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NanoPack to Create Nano-Based Antimicrobial Packaging to Prolong Food Shelf Life

The international NanoPack consortium was awarded €7.7 million by the European Union (EU) to develop and exhibit a solution for prolonging the shelf life of food by using unique antimicrobial surfaces.

18 Jan 2017

Microbiologists Help Advance Development of 'Green' Electronics Using Microbial Nanowires

A new type of natural wire formed by bacteria has been discovered by microbiologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. This could significantly accelerate the goal of researchers to develop sustainable “green” conducting materials for the electronics sector.

18 Jan 2017

Capture of Real-Time, Dynamic Visualizations of Atoms Helps Build Better Batteries

An unimaginably small reaction was captured by researchers in the Dionne lab, which is 18 feet below the Engineering Quad of Stanford University with one of the most enhanced microscopes in the world.

17 Jan 2017

New Study Discovers Self-Assembling 2D and 3D Materials from Tiny Gold Nanoclusters

Self-assembly of matter is one of the basic principles of nature, monitoring the growth of larger ordered and functional systems from smaller building blocks. It is possible to observe self-assembly in all length scales from molecules to galaxies.

16 Jan 2017

Wayne State Professor Awarded NSF I-Corps Grant to Enhance Nanowire Gas Sensors

Guangzhao Mao, Ph.D., chair and professor of chemical engineering in the College of Engineering at Wayne State University, was recently awarded a $50,000 Innovation Corps (I-Corps) grant from the National Science Foundation.

16 Jan 2017

Understanding Beetle Exoskeleton Could Lead to New and Improved Artificial Materials

What can a beetle tell us about good design principles? Quite a lot, actually.

12 Jan 2017

MIT Researchers Develop Porous, 3D Forms of Graphene

MIT researchers have developed one of the strongest lightweight materials known to man. They created the new material by compressing and fusing flakes of graphene, a 2D form of carbon.

9 Jan 2017

Nanoparticle Drug Delivery Systems Help in Ophthalmic Development

Topically administered drug formulations (e.g. eye drops) are used to treat most ophthalmic diseases.

4 Jan 2017

Feeding Nanoparticles to Worms Helps Testing Biological Force Sensor Technology

Worms that are a millimeter-long and capable of digesting a nanoparticle-laced meal of their favorite bacteria could help to develop a way to see the working of cellular forces within human bodies and also in processes like cancer growth and wound healing.

3 Jan 2017

Ultra-Fast and Simple Method to Fabricate Different Forms of Copper Hydroxide Nanostructures

Copper based nano structures have gained much attention in today's modern devices. A team of Nano-fabricated Energy Devices lab in University of Tehran have used an ultra-fast and simple method for fabrication of different types of these structures.

30 Dec 2016

Nanomaterials News

NanoPack to Create Nano-Based Antimicrobial Packaging to Prolong Food Shelf Life

Microbiologists Help Advance Development of 'Green' Electronics Using Microbial Nanowires

Capture of Real-Time, Dynamic Visualizations of Atoms Helps Build Better Batteries

New Study Discovers Self-Assembling 2D and 3D Materials from Tiny Gold Nanoclusters

Wayne State Professor Awarded NSF I-Corps Grant to Enhance Nanowire Gas Sensors

Understanding Beetle Exoskeleton Could Lead to New and Improved Artificial Materials

MIT Researchers Develop Porous, 3D Forms of Graphene

Nanoparticle Drug Delivery Systems Help in Ophthalmic Development

Feeding Nanoparticles to Worms Helps Testing Biological Force Sensor Technology

Ultra-Fast and Simple Method to Fabricate Different Forms of Copper Hydroxide Nanostructures

Revolutionizing Superconductivity: 60K Temperature Findings

Enhancing Osteogenesis in hBMSCs Using Single-Layer Graphene Oxide Nanosheets

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

New Technique Boosts Efficiency of Eco-Friendly Solar Cells

New Magnetic Nanodiscs for Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation

Conversations on AFM: Applications of BioAFM in Life Science

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

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