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Compilation of Papers Presented at Polymer Composite Materials Conference

The Paris-Est Créteil University in France hosted the Conference on Multiphase Polymers and Polymer Composites Systems: Macro to Nano Scales on June 7-10, 2011.

16 Jul 2012

Researchers Develop Eco-Friendly Blue-Fluorescent Molecular Nanocapsules

Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology have synthesized blue-fluorescent molecular nanocapsules through simple mixing of bent organic blocks and eco-friendly green metal ions.

13 Jul 2012

Nanoparticles in Surface Treatments Can Be Removed by Water Over Time

Researchers at Corporación Tecnológica Tecnalia have published a study in the prestigious science magazine, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, which reveals the loss of nanomaterials caused by water on surface treatments employed in numerous consumption and construction products.

13 Jul 2012

Researchers Develop Self-Powered, Homeostatic Nanomaterials

A Harvard University-led engineering team has developed a materials platform dubbed as self-regulated mechano-chemical adaptively reconfigurable tunable system (SMARTS) that can be customized to maintain any preferred parameter such as pressure, wetness, temperature, and pH by responding to the changes in environment through a compensatory chemical feedback.

13 Jul 2012

New Multidisciplinary Project Aims to Design Shape-Shifting Nanomaterials

The Air Force Office of Scientific Research has awarded a US $2.9 million grant to a multidisciplinary team of researchers led by Professor Paras Prasad from the University at Buffalo (UB) to develop nanomaterials that react to external stimuli of light and heat by changing the shape of their internal structure.

13 Jul 2012

Mechanism of Silver Microbial Toxicity Discovered: Silver Ions, Not Nanoparticles, Kill Microbes.

A research team from Rice University has resolved a long-standing debate on how silver nanoparticles kill bacteria.

12 Jul 2012

Researchers Use Strawberry Leaf to Produce Highly Stable Silver Nanoparticles

A team of scientists from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki has developed a simple, eco-friendly, low-cost technique that is capable of rapidly producing silver nanoparticles, an important nanomaterial used in drug delivery, contaminant solvents, catalysts and electronic devices.

12 Jul 2012

Scientists Develop Metamolecules with Rapidly Switchable Chirality

A team of scientists from various research facilities including the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has developed a metamolecule whose chirality can be switched optically at the speed of light.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 12 Jul 2012

NanoWizard AFM System Used For Cell Studies At INSERM/CNRS Laboratories

JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, reports on the use of the NanoWizard® AFM system at the INSERM/CNRS Laboratories in Marseille, France

From Bruker BioAFM 10 Jul 2012

Scientists Image Individual Atoms of Ferroelectric Nanomaterials

Ferroelectric materials can store digital information just like their cousins, the ferromagnetic materials. Similar to the ferromagnetic materials being characterized by magnetic dipoles of either north or south and their capability to align themselves on a bigger scale to produce either attractive or repulsive magnetic force, ferroelectric materials also exhibit molecular level dipole moment comprising positive and negative electric charges.

From Brookhaven National Laboratory 10 Jul 2012