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New Nanoparticles Serve as Improved Contrast Agents for MRI

Scientists from the University of Basel have developed nanoparticles that have the potential to serve as contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging.

4 Aug 2016

New Switchable Metamaterials Could Lead to Advanced Optical Devices

Metamaterials play a bigger role in invisibility cloaks than magic. The materials are human-engineered and they have properties that are not seen in nature, enabling them to bend and manipulate light in unusual ways.

3 Aug 2016

Ocean Optics Introduces New SERS Nanosponge Substrate for Raman Spectroscopy Applications

Ocean Optics has introduced a new substrate for Raman spectroscopy applications. The new RAM-SERS-SP Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy substrates use a proprietary gold-silver nanosponge alloy to produce highly sensitive, trace-level Raman spectroscopy measurements.

3 Aug 2016

Patterning Monolayer Graphene Nanoribbons with Zigzag Edges

It has become feasible to create a high-quality material - monolayer graphene nanoribbon with zigzag edges - for semiconductors and spintronic devices.

2 Aug 2016

Scientists Use Computer Simulations to Develop Graphene-Like Crystals of Salts

An international team of researchers from Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), the National University of Science and Technology MISiS (Russia), Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), Rice University (USA), and the Technological Institute for Superhard and Novel Carbon Materials (TISNCM) have found out how thin a slab of salt should be for it to break down into graphene-like layers, using computer stimulations.

1 Aug 2016

Research Team Develops Ultrathin, Transparent Oxide TFT for Active-Matrix Backplane of Flexible Display

With the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) era, strong demand has grown for wearable and transparent displays that can be applied to various fields such as augmented reality (AR) and skin-like thin flexible devices.

1 Aug 2016

NSF Awards Grants to Develop Novel Computational Framework that Can Custom Design Nanoparticles

Building upon their previous research, engineering faculty at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering and Carnegie Mellon University College of Engineering were awarded grants from the National Science Foundation to develop a novel computational framework that can custom design nanoparticles.

29 Jul 2016

Nanomaterials News

New Nanoparticles Serve as Improved Contrast Agents for MRI

New Switchable Metamaterials Could Lead to Advanced Optical Devices

Ocean Optics Introduces New SERS Nanosponge Substrate for Raman Spectroscopy Applications

Patterning Monolayer Graphene Nanoribbons with Zigzag Edges

Scientists Use Computer Simulations to Develop Graphene-Like Crystals of Salts

Research Team Develops Ultrathin, Transparent Oxide TFT for Active-Matrix Backplane of Flexible Display

NSF Awards Grants to Develop Novel Computational Framework that Can Custom Design Nanoparticles

Researchers Create Unique Hybrid Nanomaterials to Transform Dirty Water into Drinkable

Unique Collaboration to Accelerate 2D Materials Research and Graphene Commercialization

Researchers Use Iron-Containing Nanoparticles to Significantly Reduce Onset, Severity of Cavities

Revolutionizing Superconductivity: 60K Temperature Findings

New Magnetic Nanodiscs for Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation

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New High-Energy X-Ray Imaging Technique for Nanomaterials

Enhancing Osteogenesis in hBMSCs Using Single-Layer Graphene Oxide Nanosheets

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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