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Replicating Nanoscale Fluid-Transporting Structures of Desert Lizards

EU-funded LINABIOFLUID scientists studied desert-dwelling horned lizards by using electron microscopes.

8 Jul 2019

Spontaneous Synchronisation Achieved at the Nanoscale

Researchers from the ICN2 Phononic and Photonic Nanostructures Group have led a research which synchronised for the first time a couple of optomechanical oscillators.

5 Jul 2019

Nanoscale Pendulum Coupling Illustrated in New Research

In 1665, Lord Christiaan Huygens discovered that two pendulum clocks, placed in the same wooden structure, oscillated spontaneously and impeccably in line but in opposite directions: the clocks oscillated in anti-phase.

3 Jul 2019

Tiny Supersonic Jet Injector Speeds up Nanoscale Additive Manufacturing

Scientists have significantly quickened the fabrication of nanoscale structures by energizing precursor molecules using a minute, high-energy supersonic jet of inert gas.

3 Jul 2019

Researchers Develop Nanobio-Hybrid Microbes Capable of Converting CO2 Into Plastics

CU Boulder researchers have developed nanobio-hybrid organisms capable of using airborne carbon dioxide and nitrogen to produce a variety of plastics and fuels, a promising first step toward low-cost carbon sequestration and eco-friendly manufacturing for chemicals.

29 Jun 2019

Low-Temperature Method to Make High-Performance Thermoelectric Materials

A low-cost nanomaterial created at KAUST could be used to recapture some of the enormous amounts of waste heat that devices and machines emit.

28 Jun 2019

Making Music from Proteins (Video)

Composers string notes of different pitch and duration together to create music. Similarly, cells join amino acids with different characteristics together to make proteins.

27 Jun 2019

Multi-Wavelength Instrument Improves Nanoparticle Analysis Specificity

Analytik has launched the next generation ZetaView® QUATT, with a multi-wavelength video tracking microscope for rapid analysis of size, concentration, fluorescence, electrophoretic mobility and sub-populations of individual nanoparticles.

From Analytik Ltd 24 Jun 2019

Study Illustrates Current Status and Future Prospects of Ice Lithography

Nanofabrication facilitates nanoscience and nanotechnology. One of the founding stones of nanofabrication is electron-beam lithography (EBL), which involves making patterns down to a few nanometers.

24 Jun 2019

Advanced NMR Exposes New Facts About Nanoparticle Structures

At the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, advanced nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) methods have exposed unexpected details about the structure of a core group of materials in nanotechnology — mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) — and the placement of their active chemical sites.

21 Jun 2019