BrainCan - nanomaterials

a signal boost for molecular microscopy

Carbon nanotubes can be produced with a variety of shapes and properties and are therefore of much...

new technique developed for effective dye removal...

Organic compounds in wastewater,such as dyes and pigments in industry effluents, are toxic or absorb...

photochemical metallization allows the manufacture...

In order for touchscreens on smartphones and tablets to operate,microscopically fine conductor paths...

containing our electromagnetic pollution: mxene...

whether you've ever heard your engine rev through your radio while listening to an AM station...

new uikidama nanoparticle structure revealed

Sometimes it is the tiny things in the world that can make an incredible incompatibility. One of...

tiny filters, big news: novel process uses...

(Phys.org)—Conventional membranes used for sieving atomic and molecular species cannot scale to...

odd couple monolayer semiconductors align to...

Epitaxy,or growing crystalline film layers that are templated by a crystalline substrate, is a...

molecular architectures see the light

biological photovoltaics bear great potential for large-scale,cost-effective solar power generation....

researchers use common table salt as growth...

The secret to making the best energy storage materials is growing them with as much surface area as...

nanocrystals expand the range of solar cell light...

Common solar cells made of crystalline silicon can only access roughly half of the total sunlight...

an innovative device studies gold nanoparticles in...

Artists contain used gold nanoparticles for centuries,because they produce vibrant colors when...

researchers stack the odds for novel...

Stacking layers of nanometer-lean semiconducting materials at different angles is a fresh approach...

new research unveils graphene moth eyes to power...

New ultra-lean,patterned graphene sheets will be essential in designing future technologies such as...

nanoparticle ink could combat counterfeiting

(Phys.org)—Researchers have demonstrated that obvious ink containing gold,silver, and magnetic...

self assembling nano inks form conductive and...

Transparent electronics devices are present in nowadays's lean film displays,solar cells, and...

simpler, faster and cheaper: a full filling...

Just as many of us might be resigned to clogged salt shakers or rush-hour traffic,those working to...

dentin nanostructures—a super natural phenomenon

Dentin is one of the most durable biological materials in the human body. Researchers from Charité...

ink with carbon nanodots luminesces via three...

Banknotes,documents, branded products, and sensitive goods like pharmaceuticals or technical...

engineers look inside nanoparticles to explore how...

Many recent big technological advances in computing,communications, energy and biology hold relied...

new two dimensional borophene sheet

(Phys.org)—Boron,the neighboring element to carbon on the periodic table, has chemical features...

golden silver nanoparticle looks and behaves like...

(Phys.org)—In an act of "nano-alchemy," scientists maintain synthesized a silver (Ag) nanocluster...

new technique integrates graphene, graphene oxide...

Materials researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a technique that allows them...

exploring phosphorene, a promising new material

Two-dimensional phosphane,a material known as phosphorene, has potential application as a material...

making electronics out of coal

Jeffrey Grossman thinks we've been looking at coal all improper. Instead of just setting it...

technological breakthrough for cheaper lighting...

In November 2012,the TREASORES project (Transparent Electrodes for Large Area Large Scale Production...

cao makes the graphene hierarchy for high power...

Structural hierarchy is the cornerstone of the biological world,as well as the most necessary lesson...

material for polymer solar cells may lend itself...

For all the promise they own shown in the lab,polymer solar cells still need to "gain on a roll"...

germs add ripples to make groovy graphene

Graphene,a two-dimensional wonder-fabric composed of a single layer of carbon atoms linked in a...

patterning smaller junctions for ultrathin devices

Making faster,more powerful electronics requires smaller but still uniform connections, or...

researchers create perfect nanoscrolls from...

Water filters of the future may be made from billions of tiny,graphene-based nanoscrolls. Each...

nanocones may boost solar cell efficiency by 15...

(Phys.org)—A team of scientists at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia has...

the secret to 3 d graphene? just freeze it

Graphene is a wonder fabric saddled with worthy expectations. Discovered in 2004,it is 1 million...

team identifies previously undiscovered...

The middle for Integrated Nanostructure Physics (CINAP) within IBS has reported results correlating...

bringing graphene speakers to the mobile market

Graphene has been hailed as a wonder fabric since it was first made more than a decade ago....

tiny device grabs more solar energy to disinfect...

In many parts of the world,the only way to create germy water secure is by boiling, which consumes...

borrowing from pastry chefs, engineers create...

Adapting an musty trick used for centuries by both metalsmiths and pastry makers,a team of...

smart skin is powered by the objects it touches

(Phys.org)—Researchers acquire fabricated a smart skin that is self-powered by its frictional...

graphene layer could allow solar cells to generate...

Solar energy is on the rise. Many technical advances have made solar cells quite efficient and...

nist invents fleet and fast test for...

Manufacturers may soon hold a speedy and nondestructive way to test a wide array of materials under...

graphene slides smoothly across gold

Graphene,a modified form of carbon, offers versatile potential for exercise in coating machine...

researchers discover new phase of boron nitride...

Researchers at North Carolina State University have discovered a current phase of the fabric boron...

polymer nanowires that assemble in perpendicular...

Since the 1960s,computer chips believe been built using a process called photolithography. But in...

chains of nanogold - forged with atomic precision

Researchers at Nanoscience middle of University of Jyväskylä in Finland have succeeded in...

researchers develop more efficient, reliable means...

