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New Technique to Fabricate Multiple Anodes from Single Wafers for Rechargeable Batteries

A team of scientists from Lockheed Martin and Rice University has developed a process to extract manifold superior-performance anodes from single silicon wafers.

17 Jul 2012

Researchers Develop New Materials and Nanofabrication Techniques to Create Miniaturized Components

A research group of John Fourkas, a Chemistry Professor from the University of Maryland, has created innovative materials and nanofabrication techniques to produce miniaturized components essential for sensors, medical diagnostics and other applications.

16 Jul 2012

Researchers Employ Silver Nanowires to Develop Elastic Conductors with High Conductivity

Researchers at North Carolina State University, led by assistant professor, Dr. Yong Zhu, have employed silver nanowires to produce elastic conductors with high conductivity.

From North Carolina State University 16 Jul 2012

NanoSteel Receives R+D 100 Award for Nano-Structured Steel Design

NanoSteel, the provider of nano-structured steel designs, has bagged the R&D 100 Award for the development of a new nano-structured powder metal alloy for use in large-scale manufacture of industrial components. This award is the fifth such R&D award for NanoSteel. Dubbed as the “Oscars of Innovation”, The R&D 100 Awards is into its 50th year of recognizing and honoring the most technologically noteworthy products developed and launched in a given year.

16 Jul 2012

Researchers Demonstrate Plasmonics to Exhibit Polymer-like Behavior

Researchers at Rice University have carried out a study to highlight the similarities in plasmonics and polymer behavior that could pave the way for building smaller and better computing systems and antennae.

16 Jul 2012

New Self-Assembly Technique to Create High-Surface-Density Quantum Dots

A research team comprising Drs. Takaaki Mano, Yoshiki Sakuma and Masafumi Jo from the Photonic Materials Unit of the National Institute for Materials Science is involved in the development of a sophisticated self-assembling technology known as droplet epitaxy for semiconductor quantum dots.

From National Institute for Materials Science 16 Jul 2012

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