Graphene on toast, anyone? (w/video)
Scientists create patterned graphene onto food, paper, cloth, cardboard.
Feb 13th, 2018
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Three's company: New alloy sets magnetism benchmark
Preliminary atomic moment results for new iron-cobalt-manganese thin film blow past decades-old record by potentially 50 percent.
Feb 13th, 2018
Read moreHigh-efficiency and low-cost nanocatalyst for water electrolysis
Researchers succeed in the development of alternative and cheapest anode material for excellent and ultra-stable alkaline water electrolysis.
Feb 13th, 2018
Read moreTechnique produces powerful nanoengineered DNA wire biosensors
Researchers reported a nanoengineering innovation that offers hope for treatment of cancer, infections and other health problems - conductive wires of DNA enhanced with gold which could be used to electrically measure hundreds of biological processes simultaneously.
Feb 13th, 2018
Read moreTissue paper sensors show promise for health care, entertainment, robotics
Engineers have used nanocomposite materials to turn tissue paper into a new kind of wearable sensor that can detect a pulse, a blink of an eye and other human movement.
Feb 13th, 2018
Read moreHybrid optics bring color imaging using ultrathin metalenses into focus
Scientists announced that they have successfully combined two different imaging methods - a type of lens designed for nanoscale interaction with lightwaves, along with robust computational processing - to create full-color images.
Feb 12th, 2018
Read moreToday's highest quality composite-piezoelectric
An international team of scientists has managed to develop a composite material that has the best piezoelectric properties today.
Feb 12th, 2018
Read moreTiny drug-delivering capsules could sustain transplanted insulin-producing cells
A drug-carrying microsphere within a cell-bearing microcapsule could be the key to transplanting insulin-secreting pig pancreas cells into human patients whose own cells have been destroyed by type I diabetes.
Feb 12th, 2018
Read moreUsing injectable self-assembled nanomaterials for sustained delivery of drugs
New injectable delivery system can slowly release drug carriers for months.
Feb 12th, 2018
Read moreCancer-fighting nanorobots programmed to seek and destroy tumors
Study shows first applications of DNA origami for nanomedicine.
Feb 12th, 2018
Read moreScalable two-dimensional materials advance future-gen electronics
Researchers have developed a multistep process to make single crystal atomically-thin films of tungsten diselenide across large-area sapphire substrates.
Feb 12th, 2018
Read morePreventing the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope from crashing into the surface of a material
Scientists believe they have addressed a long-standing problem troubling scientists and engineers for more than 35 years: How to prevent the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope from crashing into the surface of a material during imaging or lithography.
Feb 12th, 2018
Read moreNew process allows 3-D printing of nanoscale metal structures
Synthesizing organic scaffolds that contain metal ions enables 3-D printing of metallic structures that are orders of magnitude smaller than previously possible.
Feb 12th, 2018
Read moreResearchers invented light-emitting nanoantennas based on halide perovskites
Researchers have managed to combine a nanoantenna and a light source in a single nanoparticle. It can generate, enhance and route emission via excited resonant modes coupled with excitons.
Feb 12th, 2018
Read moreRubber blanket at an atomic level
Scientists have successfully measured the distortions in 2D materials at microscopic level, which means it is now possible to observe precisely (point for point) how the properties of a material may be altered as a result of a simple distortion.
Feb 12th, 2018
Read moreMetasurfaces enable improved optical lens performance
Producing the perfect color images we need and love often requires multiple, heavy lenses so that each color focuses in exactly the same plane. Now engineers have developed a new theory that solves the problem using a single thin lens comprised of gradient index materials and metasurface layers to properly direct the light.
Feb 9th, 2018
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