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Magnetothermal Multiplexing of Nanomaterials Holds Promise for Targeted Drug Delivery

Magnetic nanoparticles don’t have to be "one size fits all." Instead, individual magnetic nanoparticles can be tailored in an array of differing sizes and compositions to allow for heating them separately by varying the frequency and amplitude of an external alternating magnetic field, MIT graduate student Michael G. Christiansen and colleagues show in a recent Applied Physics Letters paper.

From Massachusetts Institute of Technology 19 Sep 2014

Biofilms Hold Promise for Designer Nanomaterials to Clean up Polluted Rivers

For most people biofilms conjure up images of slippery stones in a streambed and dirty drains. While there are plenty of "bad" biofilms around – they even cause pesky dental plaque and a host of other more serious medical problems – a team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University sees biofilms as a robust new platform for designer nanomaterials that could clean up polluted rivers, manufacture pharmaceutical products, fabricate new textiles, and more.

19 Sep 2014

Hollow Nanospheres Demonstrate Unprecedented Performance for Batteries

Lithium-ion batteries power our phones, laptops, and many other portable electronic devices. There are limitations inherent in current lithium-ion technology, however, that prevent the batteries from being used more widely in electric vehicles and other high-power applications.

19 Sep 2014

Nanomaterials Developer at Northwestern University Named 2014 MacArthur Fellow

Mark C. Hersam, a Northwestern University materials engineer who teaches the innovators of tomorrow and works across scientific boundaries to create new materials for use in electronics, solar cells and batteries, has been named a 2014 MacArthur Fellow, an honor bestowed with a $625,000 “no conditions” award.

19 Sep 2014

New Report on Functional Materials for Future Electronics

The chemistry of the new electronics and electrics is key to its future, whether it is invisible, tightly rollable, biodegradable, edible, employing the memristor logic of the human brain or possessing any other previously- impossible capability in a manufactured device. De-risking that material development is vital yet the information on which to base that has been unavailable. No more.

18 Sep 2014

Breakthrough Color-Display Technology Uses Aluminum Nanoparticles

The quest to create artificial “squid skin” — camouflaging metamaterials that can “see” colors and automatically blend into the background — is one step closer to reality, thanks to a breakthrough color-display technology unveiled this week by Rice University’s Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP).

16 Sep 2014

Popular Mechanics Features Research on How Gold Nanoparticles Destroy Superbacteria

Dr. Hong Liang's research on how gold nanoparticles can destroy superbacteria in the human body such as Escheria coli and drug-resistant Staphococcus aureus was featured on Popular Mechanics. Liang is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University.

15 Sep 2014