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Engineers craft the basic building block for electrospun nanofibers
Mar 28, 2019 (SPX)
Smitha Rao, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Michigan Tech, led the research. She said the approach is innovative, "we're coming at this complet...
Researchers report new light-activated micro pump
Mar 15, 2019 (SPX)
The work is described in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Using a plasmonic quartz plate implanted with gold atoms, the researchers demonstr...
Defects help nanomaterial soak up more pollutant in less time
Mar 14, 2019 (SPX)
In a study in the American Chemical Society journal ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, Rice University researchers Michael Wong, Chelsea Clark and colle...
A new spin in nano-electronics
Feb 26, 2019 (SPX)
Researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) are therefore exploring spin waves or so-called magnons - a promising alternative for transportin...
Nanoparticle computing takes a giant step forward
Feb 26, 2019 (SPX)
However, the implementation of complex computation in particle systems, especially in nanoparticles, remains challenging, despite a wide range of potential appl...
The holy grail of nanowire production
Feb 25, 2019 (SPX)
They can emit, concentrate and absorb light and could therefore be used to add optical functionalities to electronic chips. They could, for example, make it pos...
Breakthrough nanoscience discovery made on flight from New York to Jerusalem
Feb 20, 2019 (SPX)
Three years ago, Robinson was on sabbatical at Banin's nanoscience lab at Hebrew University. While in Jerusalem, Robinson asked a graduate student from back hom...
Customized mix of materials for three-dimensional micro- and nanostructures
Feb 14, 2019 (SPX)
From components for data processing with light to optical microlenses, mechanical metamaterials, or artificial scaffolds for cell cultures to security features ...
Nano drops a million times smaller than a teardrop explodes 19th century theory
Feb 13, 2019 (SPX)
Molecular simulations of liquid jets, akin to a stream of water pouring out of a nano-tap, have been used by researchers at the University of Warwick to probe t...
Rice lab adds porous envelope to aluminum plasmonics
Feb 11, 2019 (SPX)
In a new paper online this week in the journal Science Advances, Robatjazi and co-authors with Rice's Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP) describe how pseudomor...
Research details sticky situations at the nanoscale
Feb 08, 2019 (SPX)
In a series of papers, the latest of which is published in Scientific Reports, the researchers show that miniscule differences in the roughness of a surface can...
Nano-infused ceramic could report on its own health
Feb 06, 2019 (SPX)
The electrical disparity fostered by the two types of strain was not obvious until Rice University's Rouzbeh Shahsavari, an assistant professor of civil and env...
Aerosol-assisted biosynthesis strategy enables functional bulk nanocomposites
Jan 29, 2019 (SPX)
One possible solution is to provide a skeleton that can hold the individual nanomaterials together and thus construct functional bulk nanocomposites, just like ...
Platinum forms nano-bubbles
Jan 28, 2019 (SPX)
Devices that contain platinum, such as the catalytic converters used to reduce exhaust emissions in cars, can suffer a loss in efficacy as a result of this reac...
New applications for encapsulated nanoparticles with promising properties
Jan 23, 2019 (SPX)
Worthy of mention is the fact that they emit light in different colours depending on their size, in other words, "the emission wavelength is varied just by vary...
Chemical synthesis of nanotubes
Jan 11, 2019 (SPX)
Researchers from the Department of Chemistry have been hard at work in their recently renovated lab in the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Science. The...
Carrying and releasing nanoscale cargo with 'nanowrappers'
Jan 04, 2019 (SPX)
"Imagine you have a box but you can only use the outside and not the inside," said co-author Oleg Gang, leader of the CFN Soft and Bio Nanomaterials Group. "Thi...
Illuminating nanoparticle growth with X-rays
Jan 02, 2019 (SPX)
"Like a battery, hydrogen fuel cells convert stored chemical energy into electricity. The difference is that you're using a replenishable fuel so, in principle,...
Pitt chemical engineers develop new theory to build improved nanomaterials
Dec 17, 2018 (SPX)
But when introducing another metal in their structure, also known as "doping," researchers are unsure which position the metal will occupy and how it will affec...
MIT team invents method to shrink objects to the nanoscale
Dec 14, 2018 (SPX)
"It's a way of putting nearly any kind of material into a 3-D pattern with nanoscale precision," says Edward Boyden, an associate professor of biological engine...
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