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New Method to Remotely Control Folding of 2D Sheets into 3D Structures

Researchers from North Carolina State University have discovered a new method to remotely control the process employed by a two-dimensional (2D) sheet to fold itself into a three-dimensional (3D) structure. The team came up with this discovery by drawing inspirations from origami.

6 Mar 2017

Researchers Develop Bioinspired Technique to Transform Natural Proteins into Robust Complex Materials

A research team from the School of Engineering at Tufts University has invented an innovative bioinspired method to transform silk protein into robust and ultralight complex materials that can be easily programmed at the macro-, micro-, and nano-scales.

28 Feb 2017

Mass Spectrometry Performance Improved by Triboelectric Nanogenerators

Mechanical energy harvested from the environment is converted into electricity by triboelectric nanogenerators (TENG). This electricity is used to recharge consumer electronics or powering small devices such as sensors.

28 Feb 2017

Researchers Use Confined Nanoparticles to Enhance Hydrogen Storage Materials Performance

The concept of going small to win big was applied in an approach developed by a multilab, interdisciplinary team in which they used nanoparticles and a unique nanoconfinement system to formulate a method to modify hydrogen storage properties.

27 Feb 2017

Research on Hyperspectral Infrared Nanoimaging

The development of hyperspectral infrared nanoimaging has been reported by a team of researchers from the Basque institutions CIC nanoGUNE, Ikerbasque and Cidetec, and the German Robert Koch-Institut.

24 Feb 2017

Study on In-Plane Nanoantennas for Fluorescence Enhancement

Valentin Flauraud and co-authors are now congratulated for their publication in Nano Letters entitled "In-Plane Plasmonic Antenna Arrays with Surface Nanogaps for Giant Fluorescence Enhancement".

21 Feb 2017

Researchers Perform Experimental Validation of Heat Transport at the Nanoscale

The phenomenon of heat transport is highly significant as its regulation, for example, is inevitable for efficient cooling of smaller chips.

20 Feb 2017

UCLA Physicists Mapped Coordinates of Numerous Individual Atoms in Nanoparticle

Perfection is very rate in the world of the minuscule: nearly all materials have flaws on the atomic level. Imperfections such as atoms of one type swapped for another, missing atoms, and

2 Feb 2017

Researchers Gain Insights into How Melting Occurs in 2D Systems

A fact known worldwide is that in Winter snow falls, and in Spring, it melts. However, the question remains how is this phase change driven?

2 Feb 2017

STEDD Nanoscopy Method for High-Resolution Background-Free Imaging

A new fluorescence microscopy technique known as Stimulation Emission Double Depletion (STEDD) nanoscopy, which is a further development of the Simulated Emission Depletion (STED) method, has been developed by researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

2 Feb 2017