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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

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