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Researchers Observe Second Level of Fluorescence in Carbon Nanotubes

The fact that carbon nanotubes exhibit fluorescence is well known. However, it is surprising and potentially useful to find a second level of fluorescence. A new study has now revealed how that works.

4 Dec 2020

Graphene-Based Heat Pipes can Help Solve the Problems of Cooling Electronics

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have found that graphene-based heat pipes can help solve the problems of cooling electronics and power systems used in avionics, data centres, and other power electronics.

4 Dec 2020

New Microscope Technique Provides a Detailed View of Droplet Nucleation Process

Nucleation is a ubiquitous phenomenon that governs the formation of both droplets and bubbles in systems used for condensation, desalination, water splitting, crystal growth, and many other important industrial processes.

3 Dec 2020

Research Provides a New Route for Generating Graphene Plasmon Polaritons

Graphene, an atomically thin carbon layer through which electrons can travel virtually unimpeded, has been extensively studied since its first successful isolation more than 15 years ago.

3 Dec 2020

Research Shows a Simple and Elegant Way to Boost Production of Carbon Nanotubes

Skoltech researchers have investigated the procedure for catalyst delivery used in the most common method of carbon nanotube production, chemical vapor deposition (CVD), offering what they call a "simple and elegant" way to boost productivity and pave the way for cheaper and more accessible nanotube-based technology. The paper was published in the Chemical Engineering Journal.

2 Dec 2020

A Single Nanoparticle can Produce Laser Emissions at Low Power

Lasers are used in a range of everyday devices, harnessing the power of light molecules, photons, - lined up to form highly concentrated beams of light - to perform now common tasks such as scanning barcodes and removing tattoos.

2 Dec 2020

Using Fluorescent Nanosensors to Detect Bacteria

Researchers from Bochum, Göttingen, Duisburg and Cologne have developed a new method for detecting bacteria and infections. They use fluorescent nanosensors to track down pathogens faster and more easily than with established methods.

1 Dec 2020

New Study Could Help Design Smaller Nanophotonics Devices

The use of barcodes to label and recognize day-to-day items is quite usual similar to a trip to the supermarket. What if those barcodes are shrunk a million times, from millimeter to nanometer scale, to enable their use within living cells to label, recognize, and monitor the building blocks of life, or mixed with inks to avoid counterfeiting.

1 Dec 2020

DNA Nanotechnology Could Help Combat Antibiotics-Resistant Bacteria

Antibiotics are drugs that help prevent and treat bacterial infections. They have had a huge role to play in fighting infectious diseases such as pneumonia, typhoid fever, tuberculosis, and meningitis in the 20th century.

30 Nov 2020

Ionic Forcefield Prevents Proteins from Binding to Nanoparticles

Nanoparticles are promising drug delivery tools, offering the ability to administer drugs directly to a specific part of the body and avoid the awful side effects so often seen with chemotherapeutics.

26 Nov 2020

Quantum Nanodiamonds Could be Used for Ultrasensitive Diagnostics

The quantum sensing abilities of nanodiamonds can be used to improve the sensitivity of paper-based diagnostic tests, potentially allowing for earlier detection of diseases such as HIV, according to a study led by UCL researchers in the i-sense McKendry group.

26 Nov 2020

Lanthanide nanocrystals brighten molecular triplet excitons

NUS scientists have developed an approach to improve the generation and luminescent harvesting of molecular triplets by coupling them with lanthanide-doped nanoparticles. This innovation provides new insights on lanthanide nanocrystal-molecule interaction in the optoelectronic field.

26 Nov 2020

Carbon nanocomposites one step closer to practical industrial application

A research team from the Center for Design, Manufacturing and Materials at Skoltech has recently published a study focusing on multifunctional materials created through the addition of carbon nanoparticles to polymer mat...

26 Nov 2020

New Understanding of Light-Matter Interactions in Nanophotonic Materials

Physicists from the University of Konstanz, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich) and the University of Regensburg have successfully demonstrated that ultrashort electron pulses experience a quantum mechanical phase shift through their interaction with light waves in nanophotonic materials, which can uncover the nanomaterials' functionality. The corresponding experiments and results are reported in the latest issue of Science Advances.

25 Nov 2020

New Approach to Predict the Potential Toxicity of Industrial Nanoparticles

Our lungs are exposed to a multitude of hazardous airborne particles on a daily basis. Nanoparticles, due to their small size, may reach the sensitive alveolar region of the human lung and trigger inflammation even after a single inhalation leading to severe diseases such as heart disease, brain damage and lung cancer for prolonged exposure.

25 Nov 2020