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Researchers Convert Scotch Tape into Grasping Smart Material Using Nanotechnology

Scotch tape, a versatile household staple and a mainstay of holiday gift-wrapping, may have a new scientific application as a shape-changing "smart material."

21 Nov 2012

Innovative Polymer Nanoparticles for Colorectal Cancer Treatment

Researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have modified electrically-conductive polymers, commonly used in solar energy applications, to develop revolutionary polymer nanoparticles (PNs) for a medical application. When the nanoparticles are exposed to infrared light, they generate heat that can be used to kill colorectal cancer cells.

21 Nov 2012

Researchers Produce Hydrogen from Water Using Light and Nanomaterials

In the first-ever experiment of its kind, researchers have demonstrated that clean energy hydrogen can be produced from water splitting by using very small metal particles that are exposed to sunlight. In the article, “Outstanding activity of sub-nm Au clusters for photocatalytic hydrogen production,” published in the journal Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, Alexander Orlov, PhD, an Assistant Professor of Materials Science & Engineering at Stony Brook University, and his colleagues from Stony Brook and Brookhaven National Laboratory, found that the use of gold particles smaller than one nanometer resulted in greater hydrogen production than other co-catalysts tested.

From Brookhaven National Laboratory 21 Nov 2012

Novel Nanoparticle Drastically Improves Effectiveness of Chemotherapy for Childhood Cancer

In a world-first, researchers from UNSW’s Australian Centre for Nanomedicine have developed a nanoparticle that improves the effectiveness of chemotherapy for neuroblastoma by a factor of five.

20 Nov 2012

Rice Researchers Stumble upon Lava Dot Nanoparticles

Serendipity proved to be a key ingredient for the latest nanoparticles discovered at Rice University. The new "lava dot" particles were discovered accidentally when researchers stumbled upon a way of using molten droplets of metal salt to make hollow, coated versions of a nanotech staple called quantum dots.

20 Nov 2012

International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics to Host Symposium for School Students

The International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science announced that it will host a symposium for high school students as a joint project of Japanfs 6 WPI research centers.

20 Nov 2012

Electrospun Polymer Nanofiber Heals Wounds

Working in the lab for the last few years, three generations of University of Akron polymer scientists say their mutual and passionate curiosity about science has led to their discovery of a first-of-its-kind, easily adaptable biocompatible polymer structure able to fight infection, filter water and perform a host of other functions.

20 Nov 2012

Nanoscale Study of Hydrogen Embrittlement in Metals

Hydrogen, the lightest element, can easily dissolve and migrate within metals to make these otherwise ductile materials brittle and substantially more prone to failures.

20 Nov 2012

Novel Nanoparticle Technology Converts Solar Energy Directly into Steam

Rice University scientists have unveiled a revolutionary new technology that uses nanoparticles to convert solar energy directly into steam. The new "solar steam" method from Rice's Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP) is so effective it can even produce steam from icy cold water.

20 Nov 2012

Extreme Synchrotron Brightness Helps Study Structure of Lanthanum Aluminate-Strontium Titanate Interface

By tweaking the formula for growing oxide thin films, researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory achieved virtual perfection at the interface of two insulator materials.

19 Nov 2012