fabrication, the new technology conserves material and is more environmentally friendly.

23 Jun 2015

Quantum Effect Found in Atomically Thin Diode

Researchers at Penn State, UT-Dallas, Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, have found that a novel quantum mechanical transport phenomenon demonstrated at room temperature in an atomically thin layered material could help develop new nanoelectronic devices and circuits.

23 Jun 2015

Nanomaterials News

TN-SCORE Creates Innovative Ideas for Nano-Catalysts Designed for Economical Chemical Production

Multifunctional Nanohybrid Materials Can Play an Important Role in Noninvasive Cancer Diagnosis

Tailored Light Can Help Analyze Individual Nanostructures

Better Understanding of How Heat is Transported through Nanometer-Scale Materials

New Versatile Technique to Rapidly Create Nano-Structured Grids for Functional Materials

Graphene Week 2015: Graphene and 2D Technologies Hold Biggest Promise for Industrial Applications

New Method to See Inside Supercapacitors at the Atomic Level

Nano-Packaged Drug Can Halt and Reverse Progression of Atherosclerosis in Rodents

Inkjet Technology for Printing Electronic Nanomaterials onto Flexible Substrates

Quantum Effect Found in Atomically Thin Diode

Cigarette Waste as a Source for Sustainable Supercapacitors

Laser-Induced Graphene for Printable and Biomedical Applications

Co-Solvent-Driven Laser Assembly of Gold Nanorods

Novel Technique Dramatically Increases Graphene's Elasticity

Nanotubes Stabilize Carbyne, Paving Way for Advanced Electronics

Breaking Barriers in Thin-Film Deposition with ATLANT 3D’s DALP Technology

Overcoming Nanogold Production Challenges

Electrospinning and the Future of Nanotechnology

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