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EPFL Researchers Develop Conductive Tracks that can Quadruple in Length

EPFL researchers have developed conductive tracks that can be bent and stretched up to four times their original length. They could be used in artificial skin, connected clothing and on-body sensors.

1 Mar 2016

Physicist Develops New One Atom-Thick Flat Material

A new one atom-thick flat material that could upstage the wonder material graphene and advance digital technology has been discovered by a physicist at the University of Kentucky working in collaboration with scientists from Daimler in Germany and the Institute for Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL) in Greece.

1 Mar 2016

New Way to Maintain Maximal Dispersion of Nanopowder

Platinum is one of the costly metals used as catalysts in new technologies employed for industrial chemical processes, renewable energy sources, pollution control and many other purposes. In particular, it is used for fuel cells, devices that turn chemical energy directly into electrical energy, without combustion.

1 Mar 2016

Researchers Demonstrate High-Efficient Energy Transfer Between Semiconductor Quantum Rods and Luciferase Enzymes

Chemists in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences have made a transformational advance in an alternate lighting source—one that doesn’t require a battery or a plug.

1 Mar 2016

$Low-Dose Electron Diffraction Helps Study Structures of Nanocrystalline Pharmaceuticals$

Low-Dose Electron Diffraction Helps Study Structures of Nanocrystalline Pharmaceuticals

A team of researchers from several European countries has used a low-dose electron diffraction technique to determine the structures of nanocrystalline pharmaceuticals.

1 Mar 2016

Researchers Study Superlubricity of Graphene Nanoribbons on Gold Surfaces

The versatile potential of the wonder material graphene, a modified version of carbon, has been widely explored in numerous fields, including electronic switches and coating machine components.

26 Feb 2016

Copper Nanophotonic Components can Operate Successfully in Photonic Devices

Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) have for the first time experimentally demonstrated that copper nanophotonic components can operate successfully in photonic devices - it was previously believed that only gold and silver components have the required properties for this.

26 Feb 2016

New System Could Scale-Up Production of Nanoparticles

Nanoparticles are very small particles, found in many products, ranging from high-definition television sets and drug delivery formulations, to pollution control on cars.

25 Feb 2016

Magnetic 2D Metal in Artificial Oxide Material Holds Potential for Better Transistors

An international research group led by physicists at the University of Arkansas created magnetic two-dimensional metal in an artificial oxide material that could be used to make better transistors.

25 Feb 2016

Scientists Find Some Carbon Nanomaterials can Enter Immune Cell Membranes and Go Undetected

Scientists at the University of Michigan have found evidence that some carbon nanomaterials can enter into immune cell membranes, seemingly going undetected by the cell's built-in mechanisms for engulfing and disposing of foreign material, and then escape through some unidentified pathway.

25 Feb 2016