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Ultrastrong Polyethylene Nanofibers

Researchers have recently introduced a fabrication method known as gel electrospinning to create superior nanofibers.

16 Jan 2018

Specially Designed Nanoparticles Deliver Drugs to Deepest Tumor Regions

Despite herculean efforts, cancer remains a formidable disease, with each malignant subtype responding differently to therapeutics.

11 Jan 2018

Using Silver Nanoparticles to Enhance Raman Spectroscopy

By organizing silver nanoparticles on nanowires in specific arrangements, molecular detection of Raman spectroscopy at low concentrations has been enhanced.

8 Jan 2018

Strategy for Synthesizing Low-Dimensional Polyion Complex Nanomaterials with Various Morphologies

Artificial polyelectrolytes can copy interactions of biological macromolecules and could become platforms for delivering proteins, drugs, or nucleic acids.

5 Jan 2018

Study Emphasizes Importance of Clean Carbon Nanotubes to Maximize Their Usefulness

Carbon nanotubes need to be as clean as possible to maximize usefulness in nanoscale devices. Contact effects may restrict how tiny nano devices can be.

5 Jan 2018

Silver Nanoparticles Used to Enhance Raman Signals by Hundred Thousand Times

Researchers have enhanced molecular detection at low concentration levels by positioning nanoparticles on nanowires in order to improve Raman spectroscopy.

4 Jan 2018

New Process can Change Two-Layer Graphene into Diamond-Hard Material on Impact

Visualize a material as lightweight and flexible as foil that turns hard and stiff enough to stop a bullet on impact. In a recently published paper in Nature Nanotechnology, researchers across The City University of New York (CUNY) report a process for making diamene: flexible, layered sheets of graphene that become harder than diamond and impenetrable upon impact on a temporary basis.

19 Dec 2017

Research Shows that Semiconductor Nanocrystals Undergo Thermally Activated Delayed Photoluminescence

Researchers from North Carolina State University have found that the transfer of triplet excitons from nanomaterials to molecules also creates a feedback mechanism that returns some energy to the nanocrystal, causing it to photoluminesce on long time scales.

19 Dec 2017

Scientists Find Mathematical Method to Calculate Superconducting Transition Temperature of Carbon Nanotubes

Scientists from Ural Federal University (UrFU) together with their colleagues from Lomonosov Moscow State University found out the mathematical method to calculate the temperature at which single walled carbon nanotubes became superconductors and developed a way to increase it thus opening new prospects for superconductive materials application.

19 Dec 2017

Researchers Detect Graphene’s Out-Of-Plane Heat Transfer in Layered Material Heterostructures

Graphene Flagship scientists, led by researchers at ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences in Barcelona, Spain, have detected graphene’s out-of-plane heat transfer in van der Waals heterostructures.

19 Dec 2017

Nanomaterials News

Ultrastrong Polyethylene Nanofibers

Specially Designed Nanoparticles Deliver Drugs to Deepest Tumor Regions

Using Silver Nanoparticles to Enhance Raman Spectroscopy

Strategy for Synthesizing Low-Dimensional Polyion Complex Nanomaterials with Various Morphologies

Study Emphasizes Importance of Clean Carbon Nanotubes to Maximize Their Usefulness

Silver Nanoparticles Used to Enhance Raman Signals by Hundred Thousand Times

New Process can Change Two-Layer Graphene into Diamond-Hard Material on Impact

Research Shows that Semiconductor Nanocrystals Undergo Thermally Activated Delayed Photoluminescence

Scientists Find Mathematical Method to Calculate Superconducting Transition Temperature of Carbon Nanotubes

Researchers Detect Graphene’s Out-Of-Plane Heat Transfer in Layered Material Heterostructures

Revolutionizing Superconductivity: 60K Temperature Findings

Archer Improves the Functionality of Its 12CQ Quantum Project with International Partners

New Magnetic Nanodiscs for Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation

Improving Aluminum Alloy 7075 Casting with TiC Nanoparticles

New Technique Boosts Efficiency of Eco-Friendly Solar Cells

Conversations on AFM: The Technology and History Behind AFM and SPM

Recent Advances in High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy to Improve Research Into Protein Dynamics

Applying AI-Driven Solutions to Semiconductor Digital Design

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