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News - 29 Mar 2007

Scientists at the University of Illinois have fabricated the world's smallest chain-mail fabric. Combined with existing processing techniques, the flexible, metallic fabric holds promise for fully...

FAU Receives $599,503 DOD Grant for Powerful Tool with Nanoscale Imaging Capabilities

News - 2 Nov 2022

Florida Atlantic University has received a $599,503 grant from the United States Department of Defense for a powerful high resolution imaging technique that can reveal nanoscale structures. The...

Predictive Model to Understand Interaction of Hydrogen-Nanovoid in Metals

News - 18 Jul 2019

A five-year joint study by Chinese and Canadian researchers has formed a theoretical model via computer simulation to estimate properties of hydrogen nanobubbles in metal. The international team...

Graphene is hydrophilic, not hydrophobic

News - 22 Dec 2017

Researchers have long thought that graphene, a unique form of carbon, repels water, a property known as being hydrophobic. However, a new study published in the journal Advanced Materials has...

WSU Team Delivers "Nanotherapeutics" Directly to Tumor for First Time

News - 16 May 2017

A team of researchers from Washington State University (WSU) have shown a method to supply a drug to a tumor by attaching it to a blood cell. The innovation would enable doctors to target tumors...

Researchers Describe New Process for Creating Super Elastic 3-D Printed Metallic Nanostructured Materials

News - 19 Jul 2016

For years, scientists and engineers have synthesized materials at the nanoscale level to take advantage of their mechanical, optical, and energy properties, but efforts to scale these materials to...

Graphene Makes Rubber Films Stronger and Stretchier

News - 20 May 2016

Researchers at The University of Manchester have demonstrated that when a small amount of graphene is added to thin rubber films, they become significantly stretchier and stronger. Graphene -...

Global Nanomaterials Market Expected to Reach $11.8 Billion by 2020

News - 22 Sep 2015

Global Nanomaterials market is currently valued at $3.4 billion in 2014 and is expected to reach $11.8 billion by 2020 showing a compound annual growth rate of 23.1%. North America will remain the...

Public Private-Partnership to Advance Development of Commercial Cellulosic Nanomaterial Production Facility

News - 13 Dec 2013

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced a public private-partnership to rapidly advance the development of the first U.S. commercial facility producing cellulosic nanomaterial, a wood fiber...

Scientists Make Progress in Producing Fully Functional Nanocellulose for Biofuels

News - 8 Apr 2013

Genes from the family of bacteria that produce vinegar, Kombucha tea and nata de coco have become stars in a project — which scientists today said has reached an advanced stage — that...