A triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) utilizes charges arising from friction similar to the static we experience on dry winter days; and by nanostructuring the materials in a TENG device, the produced energy could be amplified by increasing the con...
Apr 23, 2018
A new method has been developed to make drugs 'smarter' using nanotechnology so they will be more effective at reaching their target.
Apr 23, 2018
New research has shown that carefully structured light and matching arrangements of metal nanostructures can be combined to alter the properties of the generated light at the nanometer scale. The teams have shown that the efficiency of nonlinear o...
Apr 20, 2018
What happens when you excite novel assemblies of nanomaterials using structured light? Joint research between Tampere University of Technology (TUT) (Finland) and University of Tübingen (Germany) has shown that carefully structured light and match...
Apr 20, 2018
A new blood test using gold nanoparticles could soon give oncologists an early and more accurate prognosis of how cancer treatment is progressing and help guide the on-going therapy of patients.
Apr 20, 2018
Flexible nanodiamonds promise to open up novel optical and electronic properties
Apr 19, 2018
Flexible nanodiamonds promise to open up novel optical and electronic properties
Apr 19, 2018
All electronic devices consist of billions of transistors, the key building block invented in Bell Labs in the late 1940s. Early transistors were as large as one centimeter, but now measure about 14 nanometers. There has also been a race to furthe...
Apr 19, 2018
The discovery that water microdroplets can replace potentially toxic agents in the creation of gold nanoparticles and nanowires could help usher in a new era of 'green chemistry.'
Apr 19, 2018
A new blood test using gold nanoparticles could soon give oncologists an early and more accurate prognosis of how cancer treatment is progressing and help guide the on-going therapy of patients.
Apr 19, 2018
