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Battelle Honors Brookhaven Physicist with ‘Inventor of the Year" Award for Nanostructured Material Research

Charles T. Black, a physicist developing new ways to engineer materials for energy applications at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, is being honored as an "Inventor of the Year" by Battelle—the global science and technology organization that, together with Stony Brook University, manages Brookhaven Lab through the company Brookhaven Science Associates.

From Brookhaven National Laboratory 6 May 2014

Novel Metamaterials Can Shield Objects from View by Infrared Sensors

A specially formed material that can provide custom broadband absorption in the infrared can be identified and manufactured using "genetic algorithms," according to Penn State engineers, who say these metamaterials can shield objects from view by infrared sensors, protect instruments and be manufactured to cover a variety of wavelengths. "The metamaterial has a high absorption over broad bandwidth," said Jeremy A. Bossard, postdoctoral fellow in electrical engineering.

6 May 2014

Distribution of Dopant Influences Properties of Semiconductor Nanocrystals

The icing on the cake for semiconductor nanocrystals that provide a non-damped optoelectronic effect may exist as a layer of tin that segregates near the surface.

5 May 2014

Researchers Receive Funding to Explore Ways to Improve Heart Disease Treatment Using Nanoparticles

A study to investigate how nanoparticles could be used to improve the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease has received £3 million funding.

2 May 2014

Global Industry Analysis Report on Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "The Global Market for Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles" report to their offering.

From Research and Markets 2 May 2014

Versarien Closes Acquisition of Graphene Start-up Company, 2-Dtech

The University of Manchester is pleased to announce that the acquisition, by Versarien plc, of 85% of the shares in its graphene subsidiary, 2-DTech Limited, has today completed.

2 May 2014

New Technique to Rapidly Synthesize Large-Area Bernal Stacked Bilayer Graphene Films

Researchers at University of California, Santa Barbara, in collaboration with Rice University, have recently demonstrated a rapid synthesis technique for large-area Bernal (or AB) stacked bilayer graphene films that can open up new pathways for digital electronics and transparent conductor applications.

2 May 2014

Researchers Find Way to Change Crystal Structure of Graphene

A University of Arizona-led team of physicists has discovered how to change the crystal structure of graphene, more commonly known as pencil lead, with an electric field, an important step toward the possible use of graphene in microprocessors that would be smaller and faster than current, silicon-based technology.

2 May 2014

Researchers Study Contacts of Carbon Nanostructures with Atoms of Different Chemical Nature

Carbon-based nanostructures such as nanotubes, graphene sheets, and nanoribbons are unique building blocks showing versatile nanomechanical and nanoelectronic properties. These materials which are ordered in the nanoscale, that is, in the dimension of a millionth of millimetre, are promising candidates to envision applications in nanoscale devices, ranging from energy conversion to nano-electronic transistors.

2 May 2014