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Solar-Powered Nanofilters Efficiently Remove Antibiotics from Water in Lakes and Rivers

Using the same devious mechanism that enables some bacteria to shrug off powerful antibiotics, scientists have developed solar-powered nanofilters that remove antibiotics from the water in lakes and rivers twice as efficiently as the best existing technology. Their report appears in ACS' journal Nano Letters.

From American Chemical Society 4 May 2013

Semiconductor Device Using Nano-Scale Materials Emits Two Distinct Colours

A new semiconductor device capable of emitting two distinct colours has been created by a group of researchers in the US, potentially opening up the possibility of using light emitting diodes (LEDs) universally for cheap and efficient lighting.

3 May 2013

Precisely Placed Atoms Used to Create World's Smallest Movie

Scientists from IBM today unveiled the world's smallest movie, made with one of the tiniest elements in the universe: atoms. Named "A Boy and His Atom," the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS -verified movie used thousands of precisely placed atoms to create nearly 250 frames of stop-motion action.

2 May 2013

Gold Nanoparticles Aid Environmentally Friendly Production of Formaldehyde

RUB researchers report in “Angewandte Chemie”
From methanol to formaldehyde - this reaction is the starting point for the synthesis of many everyday plastics. Using catalysts made of gold particles, formaldehyde could be produced without the environmentally hazardous waste generated in conventional methods.

30 Apr 2013

Meta-Atoms Funnel Light Through Ultra-Small Channels Causing It to Travel Infinitely Fast

In a process one researcher compares to squeezing an elephant through a pinhole, researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology have designed a way to engineer atoms capable of funneling light through ultra-small channels.

30 Apr 2013

New Market Report on Nanomagnetic Materials and Devices

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Nanomagnetics: Materials, Devices and Markets

30 Apr 2013

Selected, Peer Reviewed Papers from International Conference on Nano Materials and Electric Devices

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Advances Technologies in Nano Materials and Electric Devices" report to their offering.

From Research and Markets 30 Apr 2013

Silica Nanorattle Coated Gold Nanoparticles Used for Dark Field Imaging

In recent years, metal nanoparticles have showed great application prospect in the field of biological imaging, cancer diagnosis and treatment due to its unique optical scattering and optical absorption properties.

30 Apr 2013

Bruker Brings PeakForce Tapping Mode to the Dimension Edge AFM System

Bruker’s Nano Surfaces division announced today the expansion of its proprietary PeakForce Tapping™ technology to the Dimension Edge™ AFM platform.

From Bruker Nano Surfaces and Metrology 29 Apr 2013

Researchers Develop Supramolecular Thiophene Nanosheets

Dr. Taichi Ikeda (Senior Researcher) of the NIMS Electronic Functional Materials Group, Polymer Materials Unit, in joint research with the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (Germany), developed the world’s first supramolecular thiophene nanosheets, which is a 2-dimensional sheet-type organic material with a thickness of 3.5nm.

From National Institute for Materials Science 29 Apr 2013