Researchers have built a mirror out of one of the strongest materials on the planet: diamond. By etching nanostructures onto the surface of a thin sheet of diamond, the research team built a highly reflective mirror that withstood, without damage,...
May 23, 2022
Graphene Manufacturing Group (GMG) has announced that it and Rio Tinto Group have signed a non-binding agreement to collaborate on energy saving and storage solutions. Rio Tinto is a mining and metals company that operates in 35 countries.
May 23, 2022
The messenger RNA COVID-19 vaccines, including ones made by Moderna and Pfizer, notched some famous successes and pioneered the use of mRNA technology along the way. Now, scientists are testing similar technologies as treatments for a variety of c...
May 23, 2022
Researchers create a flexible, in-pipe sensor sheet for the continuous monitoring of liquid quality. By measuring the voltage induced inside a carbon nanotube layer, the concentration of various analytes can be determined. This work can lead to si...
May 23, 2022
Study shows what happens when crystalline grains in metals reform at nanometer scales, improving metal properties.
May 23, 2022
Single-walled carbon nanohorns are an allotrope of carbon with promising properties for a variety of applications. Despite their promise, the majority carrier type (i.e., electrons or holes) that defines the electronic properties of this novel sem...
May 23, 2022
Scientists from the Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research (SANKEN) at Osaka University, in collaboration with Chuo University, Eindhoven University of Technology, and National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, have...
May 23, 2022
Combining multiple carbon nanomaterials in a single substance can yield surprising properties. KAUST researchers have created thin graphite films that could act as high-performance flexible heater panels, reaching several hundred degrees within se...
May 23, 2022
In a new report now published in Matter, Licong An, and a team of scientists in materials engineering, industrial engineering, and the nanotechnology center at Purdue University, U.S., and Wuhan University, China, described an advanced laser litho...
May 23, 2022
Researchers have successfully created the next-gen material called "graphene" with similar properties to graphene, but only somewhat better. Read on to learn how it fills the longstanding gap in carbon material science.
May 23, 2022
