The honeycomb structure of pristine graphene is beautiful, but scientists have discovered that if the graphene naturally has a few tiny holes in it, you have a proton-selective membrane that could lead to improved fuel cells.
Mar 17th, 2015
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Scientists have discovered a high performance cathode material with great promise for use in next generation lithium-sulfur batteries that could one day be used to power mobile devices and electric cars.
Mar 17th, 2015
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Researchers have found a simple and robust means to magnetize graphene using hydrogen.
Mar 17th, 2015
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Scientists have eveloped a new technology which could one day create quantum phenomena in objects far larger than any achieved so far. The team successfully suspended glass particles 400 nanometres across in a vacuum using an electric field, then used lasers to cool them to within a few degrees of absolute zero.
Mar 17th, 2015
Read moreCarbon nanotube membranes have a bright future in addressing the world's growing need to purify water from the sea, researchers say in a new study.
Mar 17th, 2015
Read moreEngineers are developing a new type of bandage that does far more than stanch the bleeding from a paper cut or scraped knee. Thanks to advances in flexible electronics, the researchers have created a new 'smart bandage' that uses electrical currents to detect early tissue damage from pressure ulcers, or bedsores, before they can be seen by human eyes - and while recovery is still possible.
Mar 17th, 2015
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Scientists have developed a highly efficient oxygen-producing electrode for splitting water that has the potential to be scaled up for industrial production of the clean energy fuel, hydrogen. The new technology is based on an inexpensive, specially coated foam material that lets the bubbles of oxygen escape quickly.
Mar 17th, 2015
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Graphene oxide, a water-soluble derivative of graphene with many functional groups on the surface, is one of the best candidates for fabricating bioinspired layered materials, because functional surface groups enable interface designs that can improve the interfacial strength in composites.
Mar 17th, 2015
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In this work, fullerene C60 is used as starting material, due to its well-defined dimension, to produce very small graphene quantum
dots.
Mar 17th, 2015
Read moreTAPPI announced that Dr. Theodora Retsina, CEO of American Process, Inc. (API) and Dr. Maria Delorio, Executive Director of the National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT) and Professor of Physics and Assistant Vice President of Research at the University of Alberta, will be keynote speakers at the 2015 International Conference on Nanotechnology for Renewable Nanomaterials, in Atlanta, Georgia, June 22-25.
Mar 17th, 2015
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A step in understanding how microbes infect target cells. The findings have potential long-term applications for developing new antibiotics against salmonella and certain other disease-causing bacteria, for designing bacteria that could inject cancer cells with chemotherapy drugs, and for helping people how to design machines at the nanoscopic or molecular scale.
Mar 16th, 2015
Read moreResearchers have shown that spherical nucleic acids (SNAs) can be used as potent drugs to effectively train the immune system to fight disease, by either boosting or dampening the immune response. The initial treatment triggers a cell-specific immune response all over the body.
Mar 16th, 2015
Read moreToday, the PETA International Science Consortium put out a request for proposals to identify facilities that can develop an in vitro test that, when used in an integrated approach, has the potential to replace the current test conducted on animals to assess the inhalation toxicity of nanomaterials.
Mar 16th, 2015
Read moreScientists have developed a robust new material, inspired by biological catalysts, that is extraordinarily effective at destroying toxic nerve agents that are a threat around the globe.
Mar 16th, 2015
Read moreThe causes of a hitherto mysterious process that could enhance the power of solar cells have been explained in a new study.
Mar 16th, 2015
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Researchers have shown that the use of nanoparticles to carry antibiotics across biological barriers can be effective in treating lung infections. Doing so allows better delivery of the drug to the site of infection, and hence prevents the development of antibiotic resistance which may be caused by too large and continued doses of antibiotic.
Mar 16th, 2015
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