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Research Experiments to Grow Carbon Nanotubes on Newspapers

A study conducted by scientists at Rice University in collaboration with scientists at the Energy Safety Research Institute (ESRI) at Swansea University has shown that single-walled carbon nanotubes can be grown extensively on old newspapers, which is a cheap, environmentally-friendly material.

25 Nov 2019

New, Faster Nanoscale 3D Printing Technique for Fabricating Smaller Structures

Researchers have developed a nanoscale 3D printing technique by using a new time-based method for controlling the light from an ultrafast laser.

4 Oct 2019

Haydale Awarded Funding to Develop Non-Metallic Gas Tanks for Spacecraft Propulsion Systems

Haydale has been awarded a technology de-risking project by the European Space Agency (ESA), to develop non-metallic gas tanks for spacecraft propulsion systems.

From Haydale Limited 17 Sep 2019

New Nanomachine can Rotate at Will and Transfer its Motion to Other Molecules

The year 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, and it could be said that the 20th century’s greatest science was all about big machines with the ability to voyage across the universe.

27 Aug 2019

Multi-Component Molecular Propeller Designed to Operate on Solid Surfaces

A group of researchers from Ohio University, Argonne National Laboratory, Universitié de Toulouse in France, and Nara Institute of Science and Technology in Japan, guided by Ohio Professor of Physics Saw-Wai Hla and Prof. Gwenael Rapenne from Toulouse, created a molecular propeller that induces unidirectional rotations on a material surface upon being energized.

21 Aug 2019

Strong and Weak GO Flakes can be Combined to Produce Better GO Paper

According to presumptions, developing a super-strong material from nano-scale building blocks requires the highest quality building blocks to start with. However, that is wrong—at least when researchers work with “flakes” of graphene oxide (GO).

19 Aug 2019

New Solution for High-Yield Nanowire Production from Zinc Oxide

Nanowires are meeting the requirements of the market for novel, smaller, flexible electronic devices by powering electronic circuits on the molecular scale; however, the arrangement of nanowires into functional materials is still a challenge.

13 Aug 2019

Direct After-Fabrication Tailoring of MoS2-FET transistors

Transition metal dichalcogenides are discrete 2D atomically thin layers bound together by Van der Waals forces.

9 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

Newly Developed Nanowires can Record Intracellular Signals

Machines are quite comfortable with human cells. Embeddable sensors record how and when neurons fire; neuron-like devices could even boost faster regrowth after being implanted in the brain; and electrodes spark heart cells to beat or brain cells to fire.

2 Jul 2019