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OIST Demonstrates More Robust Method for Controlling Single, Micron-Sized Particles with Light

Researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have demonstrated a more robust method for controlling single, micron-sized particles with light.

19 Mar 2015

Supercomputing 2014 Conference: Brookhaven Presents Project on Nanostructure Complex Materials Modeling

As the precision, energy, and output of scientific instruments such as particle colliders, light sources, and microscopes increases, so does the volume and complexity of data generated.

19 Mar 2015

Newly Developed Water-Splitting Photocatalyst Can Operate Over a Wider Range of Visible Light Spectrum

A research group led by Chengsi Pan and Tsuyoshi Takata at NIMS Global Research Center for Environment and Energy Based on Nanomaterials Science (GREEN), and Kazunari Domen at The University of Tokyo newly developed a water-splitting photocatalyst that is operable over a wider range of the visible light spectrum than before.

19 Mar 2015

Buckyballs Turned Into Buckybombs to Fight Cancer

In 1996, a trio of scientists won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their discovery of Buckminsterfullerene - soccer-ball-shaped spheres of 60 joined carbon atoms that exhibit special physical properties.

19 Mar 2015

Geometric Relationship between Graphene and Substrate Determines Shape of Emerging Islands

Scientists at Rice University have discovered that the geometric relationship that exists between graphene and the substrate determines the manner in which the shapes of the islands emerge.

18 Mar 2015

Researchers Triple CO2-Scrubbing Capacity of MOFs by Appending a Diamine Molecule

A means by which the removal of carbon dioxide (CO2) from coal-fired power plants might one day be done far more efficiently and at far lower costs than today has been discovered by a team of researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).

18 Mar 2015

Sol Voltaics Doubles World-Record for PV Conversion Efficiency using GaAs Nanowire Array

Sol Voltaics, providing advanced nano material technology for the solar industry, today announced that it has doubled the previously reported world-record for photovoltaic (PV) conversion efficiency using a gallium-arsenide (GaAs) nanowire array (NWA).

18 Mar 2015

Doctoral Fellow Simulates Self-Organization of Nanoparticles to Develop More Sophisticated Materials

What if you could place your cell phone on a surface that would charge the battery in under a second? What if those same batteries could pack enough energy to power electric vehicles with the same range as gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles? What if organic solar cells could compete with fossil fuel products?

18 Mar 2015

JGU Professor Receives ERC Grant to Develop New Type of Magnetic Sensor for Recording Large Numbers of Revolutions

Professor Mathias Kläui of the Institute of Physics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has received a grant from the European Research Council (ERC) to develop a new type of magnetic sensor. This allows Kläui to develop a concept for a sensor further that will eventually be able to record large numbers of revolutions.

17 Mar 2015

Randomly Crumpled, Purposefully Folded Thin Polymeric Films Hold Promise for Aerospace Applications

While many of us crumple up a sheet of paper into a ball in frustration, physicist Andrew Croll views it as something quite different. The structure of the bends and folds created, as well as those found in origami—the art of folding paper into beautiful objects—may help solve a larger scientific puzzle. Instead of paper, Croll and his research team at North Dakota State University, Fargo, use polymer films known as “thin films,” or extremely thin slivers of layers of material—tens of nanometers thin. A nanometer is 10,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair.

17 Mar 2015

Nanomaterials News

OIST Demonstrates More Robust Method for Controlling Single, Micron-Sized Particles with Light

Supercomputing 2014 Conference: Brookhaven Presents Project on Nanostructure Complex Materials Modeling

Newly Developed Water-Splitting Photocatalyst Can Operate Over a Wider Range of Visible Light Spectrum

Buckyballs Turned Into Buckybombs to Fight Cancer

Geometric Relationship between Graphene and Substrate Determines Shape of Emerging Islands

Researchers Triple CO2-Scrubbing Capacity of MOFs by Appending a Diamine Molecule

Sol Voltaics Doubles World-Record for PV Conversion Efficiency using GaAs Nanowire Array

Doctoral Fellow Simulates Self-Organization of Nanoparticles to Develop More Sophisticated Materials

JGU Professor Receives ERC Grant to Develop New Type of Magnetic Sensor for Recording Large Numbers of Revolutions

Randomly Crumpled, Purposefully Folded Thin Polymeric Films Hold Promise for Aerospace Applications

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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