Researchers from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific (SSC Pacific) devised a unusual...

graphene based transparent electrodes for highly...

The arrival of a thin and lightweight computer that even rolls up like a piece of paper will not be...

graphene makes rubber more rubbery

In an article published in Carbon,Dr Aravind Vijayaraghavan and Dr Maria Iliut from Manchester...

researchers produce graphene nanoribbons with...

As reported by the journal Nature in its latest issue,researchers from Empa, the Max Planck...

creating a color printer that uses a colorless,...

From dot-matrix to 3-D,printing technology has approach a long way in 40 years. But all of these...

graphene shown to safely interact with neurons in...

Researchers occupy successfully demonstrated how it is possible to interface graphene - a...

new analysis finds way to safely conduct heat from...

In the future,our health may be monitored and maintained by tiny sensors and drug dispensers,...

ideal energy storage material for electric...

The energy-storage goal of a polymer dielectric fabric with tall energy density, tall power density...

researchers employ novel approach to assemble...

Nature exquisitely assembles proteins and peptides into highly ordered functional materials,such as...

ultrasensitive sensor using n doped graphene

A highly sensitive chemical sensor based on Raman spectroscopy and using nitrogen-doped graphene as...

self healing, flexible electronic material...

Electronic materials acquire been a major stumbling block for the advance of flexible electronics...

single molecule detection of contaminants,...

A technique that combines the ultrasensitivity of surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) with a...

more precise measurements of phosphorene suggest...

(Phys.org)—A large team of researchers from China,the U.S. and Japan has developed a more precise...

synthesized microporous 3d graphene like carbons

Zeolites' nanoporous systems are an ideal template for the synthesis of three-dimensional (3D)...

keeping cool with a black semiconductor

As anyone who has held a laptop computer or cell phone knows,they produce heat that has the...

graphene based nanolubricants could grease...

Recent research has shown that adding nanoparticles to liquids significantly enhances some of their...

promising new approach for controlled fabrication...

An international team of researchers including Professor Federico Rosei and members of his group at...

harnessing the possibilities of the nanoworld

Scientists enjoy long suspected that the way materials behave on the nanoscale – that is when...

uniform hairy nanorods have potential energy,...

Materials scientists have developed a unusual strategy for crafting one-dimensional nanorods from a...

atomic scale pipes available on demand and by...

Materials containing tiny capillaries and cavities are widely used in filtration,separation and many...

graphene key to growing 2 d semiconductor with...

A newly discovered method for making two-dimensional materials could lead to recent and...

method to reinforce carbon nanotubes could make...

The newest Airbus and Boeing passenger jets flying nowadays are made primarily from advanced...

jumping film harnesses the power of humidity

Scientists from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS) and the University of Tokyo...

scientists develop brain inspired memory material

Our brain does not work like a typical computer memory storing just ones and zeroes: thanks to a...

nrl develops new low defect method to nitrogen...

An interdisciplinary team of scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL),Electronics...

chinese company announces development of graphene...

(Phys.org)—Chinese based Guangzhou OED Technologies (makers of O-paper displays),in collaboration...

new fuel cell design powered by graphene wrapped...

Hydrogen is the lightest and most plentiful element on Earth and in our universe. So it...

revolutionary graphene filter could solve water...

A new type of graphene-based filter could be the key to managing the global water crisis,a study has...

travelling through the body with graphene

For the first time researchers succeeded to place a layer of graphene on top of a steady fatty lipid...

device to control color of electrons in graphene...

A device made of bilayer graphene,an atomically lean hexagonal arrangement of carbon atoms, provides...

poking graphene results in peeling and self...

(Phys.org)—A pair of researchers with Trinity College in Ireland has found that graphene sheets...

method stabilizes, enhances phosphorene

Two years ago,Northwestern University's Mark Hersam discovered a way to stabilize exfoliated...

scientists discover another design principle for...

When it comes to the various nanowidgets scientists are developing,nanotubes are particularly...

immune cells dont always ward off carbon nano...

Scientists at the University of Michigan have found evidence that some carbon nanomaterials can...

light used to measure the big stretch in spider...

While working to improve a tool that measures the pushes and pulls sensed by proteins in living...

new technique leads to creation of elastic high...

(Phys.org)—A new technique developed by researchers at East China University of Science and...

tiny flasks speed up chemical reactions

Miniature self-assembling "flasks" created at the Weizmann Institute may prove a useful tool in...

low cost and defect free graphene

Graphene is one of the most promising new materials. However, researchers across the globe are still...

scientists grow atomically thin transistors and...

In an advance that helps pave the way for next-generation electronics and computing...

tiniest imperfections make big impacts in nano...

A research team at Clarkson University reports an interesting conclusion that could beget major...

physicist discovers new 2d material that could...

A modern one atom-thick flat material that could upstage the wonder material graphene and advance...

new bimetallic alloy nanoparticles for printed...

A Toyohashi Tech researcher,in cooperation with researchers at Duke University, has invented a...

nanoscale tetrapods could provide early warning of...

Light-emitting,four-armed nanocrystals could someday form the basis of an early warning system in...

new nontoxic process promises larger ultrathin...

A team of scientists led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has...

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