Scientists create a super antioxidant with nanoparticles
Common catalyst cerium oxide opens door to nanochemistry for medicine.
Posted: Oct 15th, 2013
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An optical switch based on a single nanodiamond
ICFO scientists have shown that a nano-size diamond at room temperature can act as an efficient optical switch controllable with light.
Posted: Oct 15th, 2013
Read moreLicensing deal marks coming of age for nanopore sequencing technology
The University of Alabama at Birmingham has licensed to Illumina Inc. the rights to a DNA sequencing technology developed by a UAB microbiologist and a University of Washington physicist.
Posted: Oct 15th, 2013
Read moreNewly discovered mechanism propels micromotors
Tiny clusters of particles zip forward, spin, or circle depending on their shape.
Posted: Oct 15th, 2013
Read moreToward a power-saving memory device using skyrmions as recording bits
RIKEN, the University of Tokyo and NIMS revealed that the size and helicity of a skyrmion, a magnetic structure consisting of electron spins arranged in a vortex shape, can be controlled by changing the concentration ratio of manganese and iron in Mn1-xFexGe.
Posted: Oct 15th, 2013
Read moreHalas, Nordlander recognized for pioneering nanophotonics research
The American Physical Society has awarded Rice University researchers Naomi Halas and Peter Nordlander the 2014 Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids in recognition of their groundbreaking research in nanophotonics.
Posted: Oct 14th, 2013
Read moreLynn Davis wins award for work in nanotechnology
Lynn Davis, Ph.D., director of the Nano-enabled Devices Program at RTI International, won the 1906 Award from the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).
Posted: Oct 14th, 2013
Read moreMore information from Raman scattering
Mapping of the chemical contents and their spatial distribution in a complex biological environment such as cells can be achieved by a new imaging modality: time-lens based hyperspectral stimulated Raman scattering.
Posted: Oct 14th, 2013
Read moreTriboelectric nanogenerator extracts energy from ocean waves
Researchers are aiming to use ocean waves to produce energy by making use of contact electrification between a patterned plastic nanoarray and water. They have introduced an inexpensive and simple prototype of a triboelectric nanogenerator that could be used to produce energy and as a chemical or temperature sensor.
Posted: Oct 14th, 2013
Read moreNanotechnology team writes artificial cell membranes onto graphene
Researchers around Dr. Michael Hirtz from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and Dr. Aravind Vijayaraghavan from the University of Manchester have developed a new method to produce artificial membranes: Using a nanoscaled tip, they write tailored patches of phospholipid membrane onto a graphene substrate.
Posted: Oct 14th, 2013
Read moreAdhesion at 180,000 frames per second
Scientists of Kiel University unravel widespread natural adhesion system.
Posted: Oct 14th, 2013
Read moreFree UK Nanotechnology Directory 2013 now available from nanoKTN
Free Guidebook to the UK's World Class Micro and Nanotechnology (MNT) Sector.
Posted: Oct 12th, 2013
Read moreQuantum conductors benefit from growth on smooth foundations
Researchers in the United States and China have teamed to develop a speedway for future devices, an exotic type of electrical conductor called a topological insulator (TI). In a new paper in the journal AIP Advances, the international collaborators report that they grew two types of TI materials inside an ultra-high vacuum chamber on both smooth and rough surfaces and then evaluated their abilities to transport electrons.
Posted: Oct 11th, 2013
Read moreInnovative thermosensitive self-heating composite hydrogel concept for knee cartilage treatment
Researchers have developed a material that can be used for the controlled release of a substance when subjected to cyclic mechanical loading.
Posted: Oct 11th, 2013
Read moreTurning vapors into foam-like polymer coatings
A researcher at the University of Rochester has developed a process to grow highly customizable coatings of foam-like polymers.
Posted: Oct 11th, 2013
Read moreGraphene Flagship has set sails
The Graphene Flagship - one of Europe's first ten-year, 1,000 million Euro flagships in Future and Emerging Technologies - was launched during a ceremony in Gothenburg today.
Posted: Oct 11th, 2013
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