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Flexible nanogenerators for energy harvesting applications

New research helps pave the way toward highly energy-efficient zinc oxide-based micro energy harvesting devices with applications in portable communications, healthcare and environmental monitoring, and more.

Jan 13th, 2015

Photonic crystal nanolaser biosensor simplifies DNA detection

New device offers a simpler and potentially less expensive way to detect DNA and other biomolecules through changes in surface charge density or solution pH.

Jan 13th, 2015

Physicists create superatom

Under appropriate conditions, a cloud of several hundred atoms can behave like a single atom, virtually developing super-power. Upon excitation with an ultraviolet laser into highly excited states, the atoms start to interact with each other.

Jan 13th, 2015

Novel multiferroic materials and devices integrated with silicon chips

A research team has made two advances in multiferroic materials, including the ability to integrate them on a silicon chip, which will allow the development of new electronic memory devices. The researchers have already created prototypes of the devices and are in the process of testing them.

Jan 13th, 2015

Biomedicine: Worth its weight in nanogold

In order to harness nanogold's potential, researchers have to make sense of its structures and behaviours, which are in many ways completely different from those of typical chunks of gold.

Jan 13th, 2015

'NanoVelcro' and temperature control used to extract tumor cells from blood

An international group of scientists has developed a new method for effectively extracting and analyzing cancer cells circulating in patients' blood.

Jan 13th, 2015

Penn State Center for Nanoscience awarded $15 million research grant

The Penn State Center for Nanoscale Science, a National Science Foundation Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC), has been awarded a six-year, $15 million grant to continue its research and education program in the development and application of nanoscale materials.

Jan 12th, 2015

New catalyst process uses light, not metal, for rapid polymerization

Researchers develop a metal-free atom transfer radical polymerization process that uses an organic-based photocatalyst.

Jan 12th, 2015

Progress review in the materials science of silicene

Silicene is the thinnest form of silicon. It is metallic, has graphene-like mobile carriers and can behave like a semiconductor. The material could lead to even smaller electronics but challenges remain.

Jan 12th, 2015

Solar cells - Maximum efficiency, minimum materials and complexity

Silicon-based thin-film solar cell with a supplementary organic layer can utilise infrared light as well.

Jan 12th, 2015

Water, water, everywhere - Controlling the properties of nanomaterials

Scientists are learning how the properties of water molecules on the surface of metal oxides can be used to better control these minerals and use them to make products such as more efficient semiconductors for organic light emitting diodes and solar cells, safer vehicle glass in fog and frost, and more environmentally friendly chemical sensors for industrial applications.