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Nanoparticles Arrange into 'Living Rotating Crystals' When Coaxed to Spin

Simply making nanoparticles spin coaxes them to arrange themselves into what University of Michigan researchers call 'living rotating crystals' that could serve as a nanopump. They may also, incidentally, shed light on the origin of life itself.

25 Feb 2014

Novel Device Enables Rapid Testing of Nanotracers for Evaluation of Wells

A tabletop device invented at Rice University can tell how efficiently a nanoparticle would travel through a well and may provide a wealth of information for oil and gas producers.

25 Feb 2014

Polymer Group Invests $8 Million to Utilize Nanofiber Technology for Filtration Applications

Polymer Group Inc. (PGI), the world's largest nonwovens manufacturer, announced today that it will make a strategic investment of approximately $8 million to upgrade machinery and expand its manufacturing plant in Waynesboro, Va. PGI will also hire up to 20 new employees, continuing its ongoing commitment to invest in new technologies to better serve its customers and drive global growth.

25 Feb 2014

Researchers Perform Chemical Analysis by Roasting Nanoparticles on Top of Quartz Crystals

Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have demonstrated that they can make sensitive chemical analyses of minute samples of nanoparticles by, essentially, roasting them on top of a quartz crystal.

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 25 Feb 2014

New Way of Making Nanoporous Materials

A team of UConn chemists has discovered a new way of making a class of porous materials that allows for greater manufacturing controls and has significantly broader applications than the longtime industry standard.

24 Feb 2014

Integran’s Nanostructured Alloy for Copper-Beryllium Replacement Receives 2013 SERDP Award

Last week, we announced that Integran received an award from the DoD's SERDP office for our work on environmentally benign plating for toxic beryllium replacement, which is particularly interesting for high load bushings, like the all-Nanovate Metal Bushings shown here.

From Integran Technologies Inc. 24 Feb 2014

UC Riverside Engineer Elected as a Fellow of the Materials Research Society

Alexander A. Balandin, a professor of electrical engineering at the University of California, Riverside's Bourns College of Engineering, has been elected a fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS). He is the first fellow from UC Riverside.

From University of California at Riverside 21 Feb 2014

Nanoscale Pillar Array Built on Top of Thermoelectric Material to Form ‘Nanophononic Metamaterial’

University of Colorado Boulder scientists have found a creative way to radically improve thermoelectric materials, a finding that could one day lead to the development of improved solar panels, more energy-efficient cooling equipment, and even the creation of new devices that could turn the vast amounts of heat wasted at power plants into more electricity.

21 Feb 2014

Nanogenerator Harvests and Converts Vibration Energy into Power

A multi-university team of engineers has developed what could be a promising solution for charging smartphone batteries on the go — without the need for an electrical cord.

21 Feb 2014

New Report on Market for Transparent Conductors Made with Silver Nanomaterials

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Markets for Silver Nanomaterials as Transparent Conductors 2014" report to their offering.

20 Feb 2014

Nanomaterials News

Nanoparticles Arrange into 'Living Rotating Crystals' When Coaxed to Spin

Novel Device Enables Rapid Testing of Nanotracers for Evaluation of Wells

Polymer Group Invests $8 Million to Utilize Nanofiber Technology for Filtration Applications

Researchers Perform Chemical Analysis by Roasting Nanoparticles on Top of Quartz Crystals

New Way of Making Nanoporous Materials

Integran’s Nanostructured Alloy for Copper-Beryllium Replacement Receives 2013 SERDP Award

UC Riverside Engineer Elected as a Fellow of the Materials Research Society

Nanoscale Pillar Array Built on Top of Thermoelectric Material to Form ‘Nanophononic Metamaterial’

Nanogenerator Harvests and Converts Vibration Energy into Power

New Report on Market for Transparent Conductors Made with Silver Nanomaterials

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

Light-Responsive Azobenzene Polymers for Enhanced Neural Interfaces

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

A New Understanding of Metal-Carbon Interactions

Amino Acid-Functionalized Magnetite Nanoparticles: Synthesis and Therapeutic Potential

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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