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Self-Cleaning NanoSeptic Surfaces Help Improve Cleanliness of Schools

Schools across the country are fighting to control the spread of illness. So it's no surprise that administrators and environmental services managers are taking steps to improve the cleanliness of their schools, for both students and teachers, by adopting self-cleaning NanoSeptic® surfaces in and out of the classroom.

19 Apr 2013

Pure Gold Nanoparticles Can Inhibit Fat Storage Leading to Accelerated Aging and Wrinkling

New research reveals that pure gold nanoparticles found in everyday items such as personal care products, as well as drug delivery, MRI contrast agents and solar cells can inhibit adipose (fat) storage and lead to accelerated aging and wrinkling, slowed wound healing and the onset of diabetes.

19 Apr 2013

Novel Inexpensive Coating Boosts Solar-Cell Efficiency

Throughout decades of research on solar cells, one formula has been considered an absolute limit to the efficiency of such devices in converting sunlight into electricity: Called the Shockley-Queisser efficiency limit, it posits that the ultimate conversion efficiency can never exceed 34 percent for a single optimized semiconductor junction.

From Massachusetts Institute of Technology 19 Apr 2013

Two-Dimensional Nanocrystals-Based Semiconductor Technology for Future Computers

Researchers are developing a new type of semiconductor technology for future computers and electronics based on "two-dimensional nanocrystals" layered in sheets less than a nanometer thick that could replace today's transistors.

18 Apr 2013

Three-Dimensional Bicontinuous Nanoporous Electrodes Help Build High Power Micro Batteries

Though they be but little, they are fierce. The most powerful batteries on the planet are only a few millimeters in size, yet they pack such a punch that a driver could use a cellphone powered by these batteries to jump-start a dead car battery – and then recharge the phone in the blink of an eye.

From University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 18 Apr 2013

Innovative Nanotechnology-Inspired Bioprocess Can Convert Cellulose into Amylose Starch

A team of Virginia Tech researchers has succeeded in transforming cellulose into starch, a process that has the potential to provide a previously untapped nutrient source from plants not traditionally thought of as food crops.

17 Apr 2013

Grafoid, University of Waterloo to Develop Graphene-Based Composites for Electrochemical Energy Storage

Focus Graphite Inc. on behalf of Grafoid Inc. ("Grafoid") is pleased to announce the signing of a two-year R&D agreement between Grafoid Inc. and the University of Waterloo to investigate and develop a graphene-based composite for electrochemical energy storage for the automotive and/or portable electronics sectors.

17 Apr 2013

Cancer Study Featuring Use of NaturalNano's Halloysite Published in Journal of Nanomaterials

NaturalNano, Inc. announced that Dr. Michael King, of Cornell University, published his most recent study featuring the use of NaturalNano's Halloysite Natural Tubes (HNT) in Journal of Nanomaterials (http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jnm/si/895020/).

17 Apr 2013

Scientists Create Composite Materials with Comparable Properties Using Nanotechnology

Plant components that bend, roll or twist in response to external stimuli such as temperature or moisture are fairly commonplace in nature and often play a role in the dispersal of seeds. Pine cones, for instance, close their scales when wet and open them again once they have dried out.

17 Apr 2013

Researchers Develop Innovative Drug Delivery Technique Using Magneto-Electric Nanoparticles

In a study published in today's issue of Nature Communications, researchers from Florida International University's Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine describe a revolutionary technique they have developed that...

17 Apr 2013

Nanomaterials News

Self-Cleaning NanoSeptic Surfaces Help Improve Cleanliness of Schools

Pure Gold Nanoparticles Can Inhibit Fat Storage Leading to Accelerated Aging and Wrinkling

Novel Inexpensive Coating Boosts Solar-Cell Efficiency

Two-Dimensional Nanocrystals-Based Semiconductor Technology for Future Computers

Three-Dimensional Bicontinuous Nanoporous Electrodes Help Build High Power Micro Batteries

Innovative Nanotechnology-Inspired Bioprocess Can Convert Cellulose into Amylose Starch

Grafoid, University of Waterloo to Develop Graphene-Based Composites for Electrochemical Energy Storage

Cancer Study Featuring Use of NaturalNano's Halloysite Published in Journal of Nanomaterials

Scientists Create Composite Materials with Comparable Properties Using Nanotechnology

Researchers Develop Innovative Drug Delivery Technique Using Magneto-Electric Nanoparticles

Novel Semiconductor Born from Graphene and Glass

Rapid Biomimetic Nanovaccine for Personalized Cancer Therapy

2D Materials Powering the Future of Neuromorphic and Sensory Devices

Novel Materials Built to Withstand Extreme Environments

The Future of Multiplex Nanosensors in Food Safety

Conversations on AFM: How AI is Automating Scanning Probe Microscopy

Breaking Barriers in Thin-Film Deposition with ATLANT 3D’s DALP Technology

Overcoming Nanogold Production Challenges

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