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Nano-Bio Materials Consortium introduces new AFRL-Industry Co-Development Program

May 31, 2021 (SPX)

NBMC awarded contracts to 12 organizations from industry and academia Feb. 15, totaling $20.4 million, which leveraged $10.7 million of cost-share from award re...

Nanostructured device stops light in its tracks

May 04, 2021 (SPX)

Now, a team led by MIT researchers has demonstrated chip-scale devices that can directly trace the weak electric field of light waves as they change in time. Th...

Scientists use DNA technology to build tough 3D nanomaterials

Mar 19, 2021 (UPI)

DNA technology can be used to design self-assembling, complexly organized nanoparticle structures. In theory, these structures can be designed for a variety of ...

New metalens shifts focus without tilting or moving

Feb 24, 2021 (SPX)

Changing focus to see clearly at all these scales typically requires physically moving a lens, by tilting, sliding, or otherwise shifting the lens, usually with...

Nanowire could provide a stable, easy-to-make superconducting transistor

Feb 12, 2021 (SPX)

But superconducting devices can be finicky. Often, they're expensive to manufacture and prone to err from environmental noise. That could change, thanks to rese...

New technique builds super-hard metals from nanoparticles

Jan 25, 2021 (SPX)

Now, a group of Brown University researchers has found a way to customize metallic grain structures from the bottom up. In a paper published in the journal Chem...

Scientists see competition of magnetic orders from 2D sheets of atoms

Jan 06, 2021 (UPI)

Ever since a pair of British researchers were awarded the Nobel Prize in 2010 for the discovery of graphene, material scientists, electrical engineers, quantum ...

Atomic-scale nanowires can now be produced at scale

Dec 30, 2020 (SPX)

Electronics is all about making things smaller. Smaller features on a chip, for example, means more computing power in the same amount of space and better effic...

Weak force has strong impact on nanosheets

Dec 16, 2020 (SPX)

Rice University scientists found that nature's ubiquitous "weak" force is sufficient to indent rigid nanosheets, extending their potential for use in nanoscale ...

Making 3D nanosuperconductors with DNA

Nov 11, 2020 (SPX)

Now, scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, Columbia University, and Bar-Ilan University in Israel have developed...

Researchers share design for affordable single-molecule microscope

Nov 06, 2020 (UPI)

In a new paper, published Friday in the journal Nature Communications, researchers shared plans for the construction of a more affordable single-molecule micros...

Rice rolls out next-gen nanocars

Oct 28, 2020 (SPX)

While they'll have to pump the brakes for a bit longer than expected, as the race has been bumped a year to 2022, the Rice-based team is pushing forward with ne...

Scientists explain the paradox of quantum forces in nanodevices

Oct 28, 2020 (SPX)

The obtained results have great potential for application in both fundamental physics and for creating nanodevices for various purposes. The article was publish...

Nano particles for healthy tissue

Sep 07, 2020 (ESA)

Oxidative stress occurs in our bodies when cells lose the natural balance of electrons in the molecules that we are made of. This is a common and constant occur...

Hybrid nanomaterials hold promise for improved ceramic composites

Sep 04, 2020 (AFNS)

An HNP is a hybrid material consisting of a polymer shell bound to a solid nanoparticle core. The polymer - a chain of repeating molecules - forms the "hair" ar...

Scientists open new window into the nanoworld

Jul 20, 2020 (SPX)

The team, led by scientists at JILA, reported its new feat of wafer-thinness this week in the journal Physical Review Materials. The group's target, a film just...

Crystalline 'nanobrush' clears way to advanced energy and information tech

Jun 10, 2020 (SPX)

"These are major technical accomplishments and may prove useful in advancing energy and information technologies," said ORNL's Ho Nyung Lee, who led the study p...

Transporting energy through a single molecular nanowire

May 11, 2020 (SPX)

'Natural photosynthetic systems have been optimized by billions of years of evolution. We have found this very difficult to copy in artificial systems,' explain...

To make an atom-sized machine, you need a quantum mechanic

May 05, 2020 (SPX)

"Think about how your computer or laptop has a lot of things inside it that heat up. Today you cool that with a fan that blows air. In nanomachines or quantum c...

Magnetic nanoparticles help researchers remotely release adrenal hormones

Apr 13, 2020 (UPI)

Previous studies have linked problems with the regulation of hormones from the adrenal gland with mental health disorders, such as depression and post-traumatic...