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Graphene Made from Tire Waste be Used to Strengthen Concrete

This could be where the rubber truly hits the road. Rice University scientists have optimized a process to convert waste from rubber tires into graphene that can, in turn, be used to strengthen concrete.

30 Mar 2021

New Method Uses Lasers to Control Movement of Nanodiamonds with Fluorescent Centers

For a long time, researchers have been working on enhancing their potential to make use of lasers to move small objects without really touching them.

29 Mar 2021

New Technique Helps Create Highly Organized Palladium Nanowires

Nanowires are, undoubtedly, crucial components for next-generation sensors, nanoelectronics, and nanomedicine.

29 Mar 2021

Study Shows How Nanocrystals Self-Organize into Stable State

Generally, when crystals are grown, atoms will initially combine together into tiny clusters. This process is referred to as nucleation.

26 Mar 2021

Researchers Map the Properties of Nanostructured Materials for the First Time in 3D

On the nanometric scale (one billionth of a metre), materials can feature new properties. A French team together with an Austrian one recently took an important step forward by mapping one of these properties for the first time in 3D.

26 Mar 2021

Novel Automatic Process Enables More Accurate Assessment of Nanofiber Fabrication

Nanofibers, which are imbued with unique mechanical, electric, and other physical properties because of their small size, are regarded as the cutting-edge technology in water quality control, clean energy, and biomedical engineering, among others.

25 Mar 2021

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

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

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

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