NANO TECH - NANO DAILY

Apr 03, 2014 (SPX)

Researchers in China, have found a convenient way to selectively prepare germanium sulfide nanostructures, including nanosheets and nanowires, that are more act...

Fabricating Nanostructures with Silk Could Make Clean Rooms Green Rooms

Apr 01, 2014 (SPX)

Tufts University engineers have demonstrated that it is possible to generate nanostructures from silk in an environmentally friendly process that uses water as ...

Scientists watch nanoparticles grow

Mar 31, 2014 (SPX)

With DESY's X-ray light source PETRA III, Danish scientists observed the growth of nanoparticles live. The study shows how tungsten oxide nanoparticles are form...

Nanotube coating helps shrink mass spectrometers

Mar 27, 2014 (SPX)

Nanotechnology is advancing tools likened to Star Trek's "tricorder" that perform on-the-spot chemical analysis for a range of applications including medical te...

A new concept for manufacturing wrinkling patterns on hard-nano-film/soft-matter-substrate

Mar 25, 2014 (SPX)

Wrinkling is a common phenomenon for thin stiff film adhered on soft substrate. Various wrinkling phenomenon has been reported previously. Wu Dan, Yin Yajun, Xi...

Researchers Grow Carbon Nanofibers Using Ambient Air, Without Toxic Ammonia

Mar 25, 2014 (SPX)

Researchers from North Carolina State University have demonstrated that vertically aligned carbon nanofibers (VACNFs) can be manufactured using ambient air, mak...

Toward 'vanishing' electronics and unlocking nanomaterials' power potential

Mar 24, 2014 (SPX)

Brain sensors and electronic tags that dissolve. Boosting the potential of renewable energy sources. These are examples of the latest research from two pioneeri...

Nanoscale optical switch breaks miniaturization barrier

Mar 19, 2014 (SPX)

An ultra-fast and ultra-small optical switch has been invented that could advance the day when photons replace electrons in the innards of consumer products ran...

Chelyabinsk meteor to help develop nanotechnology

Mar 11, 2014 (Voice of Russia)

The Chelyabinsk meteor is full of mysteries. Scientists from Nizhny Novgorod have found natural magnesium-iron nanocrystals while studying the fragments of the ...

Optical nano-tweezers take over the control of nano-objects

Mar 06, 2014 (SPX)

As science and technology go nano, scientists search for new tools to manipulate, observe and modify the "building blocks" of matter at the nanometer scale. Wit...

NIST microanalysis technique makes the most of small nanoparticle samples

Mar 04, 2014 (SPX)

Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have demonstrated that they can make sensi...

Experts warn against nanosilver

Mar 04, 2014 (SPX)

Endocrine disrupters are not the only worrying chemicals that ordinary consumers are exposed to in everyday life. Also nanoparticles of silver, found in e.g. di...

The thousand-droplets test

Feb 24, 2014 (SPX)

In the future, an entire chemistry lab could be accommodated in a tiny little droplet. While simple reactions already work in these simplest models of an artifi...

Physicists at Mainz University build pilot prototype of a single ion heat engine

Feb 12, 2014 (SPX)

Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg are working on a heat engine that consists of just a single ion...

Molecular Traffic Jam Makes Water Move Faster through Nanochannels

Feb 11, 2014 (SPX)

Cars inch forward slowly in traffic jams, but molecules, when jammed up, can move extremely fast. New research by Northwestern University researchers finds that...

Quantum dots provide complete control of photons

Feb 05, 2014 (SPX)

By emitting photons from a quantum dot at the top of a micropyramid, researchers at Linkoping University are creating a polarized light source for such things a...

New boron nanomaterial may be possible

Feb 03, 2014 (SPX)

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

Molecular nano-spies to make light work of disease detection

Jan 23, 2014 (SPX)

A world of cloak-and-dagger pharmaceuticals has come a step closer with the development of stealth compounds programmed to spring into action when they receive ...

Carbon nanotube sponge shows improved water clean-up

Jan 22, 2014 (SPX)

A carbon nanotube sponge capable of soaking up water contaminants, such as fertilisers, pesticides and pharmaceuticals, more than three times more efficiently t...

Imec Celebrates 30 Years of Nanoelectronics Industry Innovation

Jan 22, 2014 (SPX)

World-leading nanotechnology research and development center imec, has announced the celebration of its 30th anniversary. Founded in 1984 as a non-profit organi...