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NanoGraphene Manufactures Its First Graphene in Sustainable Environmentally Friendly Plant

During the first half of July 2017, NanoGraphene Inc. manufactured its first graphene from its innovative plant newly set up at its unique facility located at Industry City in Brooklyn which is being established as an innovation center.

19 Jul 2017

Researchers Demonstrate that a New Catalyst Material for Electrolyzers is Reliable

Storage technologies that are efficient are considered to be essential if wind and solar energy is to help meet the increased energy demands. One vital approach refers to storage in the form of hydrogen extracted from water by using solar or wind energy.

18 Jul 2017

New Oxygen-Free Alloys Could Increase Performance of Biosensors, Semiconductors

A team of researchers at the University of Connecticut have discovered that decreasing oxygen in certain nanocrystalline materials may enhance their durability and strength at high temperatures, a potential enhancement that could result in faster jet engines, better biosensors, and greater capacity semiconductors.

18 Jul 2017

Scientists Succeed in Coupling Extremely Small Quantum Dot with Trumpet-Shaped Nanowire

Scientists from the Swiss Nanoscience Institute and the University of Basel have carried out successive coupling of an extremely tiny quantum dot with a trumpet-shaped nanowire that is 1,000 times larger.

18 Jul 2017

Pitt Chemical Engineering Researchers Explain the Formation of Metal Nanoparticles

The process of synthesizing nanoparticles is mostly trial and error, even though scientists have been able to synthesize nanoparticles in the lab for decades, and it is still difficult to understand how the formation actually takes place.

11 Jul 2017

Smart Polymer Changes Color and Activates Natural Antimicrobial Enzymes When Bacterial Contamination is Detected

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria that colonize medical equipment and surfaces are causing shocking annual rises in the number of patients becoming infected in clinics and hospitals. Efforts to reduce these numbers are now carried out by a KAUST team through the usage of a smart polymer capable of changing color and activating natural antimicrobial enzymes when bacterial contamination is identified.

10 Jul 2017

Researchers Demonstrate the Phenomena of Shape Memory and Self-Healing in Gold Microparticles

For the very first time, researchers from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and Germany have demonstrated the phenomena of shape memory and self-healing in gold microparticles.

10 Jul 2017

Bright Field Nanoscale Color Printing Using Silicon Nanostructures

Lately, nanoscale color printing has emerged as a unique substitute to traditional pigments by providing record spatial resolution, durable, angular independent and single material colors. Broadly based on plasmonic nanostructures, several attempts in the field have aimed at spreading color range and saturation based on a range of designs and metals.

10 Jul 2017

Squid-inspired Proteins can Function as Programmable Assemblers of 2D Materials

Squid-inspired proteins can be used as programmable assemblers of 2D materials, like graphene oxide, to develop hybrid materials with minute spacing between layers appropriate for high-efficiency devices including mechanical actuators, energy storage systems, and flexible electronics, according to an interdisciplinary group of Penn State researchers.

6 Jul 2017

Researchers Discover Nanoscale Particles that Ordinary Light Sources can Set Spinning

Science fiction deals with a number of fanciful devices that permit light to interact in a forceful manner with matter, from photon-drive rockets to light sabers. In the past few years, science has indeed begun to catch up; a few results hint at attractive real-world interactions between light and matter at atomic scales, and devices such as vortex beams, tweezers, and optical tractor beams have been developed by researchers.

3 Jul 2017

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NanoGraphene Manufactures Its First Graphene in Sustainable Environmentally Friendly Plant

Researchers Demonstrate that a New Catalyst Material for Electrolyzers is Reliable

New Oxygen-Free Alloys Could Increase Performance of Biosensors, Semiconductors

Scientists Succeed in Coupling Extremely Small Quantum Dot with Trumpet-Shaped Nanowire

Pitt Chemical Engineering Researchers Explain the Formation of Metal Nanoparticles

Smart Polymer Changes Color and Activates Natural Antimicrobial Enzymes When Bacterial Contamination is Detected

Researchers Demonstrate the Phenomena of Shape Memory and Self-Healing in Gold Microparticles

Bright Field Nanoscale Color Printing Using Silicon Nanostructures

Squid-inspired Proteins can Function as Programmable Assemblers of 2D Materials

Researchers Discover Nanoscale Particles that Ordinary Light Sources can Set Spinning

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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