Eden Steven, a physicist at Florida State University's MagLab facility, discovered that simple methods can result in surprising and environmentally friendly high-tech outcomes during his experiments with spider silk and carbon nanotubes.
Posted: Sep 13th, 2013
Read more
What if you could reach through a microscope to touch and feel the microscopic structures under the lens? In a breakthrough that may usher in a new era in the exploration of the worlds that are a million times smaller than human beings, researchers at Université Pierre et Marie Curie in France have unveiled a new technique that allows microscope users to manipulate samples using a technology known as 'haptic optical tweezers'.
Posted: Sep 13th, 2013
Read more
A new, environmentally-friendly electronic alloy consisting of 50 aluminum atoms bound to 50 atoms of antimony may be promising for building next-generation 'phase-change' memory devices, which may be the data-storage technology of the future.
Posted: Sep 13th, 2013
Read moreThis document follows on from a report published by the Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials (WPMN), entitled 'Important Issues on Risk Assessment of Manufactured Nanomaterials'.
Posted: Sep 13th, 2013
Read more
The precise mechanisms governing the relationships between superconductivity and magnetism were examined by using advanced scanning tunneling microscopy.
Posted: Sep 13th, 2013
Read moreScientists at Aalto University have measured the low but non-zero friction of droplets moving on slippery water-repellent surfaces.
Posted: Sep 13th, 2013
Read more
Using colloidal lead sulfide nanocrystal quantum dot substances, NRL researchers achieve the highest recorded open-circuit voltages for quantum dot solar cells to date.
Posted: Sep 13th, 2013
Read more
Energy losses in nanowire solar cell can be significantly reduced by 'cleaning' the surface of the cells with a special etching method. This has been shown by researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology, Delft University of Technology and Philips. The solar cell has an efficiency of 11.1%, putting it just below the current world record, but it was reached with much less use of material.
Posted: Sep 13th, 2013
Read more
By inserting platinum atoms into an organic semiconductor, University of Utah physicists were able to 'tune' the plastic-like polymer to emit light of different colors - a step toward more efficient, less expensive and truly white organic LEDs for light bulbs of the future.
Posted: Sep 13th, 2013
Read more
Real-time observations of lithium-oxygen electrochemical reactions could aid development of lightweight rechargeable batteries for electric vehicles.
Posted: Sep 13th, 2013
Read more
It is difficult to make graphene in forms needed for electronics. Now, researchers from Stanford University have found a new method of making graphene by chemically converting DNA templates into flat sheets of carbon, potentially overcoming that limitation.
Posted: Sep 13th, 2013
Read moreReport finds mixed progress on advancing a research agenda for environmental, health, and safety aspects of nanomaterials; Oversight by single agency could Oovercome barriers to implementation.
Posted: Sep 12th, 2013
Read more
At just a molecule thick, it's a new record: The world's thinnest sheet of glass, a serendipitous discovery by scientists at Cornell and Germany's University of Ulm, is recorded for posterity in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Posted: Sep 12th, 2013
Read moreThe EDGE-SUNY CNSE partnership is designed to accelerate the attraction of next-generation 450mm computer chip manufacturing to the Mohawk Valley by deploying Governor Andrew Cuomo's publicly-led and publicly-managed public-private partnership model that he first introduced with the CNSE Global 450mm Consortium (G450C).
Posted: Sep 12th, 2013
Read more
Scientists have moved liquid droplets using long chemical gradients formed on graphene. The change in concentration of either fluorine or oxygen formed using a simple plasma-based process either pushes or pulls droplets of water or nerve agent simulant across the surface. This new achievement offers potential applications ranging from electronics to mechanical resonators to bio/chemical sensors.
Posted: Sep 12th, 2013
Read more
An international team of researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands is advancing a novel form of nanopore technology for DNA sequencing as a result of a $2.47 million grant awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Posted: Sep 12th, 2013
Read more
Subscribe to our Nanotechnology Research News feed
Engage with our Nanotechnology News on Facebook