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High Pressure Reactor Improves Development of Novel Catalysts

The Chianese Organometallic Chemistry group at Colgate University (Hamilton, NY, USA) are using a custom designed Multicell Parallel High-Pressure Reactor from Asynt to conduct reproducible hydrogenation experiments in parallel, to rapidly determine the kinetic properties of their novel catalysts.

From Asynt 13 May 2020

Study Demonstrates Strong Binding Properties of Nanocelluloses

Tiny fibrils derived from plants have gained considerable attention. Such nanomaterials have exhibited great potential in outshining plastics, and even substituting them.

12 May 2020

Study Unravels Versatility of Cohesion Led by Nanocelluloses

Cohesion, the ability to keep things together, from the scale of nanoparticles to building sites is inherent to these nanofibrils, which can act as mortar to a nearly infinite type of particles as described in the study.

12 May 2020

Study Shows Triangular Graphene Flake Acts as Small, Pure Carbon Paramagnet

Graphene is a diamagnetic material, this is, unable of becoming magnetic. However, a triangular piece of graphene is predicted to be magnetic.

12 May 2020

First Graphene and planarTECH Collaborate to Develop a Scaled Supply Chain for the Production of Graphene Face Masks

First Graphene Ltd, the leading global producer of advanced graphene products and planarTECH Ltd, a global leader in graphene process equipment and graphene-enabled products agree to collaborate on graphene enhanced personal protective equipment (PPE) products.

From First Graphene Ltd. 11 May 2020

TiO2 Infused with Gold Nanoparticles has Improved Photocatalytic Properties

Oxides of different metals often serve as photocatalysts in various systems such as air purification, reactions of water decomposition and even in the production of self-cleaning surfaces for glass and mirrors.

11 May 2020

Novel Technique for Manipulating Frequency of Confined Light at Nanoscale

An international team led by researchers from the University of Oviedo and the Centre for Research in Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology, together with scientist from the Basque research centers CIC nanoGUNE, DIPC, Materials Physics Center, and international collaborators from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Austrian Institute of Technology, Paris Materials Centre, and University of Tokyo has discovered an effective method for controlling the frequency of confined light at the nanoscale in the form of phonon polaritons.

11 May 2020

Picosun and A*STAR’s IME to Create Novel, High Performance Memories

Picosun Group, provider of the leading AGILE ALD® (Atomic Layer Deposition) thin film coating solutions for global industries, and A*STAR’s Institute of Microelectronics (IME), Singapore, strengthen their collaboration in next generation memory technologies.

From Picosun Oy 11 May 2020

Piezoelectric Properties Found in Lab-Grown, 2D Molybdenum Dioxide

Rice University researchers have found evidence of piezoelectricity in lab-grown, two-dimensional flakes of molybdenum dioxide.

8 May 2020

Study Offers New Insights on Dynamics of Spin Thermalization at Nanoscale

In physics, thermalization, or the trend of sub-systems within a whole to gain a common temperature, is typically the norm.

8 May 2020

Low-Power 2D Semiconductor Nanolasers Could Change the Future of Supercomputing

In his latest line of research, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University, and his peers explored the intricate balance of physics that governs how electrons, holes, excitons and trions coexist and mutually convert into each other to produce optical gain.

7 May 2020

Researchers Demonstrate Laser-Propulsion of Graphene Sails in Microgravity

Overseas exploration and trade during the Age of Discovery (15th-17th centuries) were possible by sail technology, and deep-space exploration will require the same for the coming Age of NewSpace.

7 May 2020

Nanohybrid Material Could be Activated Against Tumor Cells in Blood

When a tumor enters in the stage of regression and the patient is considered as healed, there often remains the fear of recurrence, a disease that unfortunately has a certain incidence.

5 May 2020

New Technology to Reveal Nanoscale Architectures of Specimen Constituents

Since Robert Hooke's first description of a cell in Micrographia 350 years ago, microscopy has played an important role in understanding the rules of life.

5 May 2020

The Advanced MateriaShow and Ceramics UK will Now Take Place on 2nd & 3rd December 2020, Stoneleigh UK

Due to the ongoing and developing situation regarding COVID-19 Event Partners, the show organisers, have made the decision to move The Advanced Materials Show and Ceramics UK and their co-located events Battery Cells & Systems Expo and Vehicle Electrification Expo to 2nd & 3rd December 2020.

From The Advanced Materials Show 5 May 2020