Long before humans figured out how to create colors, nature had already perfected the process - think stunning, bright butterfly wings of many different hues, for example. Now scientists are tapping into those secrets to develop a more environmentally friendly way to make colored plastics.
Jul 30th, 2014
Read moreA professor from Wayne State University's College of Engineering recently received a $330,000 award from the National Science Foundation for the project, 'Nanoparticle-directed synthesis of organic nanorods'.
Jul 30th, 2014
Read moreResearchers have demonstrated experimentally, for the first time, that samarium hexaboride is indeed a topological insulator.
Jul 30th, 2014
Read moreThe NNCO is now accepting questions related to the 'Progress Review on the Coordinated Implementation of the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) 2011 Environmental, Health, and Safety Research Strategy'.
Jul 30th, 2014
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Researchers announced that they had succeeded in creating a screw-shaped nanopropeller that can move in a gel-like fluid, mimicking the environment inside a living organism.
Jul 29th, 2014
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Researchers published the results of the first Cheshire Cat experiment, separating a neutron from its magnetic field.
Jul 29th, 2014
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Method can produce strong, lightweight materials with specific surface properties.
Jul 29th, 2014
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Researchers use graphene oxide to make ultralight foam.
Jul 29th, 2014
Read moreA new study investigates the effects of small but finite inertia on the propulsion of micro and nano-scale swimming machines.
Jul 29th, 2014
Read moreIn addition to biodegradability and the ability to be recovered and re-used, cellulose nanoparticles are light and cheap, and they have very desirable mechanical properties. Therefore, they have high potential to be used in pharmaceutics, foodstuff, cosmetics, paper production and composite manufacturing.
Jul 29th, 2014
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The use of new nanomaterials in tyre production could help foster the sustainability of the tyre industry and reduce the environmental impact of vehicles, if the potential environmental, health and safety risks of the technology are managed carefully, according to the new OECD report 'Nanotechnology and Tyres: Greening Industry and Transport'.
Jul 28th, 2014
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Researchers are using magnetic beads and DNA 'springs' to create chains of varying flexibility that can be used as microscale models for polymer macromolecules.
Jul 28th, 2014
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Strapping two individual electrons to two ions enabled Weizmann physicists to measure the magnetic interactions between them.
Jul 28th, 2014
Read moreAn elusive state of matter called superconductivity could be realized in stacks of sheetlike crystals just a few atoms thick, a trio of physicists has determined.
Jul 28th, 2014
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Researchers recently studied a class of Li-ion battery electrodes that have capacities much greater than those of the materials used in today's batteries. The researchers wanted to determine why these materials can often store more charge than theory predicts.
Jul 28th, 2014
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Researchers achieved a twentyfold amplification of single-photon signals with the help of an ultracold quantum gas.
Jul 28th, 2014
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