From dyes to construction materials, and from cosmetic products to electronics and medicine, nanomaterials are found in many different applications. But what are these materials? "Nanomaterials are defined purely by their size," explains...
Dec 16, 2019
Made up of 2D sheets of carbon atoms arranged in honeycomb lattices, graphene has been intensively studied in recent years. As well as the material's diverse structural properties, physicists have pai...
Dec 16, 2019
In a recently published paper in Science Advances, Feng Ding of the Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials, within the Institute of Basic Science (IBS, South Korea) and colleagues, have achieved...
Dec 16, 2019
Are you ready for the future? Back in 1869, Russia's Dmitri Mendeleev began to classify the elements according to their chemical properties, giving rise to the Periodical Table of Elements. "I saw in a dream a table where all elements fe...
Dec 16, 2019
Nanotechnology is booming, but risk assessment for these tiny particles is a laborious process that presents significant challenges. To find more efficient test methods, researchers took a closer look at the biological effects.
Dec 16, 2019
A new article provides a significant new insight into our understanding of uranium biogeochemistry and could help with the nuclear legacy. The recent study is the first time that researchers have shown that a uranium-sulfide complex can form under...
Dec 16, 2019
In a new study published on Scientific Reports, Mohammad-Hossein Beigi and a research team in the departments of Engineering and Applied Science and Cellular Biotechnology in Canada and Iran described a new method to form biocompatible biomaterial...
Dec 16, 2019
Scientists explain why some molecules spontaneously arrange themselves into five slices of nanoscale pie. Materials formed on vanishingly
Dec 16, 2019
Tidying up. Not an idea associated with living cells on the nanoscale. But just as a mismash of IKEA bits scattered throughout your bedroom is less useful than a neatly-assembled dresser, synthetic biologists wish to have tools to organize "s...
Dec 16, 2019
Nanotechnology is booming, but risk assessment for these tiny particles is a laborious process that presents significant challenges to the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR). To find more efficient test methods, researchers at the ...
Dec 16, 2019
