Tag: NANOTECHNOLOGY/MICROMACHINES

Cracks in the desert floor appear random to the untrained eye, even beautifully so, but the mathematics governing patterns of dried clay turn out to be predictable–and useful in designing advanced materials. In a pair of new studies from Princeton…

Kent State researcher and professor elected to the European Academy of Sciences

Quan Li, Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow in Kent State’s Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, joins the prestigious Brussels-based organization that has about 660 members from 45 nations, including 65 Nobel Prize and Fields Medal winners. The European Academy of…

Masashi Watanabe elected to inaugural class of Microanalysis Society Fellows

Professional association honors electron microscopy expert and Lehigh University materials science and engineering professor for outstanding leadership and innovation

Water + air + electricity = hydrogen peroxide

Rice University breakthrough produces valuable chemical on demand at point of use

Electrochemistry to benefit photonics: Nanotubes can control laser pulses

An international team of scientists led by researchers from the Laboratory of Nanomaterials at the Skoltech Center for Photonics and Quantum Materials (CPQM) has shown that the nonlinear optical response of carbon nanotubes can be controlled by electrochemical gating. This…

Lithuanian researchers developed new technology for precision grinding

By experimenting with tungsten carbide a team of researchers at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania, created an innovative technology allowing to shape the extremely strong and yet easily breakable material into a desirable form.

Graphene substrate improves the conductivity of carbon nanotube network

Scientists at Aalto University, Finland, and the University of Vienna, Austria, have combined graphene and single-walled carbon nanotubes into a transparent hybrid material with conductivity higher than either component exhibits separately

New production technique for high-performance polymer could make for better body armor

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — A team of researchers has found a new way to produce a polymer material called PBO, a product known commercially as Zylon that’s used in bulletproof vests and other high-performance fabrics. The new approach could…

Folding a drop of water solves a longstanding challenge in portable diagnostic devices

Researchers with IBM and Polytechnique Montreal ‘fold’ a drop of water, solving a problem that has hindered development of portable diagnostic systems

Brain tissue kept alive for weeks on an artificial membrane

Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research in Japan have developed a new system for keeping tissue viable for long-term study once transferred from an animal to a culture medium. The new system uses a microfluidic device that…

A simple way to control swarming molecular machines

The swarming behavior of about 100 million molecular machines can be controlled by applying simple mechanical stimuli such as extension and contraction. This method could lead to the development of new swarming molecular machines and small energy-saving devices. The swarming…

Cooling nanotube resonators with electrons

Mechanical resonators have been used with great success as new resources in quantum technology. Carbon nanotube mechanical resonators have shown to be excellent ultra-high sensitive devices for the study of new physical phenomena at the nanoscale (e.g. spin physics, quantum…

A close up on the real world — atomic migration under ambient conditions

Researchers from Osaka University take a closer look at electrostatically driven reactions at metal surfaces under atmospheric conditions

Lehigh University materials symposium sets stage for industry-academic partnerships

Institute for Functional Materials and Devices event to identify use-inspired, interdisciplinary research problems that impact society

Accidental discovery of strong and unbreakable molecular switch

An organic material that can repeatedly change shape without breaking would have many useful applications, such as artificial muscles, pumps or as a switch. Physicists at Radboud University accidentally discovered a material with that property. Their findings will be published…

Smaller than a coin

October 7, 2019 sarah JonasUncategorized

Nowadays, a mobile phone can do almost anything: take photos or video, send messages, determine its present location, and of course transmit telephone conversations. With these versatile devices, it might even be possible to ascertain a beer’s alcohol content or…

Molecular nanocarbons with mechanical bonds

Carbon materials with nano-scale periodicity such as graphene and carbon nanotubes, called “nanocarbons,” are expected to become light, highly functional next-generation materials. There have been demands for precise synthesis methods targeting only at the nanocarbon structure with desired property because…

A new mathematical approach to understanding zeolites

October 7, 2019 sarah JonasUncategorized

Study of minerals widely used in industrial processes could lead to discovery of new materials for catalysis and filtering

Bacteria trapped — and terminated — by graphene filter

October 7, 2019 sarah JonasUncategorized

Rice lab adapts laser-induced graphene to remove pathogens from the air

Graphene turns 15 on track to deliver on its promises

The Graphene Flagship analyses the current graphene landscape and market forecast for graphene over the following decade

