A new report comprehensively reviews over 65 papers on the biological accumulation of engineered nanomaterials under a range of ecologically relevant exposure conditions in water, soil or sediment with the focus on quantitative comparison among these existing studies.
Dec 21st, 2012
Read moreWireless Sensor Network solutions to increase productivity in agriculture and aquaculture sectors; applicable for environmental and health.
Dec 21st, 2012
Read morePhysicists develop miniature source of electromagnetic radiation - a generator driven by spin current.
Dec 21st, 2012
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Flinders University's expertise in nanotechnology will be employed as part of an $87 million project aimed at transforming Australia into a global solar energy powerhouse.
Dec 21st, 2012
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MIT researchers develop a new approach using graphene sheets coated with nanowires.
Dec 21st, 2012
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Environment determines the motion of motor proteins.
Dec 21st, 2012
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Researchers in Japan and the US propose a nanoionic device with a range of neuromorphic and electrical multifunctions that may allow the fabrication of on-demand configurable circuits, analog memories and digital-neural fused networks in one device architecture.
Dec 20th, 2012
Read moreA team of researchers from three medical institutions in Guangzhou, China, have found that iron oxide nanoparticles (INOPS) are a useful contrast agent for in vivo magnetic resonance tracking of transplanted human endothelial cells.
Dec 20th, 2012
Read moreHigh purity MOF products prepared by the liquid-free process may be ideally suited as rare earth containing materials for sensors and detectors, electronic or magnetic materials. The discovery also extends liquid-free preparation techniques to a large new class of 3D-structured materials and is expected to lead to new products with unique properties and suitability for applications heretofore unknown.
Dec 20th, 2012
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Researchers are aiming to develop a new class of materials with remarkable properties using one atom-thick substances such as graphene in a new collaborative project.
Dec 20th, 2012
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Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute have demonstrated that photons emitted from light sources embedded in a complex and disordered structure are able to mutually coordinate their paths through the medium.
Dec 20th, 2012
Read moreInvestigators at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute have invented a way to directly image biological structures at their most fundamental level and in their natural habitats. The technique is a major advancement toward the ultimate goal of imaging biological processes in action at the atomic level.
Dec 20th, 2012
Read moreBy doping a bismuth-based layered material with silver, Chinese scientists demonstrated that superconductivity is intrinsic to the new material rather than stemming from its impurities.
Dec 20th, 2012
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University of Wollongong researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science (ACES) and the School of Chemistry have printed materials which can actuate and strain gauge.
Dec 20th, 2012
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Waves do not spread in a disordered medium if there is less than one wavelength between two defects. Physicists from the universities of Zurich and Constance have now proved Nobel Prize winner Philip W. Anderson's theory directly for the first time using the diffusion of light in a cloudy medium.
Dec 20th, 2012
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Experiments demonstrate 'quantum spin liquid', which could have applications in new computer memory storage.
Dec 20th, 2012
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