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Researchers Develop New Nanoparticle-Based Coating for Construction Materials

A team of scientists from the UPNA-Public University of Navarre has created a novel nanoparticle-based coating for use in construction materials.

31 May 2012

Pioneer Surgical Announces International Expansion of nanOss Bioactive Bone Graft

Pioneer Surgical Technology has announced that its proprietary nanOss Bioactive has undergone successful human implantation in Europe, thus paving the way to international distribution.

31 May 2012

New Technique Paves Way to Develop Better and Cheaper Catalysts

A group of surface scientists from the Vienna University of Technology has devised a technique to place single gold atoms on specific sites of the surface of iron oxide, paving the way to develop high-efficiency catalysts using minimum amount of precious metals.

30 May 2012

Researchers Develop Flexible and Electrically Conductive Copper-Nickel Nanowires

A research team led by Benjamin Wiley from the Duke University has developed a new nanomaterial from copper and nickel.

30 May 2012

Non-Degradable Nanomaterials Pose Unknown Danger

Nanoproducts will eventually need to be degradable as nanoparticles don’t seem to disappear.

28 May 2012

New Doping Technique Drastically Improves Graphene Solar Cell Efficiency

A research team from the University of Florida (UF) has fabricated a graphene solar cell that demonstrates a power conversion efficiency of 8.6%, a record value, when considering earlier attempts in the making of graphene solar cells that managed only 2.9% conversion efficiency.

28 May 2012

Researchers Develop New Nanostructured Metamaterial

A multi-institute research team has developed a novel nanostructured metamaterial that can transmit light more efficiently, taking one step closer to the realization of novel optical technologies.

28 May 2012

Researchers Find Forces Behind Oriented Attachment in Nanocrystal Growth

A research team led by Jim DeYoreo from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) of the US Department of Energy has for the first time directly observed the forces behind ‘oriented attachment,’ a key phenomenon whereby adjoining nanoparticles bind with each other in a typical crystallographic orientation.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 28 May 2012

Enigmatic Metamaterials Discovered by Northwestern University Researchers

Researchers at Northwestern University, Chicago, have proposed new metamaterials that exhibit compressibility properties contrary to nature. Metamaterials are those materials that are not available in nature but are engineered and also exhibit properties contrary to nature by virtue of their structure rather than composition.

28 May 2012

New Study Links Single Molecules and Hierarchical Nanostructures

A research team headed by Haimei Zheng from the Materials Sciences Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has experimentally demonstrated a key but controversial hypothesis describing nanocrystal growth.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 28 May 2012