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Nickel Nanocrystal Behavior Study Results Help Create Better Structural Materials

When materials are stressed, they eventually change shape. Initially these changes are elastic, and reverse when the stress is relieved. When the material's strength is exceeded, the changes become permanent. This could result in the material breaking or shattering, but it could also re-shape the material, such as a hammer denting a piece of metal. Understanding this last group of changes is the focus of research from a team including Carnegie's Ho-kwang "Dave" Mao.

14 Dec 2012

New Inductor Design with Self-Rolled-Up Silicon Nitrate Nanomembrane Tubes

On the road to smaller, high-performance electronics, University of Illinois researchers have smoothed one speed bump by shrinking a key, yet notoriously large element of integrated circuits.

14 Dec 2012

New Process to Remotely Activate Biochemical Reactions Using Nanotechnology

Since Edison's first bulb, heat has been a mostly undesirable byproduct of light. Now researchers at Rice University are turning light into heat at the point of need, on the nanoscale, to trigger biochemical reactions remotely on demand.

14 Dec 2012

New MPIE Department to Study Structure and Nano-/Micromechanics of Materials

The Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung (Max Planck Institute for Iron Research; in the following: MPIE) has established a new department headed by Prof Gerhard Dehm.

11 Dec 2012

Nanotechnology Company Liquipel Announces New Technology and Branding Licenses

Liquipel LLC, the sole owner and licensor of Liquipel, today announced new technology and branding licenses in Turkey, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. The new licenses are the latest announcements in Liquipel's global expansion initiative.

7 Dec 2012

Innovative Technique to Fabricate Nanomaterials

A new method for creating very thin layers of materials at the atomic scale, reported in the latest issue of the journal Science, could “unlock an important new technology” for creating nanomaterials, according to nanomaterials expert Dr. Jay A. Switzer of Missouri University of Science and Technology in the journal.

7 Dec 2012

Duke University Team Develops Novel Metamaterial

Microscopic metallic cubes could unleash the enormous potential of metamaterials to absorb light, leading to more efficient and cost-effective large-area absorbers for sensors or solar cells, Duke University researchers have found.

From Duke University - Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics 7 Dec 2012

Innovative Nanostructured Metal Film Nearly Triples Organic Solar Cell Efficiency

Princeton researchers have found a simple and economic way to nearly triple the efficiency of organic solar cells, the cheap and flexible plastic devices that many scientists believe could be the future of solar power.

7 Dec 2012

University of Kentucky Researcher Recognized for RNA Nanoparticles Study

University of Kentucky researcher Yi Shu was awarded the Best Poster Presentation at the National Cancer Institute Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer's Annual Principal Investigators' Meeting last month.

7 Dec 2012

Researchers Produce Fluorescent Gold Nanoparticles Inside Human Hair

In a discovery with applications ranging from hair dyeing to electronic sensors to development of materials with improved properties, scientists are reporting the first synthesis of gold nanoparticles inside human hairs. Their study appears in ACS' journal Nano Letters.

From American Chemical Society 7 Dec 2012