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Stretchable Light-Emitting Device with Carbon Nanotube-Polymer Composite Electrodes

UCLA researchers have demonstrated a carbon nanotube polymer light-emitting device with intrinsically stretchable properties.

8 Aug 2011

Scientists Develop New Flu Diagnostic Method Using Gold Nanoparticles

University of Georgia research team comprising Ralph Tripp and Jeremy Driskell have developed a new diagnostic method to identify influenza in minutes at a very low cost by measuring the scattering pattern of laser light by gold nanoparticles coated with antibodies that attach to only certain flu viral strains.

5 Aug 2011

Wayne State University Researcher to Develop Long-term Implantable Electrode Using Graphene

The National Science Foundation has granted a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant worth $475,000 over a period of five years to Wayne State University’s Mark Ming-Cheng Cheng to develop a long-term, ultra-performance implantable electrode system using graphene.

5 Aug 2011

Research and Markets Adds Report on Nanomaterials and Plastic Deformation

Research and Markets has added a new report titled Nanomaterials and Plastic Deformation to its offering.

5 Aug 2011

JPK's NanoWizard AFM Used to Characterize Polymeric and Biological Materials at Chemnitz University of Technology

JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, is pleased to report on the research work from the Chemical Physics group of Professor Robert Magerle of the Chemnitz University of Technology.

From Bruker BioAFM 4 Aug 2011

Duke University Researchers Develop Metamaterial to Manipulate Light

Duke University’s electrical engineers have discovered a material that helps them in manipulating light resembling the way that electronics manipulates electron flow.

3 Aug 2011

Hebrew University Student Produces Nano-Crystalline Cellulose from Paper Mill Waste

Shaul Lapidot, a doctoral student of Prof. Oded Shoseyov, in collaboration with his lab colleagues at the Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment of the Hebrew University, Rehovot, has discovered a technique to produce nano-crystalline cellulose (NCC) from the waste obtained from paper mill.

2 Aug 2011