Surfaces with differently shaped nanoscale textures may yield improved materials for applications in transportation, energy, and diagnostics.
Posted: Oct 21st, 2013
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High power conversion of new solar cells that are thin, flexible, and transparent makes them ideal for a wealth of new applications.
Posted: Oct 21st, 2013
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Instead of having to use tons of crushing force and volcanic heat to forge diamonds, researchers at Case Western Reserve University have developed a way to cheaply make nanodiamonds on a lab bench at atmospheric pressure and near room temperature.
Posted: Oct 21st, 2013
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Johns Hopkins researchers used suction to learn that individual "molecular muscles" within cells respond to different types of force, a finding that may explain how cells "feel" the environment and appropriately adapt their shapes and activities. A computer model the researchers developed also lets them predict what a cell will do in response to altered levels of those "muscles," a common occurrence in a variety of cancers.
Posted: Oct 21st, 2013
Read moreFlexible displays, cost-efficient solar cells for a new era of energy production, futuristic lighting at home - all require thin layers with specific properties. Scientists at the Leibniz Institute for New Materials are exploring new routes to such coatings in NanoSPEKT, a project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
Posted: Oct 21st, 2013
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Standardized technique opens remarkable opportunities for 'mix and match' materials fabrication
Posted: Oct 20th, 2013
Read moreResearchers have created a lithium-air secondary battery with five times greater storage than lithium-ion secondary batteries by developing a nanofiber-graphene composite catalyst.
Posted: Oct 18th, 2013
Read moreA South Korean joint industrial-academic research team has developed the technology to put forward the commercialization of nanowire that is only a few nanometers wide. It is expected to be applied in various fields such as semiconductors, high performance sensors, and biodevices.
Posted: Oct 18th, 2013
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Rows of aluminium studs help solar panels extract more energy from sunlight than those with flat surfaces.
Posted: Oct 18th, 2013
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A Comprehensive Collaborative Agreement was signed by Prof. Dave Blank of NanoNextNL and Prof. Sukekatsu Ushioda of NIMS to pursue collaboration in the fields of mutual activity in nanotechnology area.
Posted: Oct 18th, 2013
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Materials in lithium ion battery electrodes expand and contract during charge and discharge. These volume changes drive particle fracture, which shortens battery lifetime. A group of ETH and PSI scientists have quantified this effect for the first time using high-resolution 3D movies recorded using x-ray tomography at the Swiss Light Source.
Posted: Oct 17th, 2013
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Graphene may command the lion's share of attention but it is not the only material generating buzz in the electronics world. Vanadium dioxide is one of the few known materials that acts like an insulator at low temperatures but like a metal at warmer temperatures starting around 67 degrees Celsius. This temperature-driven metal-insulator transition, the origin of which is still intensely debated, in principle can be induced by the application of an external electric field. That could yield faster and much more energy efficient electronic devices.
Posted: Oct 17th, 2013
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The combination of heat, chemotherapeutic drugs and an innovative delivery system based on nanotechnology may significantly improve the treatment of ovarian cancer while reducing side effects from toxic drugs, researchers at Oregon State University report in a new study.
Posted: Oct 17th, 2013
Read moreAn ultrathin nanogenerator can serve as an active sensor for detecting tiny skin deformation.
Posted: Oct 17th, 2013
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A researcher from the University of Twente MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology has developed an optical information carrier that can store information for extremely long periods of time, with each bit being written using etching techniques.
Posted: Oct 17th, 2013
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In lab experiments, Taxol, a chemotherapy drug used to treat ovarian cancer, was loaded onto a magneto-electric nanoparticle, and using an electric field the drug penetrated into the tumor cells completely destroying the tumor within 24 hours, while sparing normal ovarian cells.
Posted: Oct 17th, 2013
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