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UD Researchers Develop Nanoporous Silver Electrocatalyst for Converting CO2 to CO

A team of researchers at the University of Delaware has developed a highly selective catalyst capable of electrochemically converting carbon dioxide — a greenhouse gas — to carbon monoxide with 92 percent efficiency. The carbon monoxide then can be used to develop useful chemicals.

31 Jan 2014

SFU’s New Centre for Soft Materials Features Latest Technologies for Soft Material Research

For scientists and engineers, analysing “soft materials” such as plastics, elastomers and composites can be a tricky business.

31 Jan 2014

New "Photodetector" Nanotechnology Allows Photos in Near Darkness

Albany, NY – When the lights went out at the big game, fans and film crews struggled to take a decent picture in the darkness. Those same folks will be cheering the latest research by a team of SUNY College of Nano...

30 Jan 2014

Aqua Sphere Debuts AquaLight Water-Repellent Swimwear with Quick-Drying Nanotechnology-Enhanced Mesh Barrier

Aqua Sphere, the leading innovator of premium swimwear and swim accessories based on comfort and high-quality technical designs, today announced the launch of its revolutionary line of AquaLight water-repellent swimwear—the first-ever assortment of water-repellent suits in the marketplace made specifically for fitness and recreational swimmers.

29 Jan 2014

New Stretchable, Transparent Electrical Conductor Developed at University of Houston

University of Houston researchers have developed a new stretchable and transparent electrical conductor, bringing the potential for a fully foldable cell phone or a flat-screen television that can be folded and carried under your arm closer to reality.

29 Jan 2014

Theoretically, One-Atom-Thick Boron Sheet is Possible

Researchers from Brown University have shown experimentally that a boron-based competitor to graphene is a very real possibility.

28 Jan 2014

Pores in Swiss Cheese-Like MOFs Change Shape When Hit by Ultraviolet Light

The sponges of the future will do more than clean house. Picture this, for example: Doctors use a tiny sponge to soak up a drug and deliver it directly to a tumor. Chemists at a manufacturing plant use another to trap and store unwanted gases.

28 Jan 2014

Dais Analytic to Form Company in China to Promote Aqualyte Nanomaterial Products

Dais Analytic Corporation, a nanotechnology materials and process company -- focused on commercializing its technology in the worldwide energy and water markets -- proudly announces a two-part transaction following its gains of establishing distribution in China in 2013. This long-term venture with an industrial entity in China is projected to have a positive impact on the current year's financial results.

From Dais Analytic Corporation 28 Jan 2014

Nanodiamond-Silk Structures Help Study Drug-Cell Reaction

Silk and diamonds aren't just for ties and jewelry anymore. They're ingredients for a new kind of tiny glowing particle that could provide doctors and researchers with a novel technique for biological imaging and drug delivery.

28 Jan 2014

Iron Oxide Nanoparticles and Biomarkers Used to Target Specific Cancer Cell Receptors

Manhattan Scientifics executed an agreement to collaborate with The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (MDACC) to advance, demonstrate and validate a breakthrough technology developed by Edward R. Flynn, PhD, for the very early detection of cancer. Dr. Flynn is the founder and chief scientist of MHTX’s subsidiary, Senior Scientific LLC.

From Manhattan Scientifics Inc. 28 Jan 2014

Nanomaterials News

UD Researchers Develop Nanoporous Silver Electrocatalyst for Converting CO2 to CO

SFU’s New Centre for Soft Materials Features Latest Technologies for Soft Material Research

New "Photodetector" Nanotechnology Allows Photos in Near Darkness

Aqua Sphere Debuts AquaLight Water-Repellent Swimwear with Quick-Drying Nanotechnology-Enhanced Mesh Barrier

New Stretchable, Transparent Electrical Conductor Developed at University of Houston

Theoretically, One-Atom-Thick Boron Sheet is Possible

Pores in Swiss Cheese-Like MOFs Change Shape When Hit by Ultraviolet Light

Dais Analytic to Form Company in China to Promote Aqualyte Nanomaterial Products

Nanodiamond-Silk Structures Help Study Drug-Cell Reaction

Iron Oxide Nanoparticles and Biomarkers Used to Target Specific Cancer Cell Receptors

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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