#Highways_England is looking to avert deterioration in roads by investigating the use of #graphene in surfaces. Adding graphene into maintenance operations has the potential to extend asset life and make the network perform at an industry-changing level.
#Nanofluids: one #US_patent for every 240 papers in 2018! The high volume of theoretical and computational studies or low commercialization potential of nanofluids could be the reasons for the difference.
#Borophene is one of the three nanomaterials have been had the highest amount of #average_citation_per_article during the last three years.
The UK government announced a £153 million investment into efforts to commercialize #quantum_computing. The UK’s National Quantum Technologies Programme has now passed £1 billion in investments since its inception in 2014.
In the first half of 2019, more than 70 nanotechnology #standards have been published, most of them are #test_methods and #specifications, respectively.
#Crystalline_cellulose is the most abundant #birefringent #biocrystal in nature shows birefringent properties that can be used in printing #invisible_designs and #anti_fraud applications.
The U.S. National Academies have recommended that #NNI agencies should use innovation incentive prizes as #XPrize and #InnoCentive to engage a broader community to solve problems.
About 70 % of #nanopublications are published jointly by more than one country each year. Some states, such as Saudi Arabia, have the highest share of #joint_nano_articles (more than 85 %), and some, like China, has the lowest percentage.
Logic and memory devices that use #nanomagnetic mechanisms to store and manipulate information, require no #energy to maintain their magnetic state.
#Nanozymes have recently been discovered as a new breakthrough which comes up with a promising insight into the next generations of #bionanomaterials in various industrial fields.
Intelligent #sensor labels in #packaging have attractive applications in #food_industry such as indicating the ripeness of fruit.
Among Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) members, Iran, Turkey, and Malaysia get the top 3 spots in making contribution to the nanotechnology field.
Various aviation companies are developing de-icing #nanocoatings for aircraft surfaces to prevent the snow-related flight delays.
#Nanofluids are mainly used as coolant in #heat_transfer equipment, but novel applications include electromagnetic machines, electronic vehicles, data centers, fuel cells, and so on.
As a voluntary nanotechnology certification program, #NanoVerify monitors and processes Malaysian products with the claims of nano-elements.
In Canada, the new substances that fall within the #nano_scale range must be identified under the New Substances Notification #Regulations (Chemicals and Polymers).
The application of #nanofiber for #water_filtration holds a lage market share which shows faster growth rate compared to the other applications of this nanomaterial.
Using #carbon_nanotubes in manufacturing of long #wind_turbine improves strength of the turbine without increasing its weight, thereby improving the potential of #power_generation.
In 2018, the share of #nanotechnology_patents in the total patents filed at USPTO reached 2.8% while the share for #nanotechnology_publications was around 10%.
#Composite, #sensors, #batteries, #medicine and #automotive were 2018's top 5 #graphene applications, respectively.