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Scientists Explain Why Lifetime of Polaritons in Lowest Lying Energy State is Longer

Light and matter can be so strongly linked that their characteristics become indistinguishable. These light-matter couplings are referred to as polaritons. Their energy oscillates continuously between both systems, giving rise to attractive new physical phenomena.

6 Feb 2015

Researchers Develop Anisotropic Hydrogel Using Electrostatic Repulsion Between Nanosheets

The joint research group led by Takuzo Aida, director, Emergent Soft Matter Function Research Group, Center for Emergent Matter Science, RIKEN (also a professor at the School of Engineering, University of Tokyo), Yasuhiro Ishida, leader, Emergent Bioinspired Soft Matter Research Team, RIKEN, and Takayoshi Sasaki, fellow, International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, NIMS, successfully developed a material that expresses a unique mechanical property by arranging oxide nanosheets, that electrostatically repel each other, in the direction perpendicular to a magnetic field, and by confining a three-dimensional nano-network structure in a water-swollen gel material, hydrogel.

5 Feb 2015

UT Austin Researchers Create First Transistors Made of Silicene

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin's Cockrell School of Engineering have created the first transistors made of silicene, the world’s thinnest silicon material. Their research holds the promise of building dramatically faster, smaller and more efficient computer chips.

4 Feb 2015

Researchers Review Potential of Graphene and Related Materials in Energy Sector

Graphene has many potential applications, among them energy generation, conversion and storage. Graphene – a single layer of carbon atoms – and related two-dimensional crystals combine high electrical conductivity with physical flexibility and a huge surface to weight ratio. Such qualities make them suitable for storing electric charge in batteries and supercapacitors, and as catalysts in solar and fuel-cell electrodes.

4 Feb 2015

Shandong and Rice Universities Celebrate Opening of Joint Center for Carbon Nanomaterials

Scientists from Rice University and Shandong University, China, celebrated the opening of the Joint Center for Carbon Nanomaterials, a collaborative facility to study nanotechnology, on Feb. 1.

4 Feb 2015

Single Process Enhances Performance of Thermoelectric Nanowires

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have stated that improved materials for nanowires, as well as better techniques to manufacture them, could lead to development of devices with better efficiency to cool computer chips and would also enable harvesting of heat of exhaust systems in automobiles.

From Sandia National Laboratories 4 Feb 2015

Selective Creation of Magnetic Nanovortices Using Magnetic Fields

"With the help of magnetic fields, we can selectively create the magnetic nanovortices, then give them a shove so that they are deflected out of their equilibrium position", explains Dr. Felix Büttner, who pursued this research as his Ph.D. project. "We were then able to very precisely track how these skyrmions, as these special nanovortices are called, return to their rest position", Büttner explains further.

3 Feb 2015

Lowly Roundworm Helps Measure Toxicity of Nanoparticles

The lowly roundworm is the star of an ambitious Rice University project to measure the toxicity of nanoparticles.

3 Feb 2015

EaglePicher Inks License Agreement for OneD Material's Silicon-Nanowire-Based Anode Material, SiNANOde

EaglePicher Technologies, LLC announced that it has entered into a License Agreement and an Engineering Services Agreement with OneD Material, to set up a new EaglePicher production facility in Joplin to produce SiNANOde™, a silicon-nanowire-based anode material for building lithium ion cells and batteries providing higher energy densities.

31 Jan 2015

Engineers Leading Advanced Computer Chip R&D at SUNY Poly to Become Part of IBM Research

IBM and SUNY Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly) today announced that more than 220 engineers and scientists who lead IBM’s advanced chip research and development efforts at SUNY Poly’s Albany Nanotech campus will become part of IBM Research, the technology industry’s largest and most influential research organization.   

From College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, University at Albany 31 Jan 2015

Nanomaterials News

Scientists Explain Why Lifetime of Polaritons in Lowest Lying Energy State is Longer

Researchers Develop Anisotropic Hydrogel Using Electrostatic Repulsion Between Nanosheets

UT Austin Researchers Create First Transistors Made of Silicene

Researchers Review Potential of Graphene and Related Materials in Energy Sector

Shandong and Rice Universities Celebrate Opening of Joint Center for Carbon Nanomaterials

Single Process Enhances Performance of Thermoelectric Nanowires

Selective Creation of Magnetic Nanovortices Using Magnetic Fields

Lowly Roundworm Helps Measure Toxicity of Nanoparticles

EaglePicher Inks License Agreement for OneD Material's Silicon-Nanowire-Based Anode Material, SiNANOde

Engineers Leading Advanced Computer Chip R&D at SUNY Poly to Become Part of IBM Research

New Study Finds Electrons Flow Like Liquid in Graphene, Breaking Rules

Research Boosts Graphene’s Potential to Unprecedented Heights

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