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Researchers 3D-Print Objects Showing Dichroic Effect

From the time of the Roman Empire, the use of metallic nanoparticles as glass colorant is well known. The Lycurgus cup is one of the familiar pieces of pottery from the Roman Empire.

15 Feb 2019

Researchers Investigate Life of Magnetic Nanoparticles Within Cells

Magnetic nanoparticles are being extensively used in tissue bioengineering and cell imaging, yet, what happens to them inside stem cells, in the long run, is still not documented.

14 Feb 2019

National Graphene Institute and LifeSaver Sign New Research Project to Advance Graphene Technology

The University of Manchester’s National Graphene Institute (NGI) and LifeSaver®, a UK-based manufacturer of reusable and portable water filtration systems, have signed a new research project to develop graphene technology.

14 Feb 2019

Nano Drops a Million Times Smaller than a Teardrop Explodes 19th Century Theory

Droplets emanating from a molecular “nano-tap” would behave very differently from those from a household tap 1 million times larger - researchers at the University of Warwick have found.

14 Feb 2019

Nanoscale Fingerprinting Using Hyperbolic Metamaterials

Hyperbolic metamaterials are structures created artificially by depositing alternating thin layers of a conductor such as graphene or silver onto a substrate.

13 Feb 2019

Researchers Create Tough Versions of Laser-Induced Graphene Composites

Laser-induced graphene, or LIG in short, is a flaky foam of carbon that measures only one atom thick. It possesses a number of interesting characteristics on its own, but as part of a composite, it is also capable of gaining new powers.

13 Feb 2019

New Composite Nanomaterial Holds Promise in Instrumentation Engineering, Aviation, and Aerospace

Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University scientist, Dmitriy Serebrennikov took out a patent on his invention in physics Composite Invar materials of a new type on January 2019. Materials, which contain both Invar and functional properties, are extremely in demand in instrumentation engineering, aviation, radio-electronic equipment, and aerospace sector.

12 Feb 2019

Researchers Synthesize First Metal-Organic Framework Around Light-Powered Aluminum Nanocatalysts

Two years ago, when Hossein Robatjazi, a Rice University chemist and engineer, intended to combine a molecular sieve known as metal-organic framework (MOF) with a plasmonic aluminum nanoparticle, he never thought the outcome would be the same process used by nature to petrify wood.

11 Feb 2019

Researchers Manage to Produce Devices with Stable Germanene

Germanene is a 2D material that is obtained from germanium and is associated with graphene. Since it is unstable outside the vacuum chambers where it is developed, no real measurements of its electronic properties have been performed.

8 Feb 2019

Progress in Self-Assembling Nanomaterials

Collaboration between material scientists, biologists and chemists could advance the development of self-assembling nanomaterials, called nanoarchitectonics, argues a review in the journal Science and Technology of Advanced Materials.

8 Feb 2019