Nanocomposites toughen up for car, space and defense industries
An alternative fabrication route improves the properties of aluminum-based nanocomposites with great potential for vehicles of the future.
Sep 24th, 2014
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Immune system is key ally in effective cancer therapeutic strategies
Study yields new two-step strategy for weakening cancer.
Sep 23rd, 2014
Read moreNanorama car workshop
Nanomaterials and ultra-fine particles in car workshops - learn how to handle them safely by exploring the 'Nanorama Car Workshop'.
Sep 23rd, 2014
Read moreResearchers uncover properties in nanocomposite oxide ceramics for reactor fuel
Misfit dislocations are key to transport properties across material interfaces.
Sep 23rd, 2014
Read moreFluoropolymer coatings improve carbon nanotube transistor device and circuit performance
A new method improves the reliability and performance of transistors and circuits based on carbon nanotubes.
Sep 23rd, 2014
Read moreGraphene enabled flexible LEDs
Researchers have grown gallium nitride micro-rods on graphene substrates to create transferrable light-emitting diodes - enabling bendable optoelectronics devices.
Sep 23rd, 2014
Read moreAirway muscle-on-a-chip mimics asthma
Researchers have developed a human airway muscle-on-a-chip that could be used to test new drugs because it accurately mimics the way smooth muscle contracts in the human airway, under normal circumstances and when exposed to asthma triggers.
Sep 23rd, 2014
Read moreA new strategy to analyze the cellular world
Scientists have developed a new technique that expands the benefit of super-resolution microscopy to study biological questions. This method contributes to understand on how cells renew, distribute and transport their molecular and subcellular components.
Sep 23rd, 2014
Read moreCarbon nanotubes help healing hearts keep the beat (w/video)
Carbon nanotubes serve as bridges that allow electrical signals to pass unhindered through new pediatric heart-defect patches.
Sep 23rd, 2014
Read moreA special material could unlock potential for faster computing
Engineers discovered a way to create a special material - a metal layer on top of a silicon semiconductor - that could lead to cost-effective, superfast computers that perform lightning-fast calculations but don't overheat.
Sep 23rd, 2014
Read moreScientists grow a new challenger to graphene
Researchers have developed molybdenum di-sulphide (MoS2), a similar material to graphene that shares many of its properties, including extraordinary electronic conduction and mechanical strength, but made from a metal (in this case molybdenum combined with sulphur).
Sep 23rd, 2014
Read moreGraphene research - When a doughnut becomes an apple
In experiments using graphene, researchers have been able to demonstrate a phenomenon predicted by a Russian physicist more than 50 years ago. They analysed a layer structure that experts believe may hold unimagined promise.
Sep 23rd, 2014
Read moreExperts create unique nanoparticles for aerospace industry
The development of three universities enables improved thermal and electronic properties on devices with nickel-titanium alloys.
Sep 23rd, 2014
Read moreNew chip promising for tumor-targeting research
Researchers have developed a chip capable of simulating a tumor's 'microenvironment' and plan to use the new system to test the effectiveness of nanoparticles and drugs that target cancer.
Sep 22nd, 2014
Read moreGraphene imperfections key to creating hypersensitive 'electronic nose'
Researchers have discovered a way to create a highly sensitive chemical sensor based on the crystalline flaws in graphene sheets. The imperfections have unique electronic properties that the researchers were able to exploit to increase sensitivity to absorbed gas molecules by 300 times.
Sep 22nd, 2014
Read moreEngineers show light can play seesaw at the nanoscale
Discovery is another step toward faster and more energy-efficient optical devices for computation and communication.
Sep 22nd, 2014
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