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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

Researchers Report a Facile Route to Realize Controllable Synthesis of Te Nanostructures in Large Quantity

Over the past two decades, one dimensional nanomaterials such as nanotubes (NTs), nanobelts, nanowires (NWs) and nanorods (NRs) have becoming increasingly popular because of their shape dependent physical and chemical properties.

30 Jun 2017

Researchers Attach Single Ruthenium Atoms to Graphene to Produce High-Performance Fuel Cells

A durable catalyst for high-performance fuel cells has been fabricated by Rice University Scientists by attaching single ruthenium atoms to graphene.

29 Jun 2017

Injectable Plant-Based Nanoparticles Halt Development of Tumor

A team of Researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in partnership with researchers from Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine and RWTH Aachen University (Germany) have adapted virus particles—that typically infect potatoes—to act as cancer drug delivery devices for mice.

29 Jun 2017

Novel Nanostructures Developed to Distinguish Between Tiny Differences in Wavelengths of Light

A team of Engineers from Caltech have for the first time created a light detector that integrates two disparate technologies—nanophotonics, which regulates light at the nanoscale, and thermoelectrics, which translates temperature differences straightaway into electron voltage—to differentiate different wavelengths of light, including both infrared and visible wavelengths, at high resolution.

29 Jun 2017

Nanoparticles Affect the Immune System of Digestive Tract

Over the past 50 years, the anticaking agent E551 silicon dioxide, or silica, has been extensively used in the food industry, and was believed to be safe for a long time.

28 Jun 2017

Novel Nanoparticle-Based System Detects Peanut Allergies

A novel system has been developed by Researchers to detect and identify the presence and severity of peanut allergies more accurately, without openly exposing patients to the allergen. This new study was published in the Scientific Reports journal.

27 Jun 2017

Nanomaterials News

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

Researchers Report a Facile Route to Realize Controllable Synthesis of Te Nanostructures in Large Quantity

Researchers Attach Single Ruthenium Atoms to Graphene to Produce High-Performance Fuel Cells

Injectable Plant-Based Nanoparticles Halt Development of Tumor

Novel Nanostructures Developed to Distinguish Between Tiny Differences in Wavelengths of Light

Nanoparticles Affect the Immune System of Digestive Tract

Novel Nanoparticle-Based System Detects Peanut Allergies

Revolutionizing Superconductivity: 60K Temperature Findings

New Magnetic Nanodiscs for Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation

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

Enhancing Osteogenesis in hBMSCs Using Single-Layer Graphene Oxide Nanosheets

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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