The EUFP7 Sustainable Nanotechnologies (SUN) project is currently developing the Technological Alternatives and Risk Management Measures (TARMM) inventory and are looking for companies to fill in a short survey of 12 questions.
Jun 8th, 2015
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Researchers have successfully developed perovskite solar cells with good reproducibility and stability as well as exhibiting ideal semiconducting properties.
Jun 8th, 2015
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Study results create new opportunities for nanoscale bolometry and calorimetry and could have a strong impact in the performance of conventional graphene devices.
Jun 8th, 2015
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Scientists are able to visualize and selectively modify the internal order of an intensively researched class of materials known as multiferroics. This opens the door to promising applications in electronics. The researchers are particularly interested in the walls of the ordered sections.
Jun 5th, 2015
Read moreTiny science. Big impacts. Cool videos. NNCO announces a winner from the University of Puerto Rico.
Jun 5th, 2015
Read morePhysics have found the 'formula' to construct a quantum thermometer with enough precision to detect minute fluctuations in temperature in regions as small as the inside of a cell.
Jun 5th, 2015
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Researchers have fabricated a silicon quantum dot-based hybrid inorganic/organic light-emitting diode (LED) that exhibits white-blue electroluminescence.
Jun 5th, 2015
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Scientists have successfully been able to transfer the experience from furnace to laboratory while synthesizing nanoscale materials using simple and highly efficient flame technology. This 'baking' of nanostructures has already been a great success using zinc oxide. The recent findings concentrate on tin oxide, which opens up a wide field of possible new applications.
Jun 5th, 2015
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Researchers have developed a universal encapsulation method to integrate those compounds into solid materials keeping their useful properties unaltered.
Jun 5th, 2015
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Researchers have studied the dynamics of active swarms using computer simulations and experiments on unicellular algae. The team not only found full analogy of the active motion in a field to magnetic hysteresis but also managed to quantify the controllability of the swarm and identify the signatures of collective behavior of the active agents.
Jun 5th, 2015
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A new review compiles the approaches that have been employed for reading and storing information in antiferromagnets and answers the question about how to write on antiferromagnetics successfully.
Jun 5th, 2015
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Prototype boosts production of versatile fibers fourfold, while cutting energy consumption by 92 percent.
Jun 5th, 2015
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Organic molecules reveal a universal behavior that governs the transition of many materials from an insulator to a conductor.
Jun 5th, 2015
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In tuning friction to the point where it disappears, technique could boost development of nanomachines.
Jun 4th, 2015
Read moreA lensless X-ray microscope has captured, in stunning detail, the first three-dimensional images of crystalline defects during crystal growth of a mineral, calcite.
Jun 4th, 2015
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Researchers have succeeded in developing a new microscope capable of observing the magnetic sensitivity of photochemical reactions believed to be responsible for the ability of some animals to navigate in the Earth's magnetic field, on a scale small enough to follow these reactions taking place inside sub-cellular structures.
Jun 4th, 2015
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