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Greatest Nanoscale Achievements Displayed at 2014 Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility Annual Meeting

The latest and greatest scientific achievements at the nanoscale were on display at the 2014 Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility (CNF) annual meeting, Sept. 18, which featured a lineup of speakers in materials science, biomedical engineering and more, and a research poster session and vendor show. Attendees also heard a brief update on the facility’s long-term future.

23 Sep 2014

Nanoscale Hydrogen Generator Uses Light and 2D Graphene to Boost Production

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have created a small scale “hydrogen generator” that uses light and a two-dimensional graphene platform to boost production of the hard-to-make element.

22 Sep 2014

State of Pennsylvania Awards Wilkes University $3 Million Funding for Engineering Laboratories

Wilkes University has received $3 million in funding from the State of Pennsylvania that will allow it to revolutionize the engineering education experience for its students and provide engineering laboratory support to regional industry.

22 Sep 2014

Two-Step Process Enables Crystals to Make Solid-Solid Transition Easily

Two solids made of the same elements but with different geometric arrangements of the atoms, or crystal phases, can produce materials with different properties. Coal and diamond offer a spectacular example of this effect.

22 Sep 2014

First Round of Funding from SUNY Materials and Advanced Manufacturing Network of Excellence Announced

The State University of New York today announced that $710,000 has been awarded for the first round of funding from the SUNY Materials and Advanced Manufacturing Network of Excellence, which aims to support the state’s manufacturing sector by bringing faculty and student researchers together with industry experts to spur the development and commercialization of their work.

22 Sep 2014

ASU’s Center for Nanotechnology in Society to Broaden Underrepresented Minorities Participation in Science, Society Careers

Sometimes choosing to pursue a career or graduate education path comes down to imagination.

From Arizona State University 19 Sep 2014

Gold Nanoparticle Photocatalysts Improve Efficiency of Chemical Productions Using Sunlight

Just about everything we touch in the course of a day - car, phone, computer, fridge, detergent - even medicines, rely on the chemical industry to turn raw materials such as petroleum by-products, minerals and farm products into valuable chemicals that are the ingredients of life's essential objects.

19 Sep 2014

Magnetothermal Multiplexing of Nanomaterials Holds Promise for Targeted Drug Delivery

Magnetic nanoparticles don’t have to be "one size fits all." Instead, individual magnetic nanoparticles can be tailored in an array of differing sizes and compositions to allow for heating them separately by varying the frequency and amplitude of an external alternating magnetic field, MIT graduate student Michael G. Christiansen and colleagues show in a recent Applied Physics Letters paper.

From Massachusetts Institute of Technology 19 Sep 2014

Biofilms Hold Promise for Designer Nanomaterials to Clean up Polluted Rivers

For most people biofilms conjure up images of slippery stones in a streambed and dirty drains. While there are plenty of "bad" biofilms around – they even cause pesky dental plaque and a host of other more serious medical problems – a team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University sees biofilms as a robust new platform for designer nanomaterials that could clean up polluted rivers, manufacture pharmaceutical products, fabricate new textiles, and more.

19 Sep 2014

Hollow Nanospheres Demonstrate Unprecedented Performance for Batteries

Lithium-ion batteries power our phones, laptops, and many other portable electronic devices. There are limitations inherent in current lithium-ion technology, however, that prevent the batteries from being used more widely in electric vehicles and other high-power applications.

19 Sep 2014

Nanomaterials News

Greatest Nanoscale Achievements Displayed at 2014 Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility Annual Meeting

Nanoscale Hydrogen Generator Uses Light and 2D Graphene to Boost Production

State of Pennsylvania Awards Wilkes University $3 Million Funding for Engineering Laboratories

Two-Step Process Enables Crystals to Make Solid-Solid Transition Easily

First Round of Funding from SUNY Materials and Advanced Manufacturing Network of Excellence Announced

ASU’s Center for Nanotechnology in Society to Broaden Underrepresented Minorities Participation in Science, Society Careers

Gold Nanoparticle Photocatalysts Improve Efficiency of Chemical Productions Using Sunlight

Magnetothermal Multiplexing of Nanomaterials Holds Promise for Targeted Drug Delivery

Biofilms Hold Promise for Designer Nanomaterials to Clean up Polluted Rivers

Hollow Nanospheres Demonstrate Unprecedented Performance for Batteries

Light-Responsive Azobenzene Polymers for Enhanced Neural Interfaces

Amino Acid-Functionalized Magnetite Nanoparticles: Synthesis and Therapeutic Potential

Automated Image Acquisition and Analysis of Graphene and Hexagonal Boron Nitride Structures

A New Understanding of Metal-Carbon Interactions

Breakthrough in Broadband Photodetectors: Nanomaterial Gii Could Bring Faster Broadband and Higher Quality Medical Imaging

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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