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Superior-Grade Aluminum Oxide Nanofiber Producer ANF Technology Receives Additional Investment

FPI Innovation Fund LP, (“FPI”), the seed and venture capital fund targeting high return investments in the scientific, engineering and entrepreneurial sectors, today announces it has attracted and arranged a co-investment of €10m into ANF Technology, the producer of NAFEN™. NAFEN™ is the first ever superior-grade aluminum oxide nano fiber to be produced at commercially viable industrial volumes.

26 Mar 2013

Researchers Investigate Nanofoams for Structural Protection

Engineers at the University of California, San Diego are developing nanofoams that could be used to make better body armor; prevent traumatic brain injury and blast-related lung injuries in soldiers; and protect buildings from impacts and blasts. It’s the first time researchers are investigating the use of nanofoams for structural protection.

26 Mar 2013

Metascreen Invisibility Cloak Hides 3D Objects from Microwaves

Up until now, the invisibility cloaks put forward by scientists have been fairly bulky contraptions – an obvious flaw for those interested in Harry Potter-style applications.

26 Mar 2013

New Experimental Method to Study Positively Charged Ions

Scientists at the Department of Physics of the University of Oulu have teamed up with scientists in France, Russia and Japan to propose a new experimental method for researching positively charged ions.

26 Mar 2013

Nanoparticles Incorporated into Scintillators Can Detect Nuclear Radiation

A team of industrial and university researchers has shown that nanoparticles with sizes smaller than 10 nanometers – approximately the width of a cell membrane – can be successfully incorporated into scintillation devices capable of detecting and measuring a wide energy range of X-rays and gamma rays emitted by nuclear materials.

26 Mar 2013

Quantum Dots Embedded Within Nanowires Boost Efficiency of Photovoltaic Cells

Using exotic particles called quantum dots as the basis for a photovoltaic cell is not a new idea, but attempts to make such devices have not yet achieved sufficiently high efficiency in converting sunlight to power. A new wrinkle added by a team of researchers at MIT — embedding the quantum dots within a forest of nanowires — promises to provide a significant boost.

From Massachusetts Institute of Technology 26 Mar 2013

Researchers Study Organic Semiconductor Crystals to Develop Novel Thin Film Devices

Advances in organic semiconductor technology could one day lead to video screens that bend like paper and electronics sewn into clothing.

25 Mar 2013

Study Demonstrates Great Potential of Nanowire-Based Solar Cells

Scientists from the Nano-Science Center at the Niels Bohr Institut, Denmark and the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, have shown that a single nanowire can concentrate the sunlight up to 15 times of the normal sun light intensity. The results are surprising and the potential for developing a new type of highly efficient solar cells is great.

25 Mar 2013

Carbon Nanotubes Store Information in the Form of Vibrations

Carbon nanotubes can be used as quantum bits for quantum computers. A study by physicists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen has shown how nanotubes can store information in the form of vibrations. Up to now, researchers have experimented primarily with electrically charged particles. Because nanomechanical devices are not charged, they are much less sensitive to electrical interference.

25 Mar 2013

Researchers Obtain Strong Signal of Photonic Spin Hall Effect Using Metamaterials

Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have once again demonstrated the incredible capabilities of metamaterials – artificial nanoconstructs whose optical properties arise from their physical structure rather than their chemical composition.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 22 Mar 2013