New substance can form in the OA process of crystal growth, new study reveals
Credit: LIU Yongfei and YANG Yong Chinese scientists have revealed that a new substance can form during the oriented attachment ...
Tag: Nanotechnology/Micromachines
Texas A&M chemists develop nanoscale bioabsorbable wound dressing
New material holds vast potential to save lives of soldiers and civiliansCredit: Texas A&M University Scientists at Texas A&M University ...
Leader in organic functional materials recognised
Professor Liu Bin, Head of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Faculty ...
Graphene to enable future space exploration
EU-funded 'Graphene Flagship' project completes zero-gravity experimentsCredit: Graphene Flagship Researchers embark on zero-gravity parabolic flights to test novel graphene-based thermal ...
Self-healing DNA nanostructures
Credit: Adapted from Nano Letters, 2019, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b00888 DNA assembled into nanostructures such as tubes and origami-inspired shapes could someday ...
Copenhagen researchers break quantum limit in precision of force and position measurements
Credit: Ola Joensen Researchers of the Schliesser Lab at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, have pushed the precision ...
Researchers have discovered how a nanocatalyst works at the atomic level
Credit: Sami Malola, University of Jyväskylä The researchers of the Nanoscience Center (NSC) at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, and ...
How small can they get? Polymers may be the key to single-molecule electronic devices
Credit: Angewandte Chemie Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology and University of Tsukuba demonstrate that polymers could play a key ...
Coming soon: A home blood test to better monitor chronic illnesses
Université de Montréal's Laboratory of Biosensors & Nanomachines, in partnership with Montreal company Nanogenecs Diagnostics, has just been awarded a ...
ASU team throws new light on photosynthetic supercomplex structure
Credit: Mary Zhu A team of scientists from Arizona State University has taken a significant step closer to unlocking the ...
Simple test can tell if you’re stressed out
University of Cincinnati engineers are developing a home-testing kit that can measure stress hormones in sweat, blood, urine or salivaCredit: ...
Quantum computing boost from vapour stabilising technique
The patented technique allows electrons to be used for quantum computing, high-precision measurements and other applications A technique to stabilise ...
Coming to your household soon: 3-D food printers, nano foods and bug burgers
UMass Amherst food scientist's new book, 'Future Foods,' explores how science is transforming the way we eatCredit: David Julian McClements ...
Carnegie Mellon researchers create soft, flexible materials with enhanced properties
Left: A single liquid metal nanodroplet grafted with polymer chains. Right: Schematic of polymer brushes grafted from the oxide layer ...
New boost for ToCoTronics
Credit: Graphic: Joerg Schaefer / University of Wuerzburg In 2015, physicists at Julius-Maximilians-Universität (JMU) Würzburg in Bavaria, Germany, succeeded in ...
Producing electricity at estuaries using light and osmosis
Credit: istock Most renewable power technologies are weather dependent. Wind farms can only operate when there's a breeze, and solar ...
Plumbene, graphene’s latest cousin, realized on the ‘nano water cube’
Credit: Junji Yuhara Two-dimensional materials made of Group 14 elements, graphene's cousins, have attracted enormous interest in recent years because ...
Artificial atomic scale materials: Discovering how electrons fatten!
A single and isolated electron has a clear electrical charge, magnetic moment and mass, and its free movement can be ...
New flatland material: Physicists obtain quasi-2D gold
Credit: Ella Maru Studio Researchers from the MIPT Center for Photonics and 2D Materials have synthesized a quasi-2D gold film, ...
The geometry of an electron determined for the first time
Credit: University of Basel, Departement of Physics Physicists at the University of Basel are able to show for the first ...
