'Nanobottles' offer blueprint for enhanced biological imaging
Researchers have developed a new technique to provide cellular 'blueprints' that could help scientists interpret the results of X-ray fluorescence (XRF) mapping.
Oct 27th, 2016
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Food waste mixed with carbon nanotubes could store solar and wind energy
Some scientists have been exploring sugar alcohols as a possible material for making thermal storage work, but this direction has some limitations. One group of researchers wanted to investigate how mixing carbon nanotubes with sugar alcohols might affect their energy storage properties.
Oct 27th, 2016
Read moreWhere nanotechnology can learn from green chemistry
The intersection of nanotechnology and green chemistry presents an excellent opportunity to ensure that both fields can learn from each other.
Oct 27th, 2016
Read moreNext-generation smartphone battery inspired by the gut
A new prototype of a lithium-sulphur battery - which could have five times the energy density of a typical lithium-ion battery - overcomes one of the key hurdles preventing their commercial development by mimicking the structure of the cells which allow us to absorb nutrients.
Oct 26th, 2016
Read moreUsing MOFs for solid capture of carbon dioxide
Researchers are developing porous solids called metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) for the selective removal of various gases from gas mixtures.
Oct 26th, 2016
Read moreTwo-dimensional anodes for advanced sodium ion batteries
The mechanism of sodium ion storage in an important two-dimensional material could be a simpler and less toxic route to cheaper batteries, a team researchers discovered.
Oct 26th, 2016
Read moreImaging where cancer drugs go in the body could improve treatment
Scientists report a new step toward seeing where certain cancer drugs accumulate in the body in order to better treat patients. They tested their drug-carrying, lipid-based nanoparticles in animals.
Oct 26th, 2016
Read moreNeuro chip records brain cell activity
In order to understand how the brain controls functions, such as simple reflexes or learning and memory, we must be able to record the activity of large networks and groups of neurons. Conventional methods have allowed scientists to record the activity of neurons for minutes, but a new technology, known as a bionic hybrid neuro chip, is able to record activity in animal brain cells for weeks at a much higher resolution.
Oct 26th, 2016
Read moreImproved water splitting advances renewable energy conversion
Researchers have found a way to more efficiently create hydrogen from water -- an important key in making renewable energy production and storage viable.
Oct 25th, 2016
Read moreControlling ultrasound with 3D printed carbon nanotube coated devices
A new device harnesses ultrasound for surgery and manipulating small objects like particles and biological cells.
Oct 25th, 2016
Read moreSupersonic phenomena, the key to extremely low heat loss nanoelectronics
Supersonic solitary waves in nano-electronics crystals show potentials for electric charge or matter transport and energy storage with extremely low heat dissipation.
Oct 25th, 2016
Read moreNanoscale image reveals new details about formation of marine shells
Oceanographers have used modern tools to provide an atomic-scale look at how that shell first forms.
Oct 25th, 2016
Read moreA complete waste of energy
Engineers develop process for electronic devices that stops wasteful power leakage.
Oct 25th, 2016
Read moreHow often do quantum systems violate the second law of thermodynamics?
In two papers, published this week, scientists determined a more precise version of a basic law of physics - which says that disorder tends to increase with time unless acted on by an outside force - and applied it to the smallest quantum systems.
Oct 25th, 2016
Read morePioneering germ trap technology moves forward with first commercial application
Facemasks incorporating an innovative new technology will be able to comprehensively trap and kill over 99 percent of all flu viruses.
Oct 25th, 2016
Read moreTowards better metallic glasses
Researchers have used state-of-the-art computer simulation to test a theory from the 1950s that when atoms organise themselves into 3D pentagons they supress crystallisation.
Oct 25th, 2016
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