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Gartner’s Cool Vendor Recognition Validates Cambrios’ Silver Nanowire Technology

Cambrios Technologies Corporation, the leader in silver nanowire-based solutions for the transparent and flexible conductor markets, today announced that the company was recently recognized by Gartner as a “Cool Vendor.”

6 Jun 2013

Unique Nanoscale Architecture of Silicon-Composite Electrode Enables Electrochemical Stability of Battery

Stanford University scientists have dramatically improved the performance of lithium-ion batteries by creating novel electrodes made of silicon and conducting polymer hydrogel, a spongy substance similar to the material used in soft contact lenses and other household products.

5 Jun 2013

NSF CAREER Award to Help Create Metal Nanoparticle-Based Biosensors

Biomedical sensors using metal nanoparticles hold great promise for the early detection of disease. But the current class of sensors has little or no shelf life, and creating and using them is expensive.

4 Jun 2013

New Collaborative Research Center on Nanodimensional Polymer Therapeutics for Tumor Therapy

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has established a new Collaborative Research Center on "Nanodimensional polymer therapeutics for tumor therapy" (CRC 1066) at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P).

1 Jun 2013

Novel Technology can Capture Single Atom or Multiple Atoms Between Two Probes

University at Buffalo engineers will receive $50,000 from the statewide SUNY Technology Accelerator Fund (TAF) to build a commercial prototype of a metrology system they have invented.

1 Jun 2013

Novel Nanomaterials May Aid in New Method for Gleaning Hydrogen Fuel from Water

Two University at Buffalo faculty members have received a $200,000 Scialog grant from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement to devise a new method for gleaning hydrogen fuel from water.

1 Jun 2013

Nanotech Web Entangles and Traps Bed Bugs

Bed bugs now need to watch their step. Researchers at Stony Brook University have developed a safe, non-chemical resource that literally stops bed bugs in their tracks. This innovative new technology acts as a man-made web consisting of microfibers 50 times thinner than a human hair which entangle and trap bed bugs and other insects. This patent-pending technology is being commercialized by Fibertrap, a private company that employs non-toxic pest control methods.

1 Jun 2013

Biomineralized Nanoclays Impart Bone-Forming Abilities to 3-D Mesh Scaffolds

Confounding clays of the Red River Valley that cause structures to shift and buckle could actually hold the key to building better bones in humans, according to a North Dakota State University research team.

1 Jun 2013

Graphene Combined with Silver Nanowires to Form Thin, Transparent and Stretchable Electrode

A hybrid transparent and stretchable electrode could open the new way for flexible displays, solar cells, and even electronic devices fitted on a curvature substrate such as soft eye contact lenses, by the UNIST(Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology) research team.

31 May 2013

Researchers Construct Polymer Opals from Spherical Nanoparticles

Instead of through pigments, these ‘polymer opals’ get their colour from their internal structure alone, resulting in pure colour which does not run or fade. The materials could be used to replace the toxic dyes used in the textile industry, or as a security application, making banknotes harder to forge. Additionally, the thin, flexible material changes colour when force is exerted on it, which could have potential use in sensing applications by indicating the amount of strain placed on the material.

31 May 2013