Researchers at the University of Maine and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are collaborating on a new way to dry non-aggregated cellulose nanofiber—a material that could replace plastics in a wide ra...
Jan 31, 2026
Researchers developed a vortex method to dry non-aggregated cellulose nanofibers from slurry, offering a more efficient, scalable alternative to freeze and spray drying.
Jan 31, 2026
Plaid Technologies has announced the shipment of an initial quantity of its proprietary graphene material to Petro Flow LLC in advance of the first planned field tests of graphene-enhanced wellbore cement for plugging and abandonment (P&A)...
Jan 31, 2026
The precise control of tiny droplets on surfaces is essential for advanced manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and next‐generation lab‐on‐a‐chip diagnostics. However, once droplet volume reaches pico- and nanoliter scales, the droplets become extremel...
Jan 30, 2026
A new gas sensor using ruthenium dioxide nanosheets achieves ultra-sensitive ethanol detection down to 5 ppb, enabling real-time breath alcohol monitoring at under 30 milliwatts.
Jan 30, 2026
Researchers at the International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials (ARCI) in India have reported high-voltage supercapacitors based on a dual-functional porous graphene carbon nanocomposite (PGCN) electrode, which co...
Jan 30, 2026
Argo Graphene Solutions has announced the commencement of specialized design and testing for its proprietary graphene-infused asphalt mix at its research and development facility in Saskatchewan. Argo has secured a supply of graphene to be used fo...
Jan 30, 2026
A surface capable of responding to chemical signals generated by microorganisms and automatically producing biocidal substances—this is not a futuristic vision, but a description of how the B-STING silica nanocomposite works. The new material, dev...
Jan 29, 2026
By combining two fundamentally different microscopy techniques, researchers can now measure the optical properties of a sample with pinpoint accuracy. The original goal was to investigate biological samples on a molecular scale—but this soon led t...
Jan 29, 2026
In a breakthrough that could power next-generation electronics, sensors, and energy storage devices, CMU engineers have developed a fabrication technique that arranges MXene nanosheets, each a million times thinner than a sheet of paper, into comp...
Jan 29, 2026
