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New Superhydrophobic Fibers Effective at Cleaning Oily Water

News - 22 Jun 2022

The danger of oil spillage has grown with the expansion of the industrial sector, transport, and oil refineries. Thus, creating natural and effective adsorbent materials for oily effluent...

Nanotech Researchers Discover Cancer Cells "Feel" Much Softer Than Normal Cells

News - 17 Jan 2008

A multidisciplinary team of scientists from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), were able to differentiate metastatic cancer cells from normal cells in patient samples by utilizing a...

Dr Somenath Roy

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Dr. Somenath Roy is a Research Scientist at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), Singapore. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the Indian...

Nanosensors: Definition, Applications and How They Work

Article - 6 Feb 2007

In this article, AZoNano discusses how nanosensors work, their applications and future directions for the technology.

Novel Types of Fractional Quantum Hall Effect States Could Arise in Bilayer Graphene

News - 4 Jul 2014

One of the hottest materials in condensed matter research today is graphene. Graphene had an unlikely start: it began with researchers messing around with pencil marks on paper. Pencil...

Nano Letters Publishes HyperSolar’s Solar Powered Nanoparticle Technology to Produce Hydrogen from Water

News - 15 May 2013

HyperSolar, Inc., the developer of a breakthrough technology to produce renewable hydrogen using sunlight and any source of water, today announced that an overview of its patent pending technology...

Malvern Expert Contributes Chapter to Book on Rheology of Nutraceutical Containing Fluids

News - 18 Jan 2012

Dr Samiul Amin, Strategic Technology Group Manager at Malvern Panalytical has collaborated with Dr Krassimir P. Velikov from Unilever R&D Vlaardingen to provide a chapter examining the...

Chinese Physicists Extend Quantum Memory to Milisecond

News - 12 Feb 2009

Physicist Pan Jianwei and his research team at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) successfully extended quantum memory to milisecond. Prof. Pan and his team at Hefei National...

Bioconjugated Quantum Dots for Multiplex and Quantitative Immunohistochemistry

News - 23 May 2007

Quantum dots linked to biological molecules, such as antibodies, have shown promise as a new tool for detecting and quantifying a wide variety of cancer-associated molecules. Now, thanks to detailed...

Plant-Based Sponge Offers New Route to Ocean Oil Spill Cleanup

News - 30 Mar 2022

The fabrication of a solar-heated ink enhanced plant fiber sponge (PFS@GC) suitable for viscous ocean oil spill cleanup is the subject of recent research available as a pre-proof in the Journal of...