A pioneering, multi-institution research center headquartered at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering has just won a $15-million grant renewal from the National Science Foundation and the US Environmental Protection Agency to continue learning more about where nanoparticles accumulate, how they interact with other chemicals and how they affect the environment.
Nov 12th, 2013
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Nanotechnology researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have developed a technique that can be used to identify the structure of an individual carbon nanotube and characterize its electronic and optical properties in a functional device.
Nov 12th, 2013
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Ireland's new materials science research centre has announced the launch of their new NanoWOW lesson plans. Designed for 5th and 6th class pupils the plans will introduce Irish Primary students to the world of nanotechnology and materials science.
Nov 12th, 2013
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An interdisciplinary team of University of Pennsylvania researchers has already developed a technique for controlling liquid crystals by means of physical templates and elastic energy, rather than the electromagnetic fields that manipulate them in televisions and computer monitors. They envision using this technique to direct the assembly of other materials, such as nanoparticles.
Nov 12th, 2013
Read moreTo make the best use of nanotechnology, researchers and businesses need the most advanced and effective tools. FIBLYS and its direct follow-on project, UnivSEM, achieved a major breakthrough in precisely this area, creating a unique new machine which is vividly summed up by one of the project leaders as a 'Swiss Army knife' of nanotechnology tools.
Nov 12th, 2013
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A computational method to quantify the adsorption of gas by porous zeolites should help labs know what to expect before they embark upon slow, costly experiments, according to researchers at Rice University.
Nov 12th, 2013
Read moreThe deadline for paper submission to the International Nanosafety Congress was extended to 15 December 2013.
Nov 11th, 2013
Read moreThe nanotechnology materials carbon nanotubes and fullerenes are invisible to the chemical gatekeeper that flushes potentially harmful substances out of our bodies' cells.
Nov 11th, 2013
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The triboelectric nanogenerator, a unique technology for harvesting ambient mechanical energy based on the triboelectric effect, has been proven to be a cost-effective, simple, and robust approach for self-powered systems.
Nov 11th, 2013
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Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University have experimentally demonstrated a new paradigm for solar cell construction which may ultimately make them less expensive, easier to manufacture and more efficient at harvesting energy from the sun.
Nov 11th, 2013
Read moreThe book 'Nanomedical Device and Systems Design: Challenges, Possibilities, Visions' serves as a preliminary guide toward the inspiration of specific investigative pathways that may lead to meaningful discourse and significant advances in nanomedicine/nanotechnology.
Nov 11th, 2013
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Zwei Experimente unter der Leitung von Markus Arndt und Markus Aspelmeyer, beide Quantenphysiker der Universit�t Wien, zeigen erstmals die Laserk�hlung von Teilchen, die aus mehr als einer Milliarde Atomen bestehen.
Nov 11th, 2013
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MIT researchers make micro- and nanostructured surfaces that are easier to cool under extreme heat; finding could benefit power plants, electronics.
Nov 11th, 2013
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Asymmetrical particles could make lab-on-a-chip diagnostic devices more efficient and portable.
Nov 11th, 2013
Read moreThe Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Photovoltaics Group of the NIMS, Global Research Center for Environment and Energy based on Nanomaterials Science (GREEN), elucidated the relationship between the photocurrent and the peculiar changes in the absorption structure occurring in the vicinity of the molecular-electrode interface in dye-sensitized solar cells, by conducting a soft X-ray radiation experiment.
Nov 11th, 2013
Read moreIran's proposal to the Nanotechnology International Standardization Committee (ISO/TC229) was approved in the final stage of voting (DTS stage) and will be published in the near future.
Nov 11th, 2013
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