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Nanometric Flow and Phase Transformation Lead to Extreme Weakening During Fault Slip

A University of Oklahoma structural geologist and collaborators are studying earthquake instability and the mechanisms associated with fault weakening during slip. The mechanism of this weakening is central to understanding earthquake sliding.

19 May 2015

Kyocera Introduces Nano-Silver Technology-Based Lead-Free, Pressureless Sinter Paste

Kyocera America, Inc., Chemical Sales Division, today announced the U.S. introduction of its environmentally-friendly XT2773R7 Silver Sinter Paste, a proprietary formulation specifically developed to deliver a wider range of benefits and performance characteristics compared to high-lead solders.

19 May 2015

Plasmons Influence Carbon-Based Nanoparticles for Sensitizing Cancerous Tumors

Radiotherapy used in cancer treatment is a promising treatment method, albeit rather indiscriminate. Indeed, it affects neighbouring healthy tissues and tumours alike. Researchers have thus been exploring the possibilities of using various radio-sensitizers; these nanoscale entities focus the destructive effects of radiotherapy more specifically on tumour cells.

19 May 2015

New Report on Nanomaterials and Graphene for 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Nanomaterials and Graphene for 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing" report to their offering.

19 May 2015

Laser Technique for Low-Cost Self-Assembly of Nanostructures

Researchers from Swinburne University of Technology and the University of Science and Technology of China have developed a low-cost technique that holds promise for a range of scientific and technological applications.

19 May 2015

New Book on Marine Litter Focuses on Impact of Nano-Plastic Fragments

University of Exeter researcher, Professor Tamara Galloway, has contributed to one of the most expansive summaries of our knowledge of man-made litter in the world's oceans to date. The new book, Marine Anthropogenic Litter is published by Springer and is set to be available through open access, allowing its content to reach the wider audience that is so necessary to raise awareness of this important challenge.

18 May 2015

Alabama Graphite Finds Additional Types of Naturally Occurring Graphene-Based Derivatives at Coosa Property

Alabama Graphite Corp. is pleased to announce that it has found additional types of naturally occurring graphene-based derivatives called few-layer graphene (2-5 layers), multi-layer graphene (2-10 layers), and graphite nanoplates (less than 100 nm thick) at its Coosa Property in Alabama, USA.

15 May 2015

Photek Licenses Arradiance Technology for Nanofilm MCP-Based Photodetectors

Photek, Ltd. of St Leonards on Sea, UK today announced that it is licensing the intellectual property of Arradiance, Inc. of Sudbury, MA for use in nanofilm microchannel plate (MCP) based imagers and detectors.

15 May 2015

Kettering Professor Presents at Energy Materials Nanotechnology Meeting on Quantum Technology in China

Dr. Lisandro Hernandez de la Peña, assistant professor of Chemistry at Kettering University, was invited to speak at the Energy Materials Nanotechnology (EMN) Meeting on Quantum Technology in April. The conference, hosted by the Chinese Academy of Science Institute of Semiconductors, was held in Beijing, China.

14 May 2015

DOE Awards Research Funding to Lehigh Scientist to Create Functional Materials by Harnessing DNA

Jeetain Mittal, assistant professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Lehigh University, is one of 44 scientists selected from across the nation to receive significant funding for research as part of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Early Career Research Program. The effort, now in its sixth year, is designed to bolster the nation's scientific workforce by providing support to exceptional researchers during the crucial early career years, when many scientists do their most formative work.

14 May 2015

Nanomaterials News

Nanometric Flow and Phase Transformation Lead to Extreme Weakening During Fault Slip

Kyocera Introduces Nano-Silver Technology-Based Lead-Free, Pressureless Sinter Paste

Plasmons Influence Carbon-Based Nanoparticles for Sensitizing Cancerous Tumors

New Report on Nanomaterials and Graphene for 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing

Laser Technique for Low-Cost Self-Assembly of Nanostructures

New Book on Marine Litter Focuses on Impact of Nano-Plastic Fragments

Alabama Graphite Finds Additional Types of Naturally Occurring Graphene-Based Derivatives at Coosa Property

Photek Licenses Arradiance Technology for Nanofilm MCP-Based Photodetectors

Kettering Professor Presents at Energy Materials Nanotechnology Meeting on Quantum Technology in China

DOE Awards Research Funding to Lehigh Scientist to Create Functional Materials by Harnessing DNA

Light-Responsive Azobenzene Polymers for Enhanced Neural Interfaces

New High-Energy X-Ray Imaging Technique for Nanomaterials

Revolutionizing Superconductivity: 60K Temperature Findings

Amino Acid-Functionalized Magnetite Nanoparticles: Synthesis and Therapeutic Potential

A New Understanding of Metal-Carbon Interactions

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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