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Nanocrystalline Silicon Membranes Help Shrink the Power Source for Chip-Sized Electroosmotic Pumps

The ability to shrink laboratory-scale processes to automated chip-sized systems would revolutionize biotechnology and medicine. For example, inexpensive and highly portable devices that process blood samples to detect biological agents such as anthrax are needed by the U.S. military and for homeland security efforts.

29 Oct 2013

Jammed Nanoparticles Help Trap and Control One Liquid Within Another

Sharp observation by doctoral student Mengmeng Cui in Thomas Russell’s polymer science and engineering laboratory at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently led her to discover how to kinetically trap and control one liquid within another, locking and separating them in a stable system over long periods, with the ability to tailor and manipulate the shapes and flow characteristics of each.

28 Oct 2013

Finely Tuned Gold Nanoparticles Can Recycle Carbon Dioxide

By tuning gold nanoparticles to just the right size, researchers from Brown University have developed a catalyst that selectively converts carbon dioxide (CO2) to carbon monoxide (CO), an active carbon molecule that can be used to make alternative fuels and commodity chemicals.

28 Oct 2013

Researchers Develop Efficient Electrocatalyst Made From Nanowires for Hydrogen Production

Hydrogen is used as an energy source in fuel cells and can be produced from water by using sunlight and a suitable catalyst. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, American researchers have now introduced a new electrocatalyst consisting of a conductive network of core-shell nanowires that is just as efficient as conventional metal oxide films on indium tin oxide (ITO) and a great deal more transparent and robust.

28 Oct 2013

EUREKA Grant to Develop Light Activated Nanoparticles for Imaging Live Brain Tissue

University of Massachusetts Medical School Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology Gang Han, PhD, has received a $1.3 million EUREKA (Exceptional Unconventional Research Enabling Knowledge Acceleration) grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to develop light activated nanoparticles that can be used to image live brain tissue.

25 Oct 2013

Researchers Trap Liquids into Useful Shapes Using Nanoparticles

25 Oct 2013

Canatu to Launch New Carbon NanoBud Material-Based Transparent Conductive Films

Canatu will be launching its new Generation 5 product family of CNB™ transparent conductive films for touch sensors, paving the way for high-contrast touch displays and revolutionary printed, flexible, foldable and 3D-shaped touch-enabled electronics products.

From Canatu 24 Oct 2013

New Way to Sneak Nanoparticles into Tumor Cells for More Effective Therapy

Some of the most dangerous cancers are those that can outmaneuver the very drugs designed to defeat them, but researchers are now reporting a new Trojan-horse approach. In a preliminary study in the journal ACS Nano focusing on a type of breast cancer that is highly resistant to current therapies, they describe a way to sneak small particles into tumor cells, lower their defenses and attack them with drugs, potentially making the therapy much more effective.

From American Chemical Society 24 Oct 2013

New Project to Develop ALD Materials and Tools for High-Density 3D Integrated Capacitors

CEA-Leti, Fraunhofer IPMS-CNT and three European SMEs, IPDiA, Picosun and SENTECH Instruments, have launched a project to industrialize 3D integrated capacitors with world-record density.

From CEA-Leti 24 Oct 2013

New Report Analyzes Market Opportunities for Quantum Dots in Lighting and Displays

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Market Opportunities for Quantum Dots in Lighting and Displays 2013" report to their offering.

From Research and Markets 24 Oct 2013