#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.
The #quantum_dot #market will grow to 61.4 billion dollars with a growth rate of 61.4 % from 2019 to 2024. The largest demand in the market is for the #display and #monitor_devices.
#Post_CMOS (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor) and High-performance treatment of water & waste resources are two of the five areas priorities of the South Korea Nano-Convergence 2020 Program.
Various manufacturers have commercially been producing #cadmium free #quantum_dots products because cadmium quantum dots may be banned in the near future in many countries.
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.
By functionalizing of #cellulose nanomaterials, new opportunities for products such as #pharmaceuticals, #chemical_sensors, #self_sterilizing surfaces, and electronic wood based devices may be achieved.
#Nanomaterials, #nanomedicine, #nano_optics and #nanoelectronics had the highest shares among all nanotechnology events in 2018 respectively.
One potential of nanotechnology in #mining_industry is the use of needles composed of nanosized #supramolecular_wires that can extract #gold from practically any medium without the need for using toxic chemicals.
Decreasing the production cost of #graphene_oxide up to 22 € per kg will make it applicable for areas such as #concrete and #asphalt bitumen.
Intelligent #sensor labels in #packaging have attractive applications in #food_industry such as indicating the ripeness of fruit.
Stronger and more flexible than graphene, #Borophene - a single-atom layer of boron - could revolutionize #sensors, #batteries, and catalytic chemistry.
Almost half of patents published by #Tsinghua_University in 2018 are in the field of nanotechnology indicating nanotechnology as one of the strongest research areas of the university.
Asia Pacific is considered a key region for the development of the #borophene #market till 2025, due to the demand from the #semiconductor and #chemical industries.
According to SCImagoJr, #Nature_Nanotechnology, #Advanced_Materials, and #Nano_Letters show the highest ranks in the field of nanoscience and technology.
#Nanosensors will have a #market of over $1200 million in 2021, and the share of #water monitoring sensors is predicted to be about $200 million.
Among Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) members, Iran, Turkey, and Malaysia get the top 3 spots in making contribution to the nanotechnology field.