The fast dance of electron spins

Chemists investigate the interactions of metal complexes and light

First video of viruses assembling

Research offers rare view into the formation of viruses

New metasurface design can control optical fields in three dimensions

A team led by scientists at the University of Washington has designed and tested a 3D-printed metamaterial that can manipulate light with nanoscale precision. As they report in a paper published Oct. 4 in the journal Science Advances , their…

A filament fit for space — silk is proven to thrive in outer space temperatures

Their initial discovery had seemed like a contradiction because most other polymer fibres embrittle in the cold. But after many years of working on the problem, the group of researchers have discovered that silk’s cryogenic toughness is based on its…

Keeping cool with quantum wells

Tokyo, Japan – University of Tokyo researchers have announced a new approach for electrical cooling without the need for moving parts. By applying a bias voltage to quantum wells made of the semiconductor aluminum gallium arsenide, electrons can be made…

How long does memory last? For shape memory alloys, the longer the better

Known to many as muscle wire or memory metal, shape memory alloys are materials that can be bent or deformed, and then return to their original shape when heat is applied. While people are most familiar with the material in…

Shape-shifting structures take the form of a face, antenna

October 2, 2019 sarah JonasUncategorized

Complex lattices that change in response to stimuli open a range of applications in electronics, robotics, medicine

Entos Pharmaceuticals announces research, development and collaboration agreement

EDMONTON, Alberta, October 2, 2019 — Entos Pharmaceuticals Inc. (“Entos” or the “Company”), a healthcare biotechnology company focused on the development of next-generation nucleic acid-based therapies using their Fusogenix drug delivery platform, today announced it has entered into a research,…

Scientists improve pancreatic cancer diagnosis with multifunctional platinum nanoreactor

October 2, 2019 sarah JonasUncategorized

Metabolic analysis involves ongoing biological pathways and can be more distal than proteomic/genomic approaches to in vitro diagnostics (IVD). However, point-of-care (POC) metabolic analysis needs special designed materials to detect target biomarkers of low concentration in complex biosystems. Scientists from…

Shape affects performance of micropillars in heat transfer

New study shows how the shape of nanostructures impacts how well they retain water — and heat

Product authentication at your fingertips

UC Riverside-led research brings rapid and reversible switching of plasmonic color to solids

R01 grant funds research examining small RNAs in metastatic breast cancer

Xiaoting Zhang, PhD, associate professor of cancer biology at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, received federal funding, an R01 grant from the National Cancer Institute, to study certain genetic material, known as small RNAs, in breast cancer metastasis…

The future of bone healing

UTA researchers pursuing innovative treatment for cranial injuries

FEFU scientists developed high-precision sensor based on laser-textured gold film

Scientists of Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) with colleagues from Russia, Japan, and Australia have developed a multi-purpose sensor based on a specially designed gold film which surface contains millions of parabolic nanoantennas produced by femtosecond laser printing. The sensor…

Silicon technology boost with graphene and 2D materials

Silicon semiconductor technology has done marvels for the advancement of our society, who has benefited tremendously from its versatile use and amazing capabilities. The development of electronics, automation, computers, digital cameras and recent smartphones based on this material and its…

Borophene on silver grows freely into an atomic ‘skin’

Rice scientists lead effort to improve manufacture of valuable 2D material

SMART announces successful way to commercially manufacture integrated Silicon III-V Chips

MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore has developed a commercially viable way to create new Silicon III-V Chips, paving the way for intelligent optoelectronic and 5G devices

Curved nanochannels allow independent tuning of charge and spin currents

To increase the efficiency of microchips, 3D structures are now being investigated. However, spintronic components, which rely on electron spin rather than charge, are always flat. To investigate how to connect these to 3D electronics, University of Groningen physicist Dr.…

Optoceutics: A new technique using light for regenerative medicine

A new study published on Science Advances shows that it is possible to specifically conduct the fate of tissue cells by using visible light.

An artificial skin that can help rehabilitation and enhance virtual reality

Just like our senses of hearing and vision, our sense of touch plays an important role in how we perceive and interact with the world around us. And technology capable of replicating our sense of touch – also known as…

Why viruses like Herpes and Zika will need to be reclassified, and its biotech impact

New findings reveal many different structural models, which can eventually lead to developing more targeted antiviral vaccines.

Physicists found weak spots in ceramic/graphene composites

Physicists found out the structures in nanomaterials made of ceramic and graphene plates, in which cracks appear most frequently

CCNY physicists score double hit in LED research

In two breakthroughs in the realm of photonics, City College of New York graduate researchers are reporting the successful demonstration of an LED (light-emitting diode) based on half-light half-matter quasiparticles in atomically thin materials. This is also the first successful…

Light in a new light