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New Nanoparticle Measuring Devices Developed by Atomic Blasting Technique

Similar to sandblasting at the nanometer scale, focused beams of ions ablate hard materials in order to develop intricate three-dimensional patterns.

15 Dec 2017

Researchers Use Single-Stranded DNA, RNA to Create Self-Assembling Nanostructures

Nanotechnologists are making use of DNA, the genetic material that is present in living organisms, as well as its multifunctional counterpart RNA, as the raw material in attempts to design miniscule devices that could potentially function as drug delivery vehicles, miniature nanofactories for the production of chemicals and pharmaceuticals, or extremely sensitive elements of optical and electric technologies.

15 Dec 2017

Wet Plasma for Use in High-Yield Synthesis of Nanomaterials

Silicon microelectronics and biomedical domains could gain from a safe and economical way to synthesize nanoparticles.

12 Dec 2017

Simple Method to Deposit Magnetite Nanoparticles onto Silica-Coated Gold Nanorods

Researchers from MIT and North Carolina State University have discovered a more simple method to deposit magnetic iron oxide, or magnetite, nanoparticles onto silica-coated gold nanorods, making multifunctional nanoparticles with useful optical and magnetic properties.

12 Dec 2017

Caltech Team Manages to “Paint” Smallest Mona Lisa Using DNA

Caltech's Paul Rothemund (BS '94)—currently research professor of bioengineering, computing and mathematical sciences, and computation and neural systems—developed a technique to fold a long strand of DNA into a prescribed shape way back in 2006.

7 Dec 2017

Innovative Strategy for Isolating Ring-Shaped Molecules from Linear Ones

The distinction between rings formed of the same material and linear chains is that although the molecular building blocks are similar, from a mathematical point of view, topologies of the two structures, that is, linear chain and ring, are distinct.

7 Dec 2017

Researchers Improve Supercapacitance of VGNs by Using Hybrid Electrolyte

Supercapacitors have the ability to store more energy than batteries and are favored in the place of batteries due to their potential to charge quickly, largely because of the vertical graphene nanosheets (VGNs) that are huge and located close to each other.

6 Dec 2017

Defect Densities in Graphene Layers Revealed Using New Technique

A Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) researcher has been taking part in the development of a technique that establishes the density of defects in two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials because of measurements of spatial coherence of light that strike them.

6 Dec 2017

Researchers Discover Nanomaterial’s Huge Cryptographic Potential

Researchers at New York University Tandon School of Engineering report a new group of unclonable cyber security primitives composed of an economical nanomaterial with the maximum possible level of structural randomness.

30 Nov 2017

Adding Tin to Nanoparticle’s Germanium Core Allows Particles to Absorb More Light

Germanium nanoparticles with enhanced photoluminescence have been developed by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, making them potentially promising materials for solar cells and imaging probes.

30 Nov 2017