Military uniforms of the future may offer a new layer of protection to wearers thanks to research at the UMass Amherst and elsewhere, developing a nanotube-based fabric that repels chemical and biological agents
Nov 27th, 2012
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Researchers at the CEA, CNRS and Joseph Fourier University, in Grenoble and Saclay, have developed two new cobalt-based materials that may be used to replace platinum, a rare and expensive metal, in producing hydrogen from water (electrolysis).
Nov 27th, 2012
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Researchers have taken the first step towards building graphene-based components. They successfully managed to increase the graphene conduction electrons' spin-orbit coupling by a factor of 10,000 - enough to allow them to construct a switch that can be controlled via small electric fields.
Nov 27th, 2012
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A seamless graphene/nanotube hybrid created at Rice University may be the best electrode interface material possible for many energy storage and electronics applications.
Nov 27th, 2012
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Researcher at EPFL proves that the strong electric charge observed at the interface between oil and water is not due to impurities.
Nov 27th, 2012
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Properties of several of the most external atomic layers of materials can be studied at Mazovia Centre for Surface Analysis by a number of modern techniques. Just opened at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, the Centre provides a spectrum of surface analysis tools including a state-of-the-art scanning electron microscope and specialised spectroscopic equipment for surface studies in high and ultra high vacuum.
Nov 27th, 2012
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The October 2012 issue of Nanotech Insights, a quarterly newsletter dedicated to the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology, is now available from CKMNT.
Nov 27th, 2012
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In a new study, using tools including those found at the Synchrotron Radiation Center, scientists have developed a process for making a never-before-seen, atomically thin, composite material containing ordered layers of graphene and nanocrystals of graphene monoxide.
Nov 27th, 2012
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New research finds that size plays a major role in how nanoscale nickel oxide (NiO) shells behave when being reduced to solid nickel nanoparticles.
Nov 27th, 2012
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It is merely the arrangement of the carbon that makes it look so different. Highly ordered carbon makes a hard gemstone, incoherent and powdery carbon is more appropriate for a barbecue or writing letters. High pressures and temperatures can change the properties of carbon, and graphite becomes diamond. Researchers at the Leibniz Institute for New Materials were surprised to observed similar changes when monitoring nanoparticles.
Nov 27th, 2012
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CeNTech assists University in Nanjing in founding New Nano Institute - the "Herbert Gleiter Institute of Nanoscience".
Nov 27th, 2012
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PTB and Dectris have developed a vacuum-compatible X-ray detector that allows the size of low-contrast nano-objects to be determined.
Nov 27th, 2012
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The wetting model is a classical problem in surface science and biomimetic science. Researchers in China have now approached this old and classical problem from a new direction. They stressed that it is the triple contact line and not the contact area of the droplet/solid interface that determines the macroscopic contact angle.
Nov 27th, 2012
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With a new contribution to probability theory, researchers show that relatively simple physical systems could yield powerful quantum computers.
Nov 27th, 2012
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Among the most important techniques developed in atomic physics over the past few years are methods that enable the storage and cooling of atoms and ions at temperatures just above absolute zero. Scientists from Bangalore and Mainz have now demonstrated in an experiment that captured ions can also be cooled through contact with cold atoms and may thus be stored in so-called ion traps in a stable condition for longer periods of time.
Nov 27th, 2012
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This video presents the barriers nanoparticles need to overcome to reach tumor cells and current strategies being considered in research labs to help them along the way.
Nov 26th, 2012
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