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HyperSolar’s Low Cost Solar Hydrogen Water-Splitting Technology Produces 1.0 V Open Circuit Voltage

HyperSolar, Inc., the developer of a breakthrough technology to produce renewable hydrogen using sunlight and any source of water, today announced that its artificial photosynthesis technology is now capable of producing 1.0 volt open circuit voltage for use in direct solar hydrogen production.

21 Aug 2013

Novel Nanostructured Holograms Used to Convert Circularly Polarized Laser Light Into Radially Polarized Beams

Applied physicists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have demonstrated that they can change the intensity, phase, and polarization of light rays using a hologram-like design decorated with nanoscale structures.

21 Aug 2013

Drugs Encapsulated in Nanoparticles May Help Treat Wet AMD

Johns Hopkins biomedical engineers have teamed up with clinicians to create a new drug-delivery strategy for a type of central vision loss caused by blood vessel growth at the back of the eye, where such growth should not occur.

20 Aug 2013

Changing Opportunities for Nanosilver-Based Materials in the PV Industry

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Silver in Photovoltaics

20 Aug 2013

Mitochondria-Targeted Nanoparticles to Fight Breast Cancer

Researchers at the University of Georgia are developing a new treatment technique that uses nanoparticles to reprogram immune cells so they are able to recognize and attack cancer. The findings were published recently in the early online edition of ACS Nano.

16 Aug 2013

Continuum-Based Approach Used to Explain Dynamics of Liquid Metal Particles at Nanoscale

Two NJIT researchers have demonstrated that using a continuum-based approach, they can explain the dynamics of liquid metal particles on a substrate of a nanoscale. “Numerical simulation of ejected molten metal nanoparticles liquified by laser irradiation: Interplay of geometry and dewetting,” appeared in Physical Review Letters (July 16, 2013).

16 Aug 2013

Magnetless Spin Memory May Lead to Nanoparticle-Sized Memory Bits

Memory devices like disk drives, flash drives and RAM play an important role in our lives. They are an essential component of our computers, phones, electronic appliances and cars. Yet current memory devices have significant drawbacks: dynamic RAM memory has to be refreshed periodically, static RAM data is lost when the power is off, flash memory lacks speed, and all existing memory technologies are challenged when it comes to miniaturization.

16 Aug 2013

Thin Nanocrystal Coating Embedded in Glass Dynamically Modifies Sunlight Passing Through

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have designed a new material to make smart windows even smarter. The material is a thin coating of nanocrystals embedded in glass that can dynamically modify sunlight as it passes through a window.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 16 Aug 2013

Novel Method to Manufacture Unusually Shaped and Functionalisable Nanostructures

The realisation of nanomachines is inching ever closer to reality. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart are helping make one of the grand challenges of nanoscience become reality.

16 Aug 2013

Researchers Formulate New Explosives Based on Nanoaluminum

Whether they are rocket propellants or fireworks, all explosives contain a fuel and an oxidizing agent. Sometimes both are in the same molecule, like in TNT; sometimes the explosive is a mixture, like Thermite. In mixtures, the smaller the particles, the higher the explosive force. American scientists have reported in the journal Angewandte Chemie a new aerosol spray drying method for the generation of periodate nanoparticles that can be used in the formulation of highly reactive explosives.

14 Aug 2013