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An Efficient Metallic Nanowire Foam for Particulate Filtration

An Efficient Metallic Nanowire Foam for Particulate Filtration

During the COVID-19 pandemic, people have grown accustomed to wearing facemasks, but many coverings are fragile and not easily disinfected. Metal foams are durable, and their small pores and large surface areas suggest they could effectively filter out microbes. Now, researchers reporting in ACS' Nano Letters have transformed copper nanowires into metal foams that could be used in facemasks and air filtration systems. The foams filter efficiently, decontaminate easily for reuse and are recyclable.

25 Mar 2021

Wafer-Thin Stiff Nanopaper Becomes Soft at the Push of a Button

Wafer-Thin Stiff Nanopaper Becomes Soft at the Push of a Button

Materials science likes to take nature and the special properties of living beings that could potentially be transferred to materials as a model. A research team led by chemist Professor Andreas Walther of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has succeeded in endowing materials with a bioinspired property: Wafer-thin stiff nanopaper instantly becomes soft and elastic at the push of a button.

25 Mar 2021

Metal-Modified Nanocomposites Help Produce “Green” Hydrogen

Metal-Modified Nanocomposites Help Produce “Green” Hydrogen

For many years, sustainable catalysts that can play a key role in global Energiewende—that is, the phase-out of nuclear and fossil fuels—have been a proven research theme at the University of Bayreuth.

24 Mar 2021

Stacking and Twisting of Layered Graphene Forms Moiré Effect

Stacking and Twisting of Layered Graphene Forms Moiré Effect

Graphene is made of only a single layer of carbon atoms, and the discovery of this material was the starting point for a worldwide race: Currently, the so-called “2D materials” are made of various types of atoms.

24 Mar 2021

Study Demonstrates Forging of Graphene upon Exposure to Strong Laser Light

Study Demonstrates Forging of Graphene upon Exposure to Strong Laser Light

Graphene, a new impressive material, has been described as “the wonder material” due to the remarkable properties it exhibits.

23 Mar 2021

New Technique Helps Create Resilient Synthetic Nanoparticle-Based Materials

New Technique Helps Create Resilient Synthetic Nanoparticle-Based Materials

In association with Brookhaven National Laboratory, Columbia Engineering scientists have recently reported that they have fabricated nanoparticle-based 3D materials that can tolerate high radiations, high pressures, high temperatures, and vacuum.

22 Mar 2021

Switching to Long-Term Antimicrobial Nano-Coatings to Meet COVID-19 Secure Regulations

Switching to Long-Term Antimicrobial Nano-Coatings to Meet COVID-19 Secure Regulations

With the UK’s government’s ‘roadmap out of lockdown’, parents look to a return to school and hope lies in the vaccines leading to the easing of restrictions and some semblance of normal life - whilst the inevitable coronavirus spikes are contained.

19 Mar 2021

Hybrid Nanostructured Particles Show Promise for Treating Cancer

Hybrid Nanostructured Particles Show Promise for Treating Cancer

Scientists from the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) and their collaborators from Hadassah Medical Center have designed new hybrid nanostructured particles that may help fight cancer.

18 Mar 2021

Carboxylated Nanodiamonds Could be Applied for Future Cancer Treatment

Carboxylated Nanodiamonds Could be Applied for Future Cancer Treatment

Recently, researchers from China analyzed and found that carboxylated nanodiamonds (cNDs) could support the adhesion of tumor cells to the underlying substrate, thereby restricting the motility of tumor cells.

18 Mar 2021

Researchers Explain the Physics Behind New Nanowire Design

Researchers Explain the Physics Behind New Nanowire Design

The electron is one of the fundamental particles in nature we read about in school. Its behavior holds clues to new ways to store digital data.

17 Mar 2021

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