The ever-more-humble carbon nanotube may be just the device to make solar panels—and anything else that loses energy through heat—far more efficient.
Jul 12, 2019
Kabiller Prize is the worlds largest monetary award in the area of nanomedicine Mirkin recognized for field-defining contributions, including discovery and development of spherical nucleic acids (...
Jul 12, 2019
An injection of nanoparticles can prevent the body’s immune system from overreacting to trauma, potentially preventing some spinal
Jul 12, 2019
Scientists are designing arrays of aligned single-wall carbon nanotubes to channel mid-infrared radiation (aka heat) and greatly raise the efficiency of solar energy systems.
Jul 12, 2019
The discovery of new families of two-dimensional (2-D) layered materials beyond graphene has always attracted great attention, but it remains challenging to artificially recreate the honeycomb atomic lattice structure with multi-components such as...
Jul 12, 2019
New “smart” glass can distinguish between different objects and could find applications in areas like facial recognition The post Nanophotonic structures enable artificial vision appeared first on Physics World.
Jul 12, 2019
In very hot or cold environments, conventional tape can lose its stickiness and leave behind an annoying residue. But while most people can avoid keeping taped items in a hot car or freezer, those...
Jul 12, 2019
Brazilian and European researchers have demonstrated exactly how a nanotechnology-based compound delivers an oral vaccine against hepatitis B to the immune system. When particles containing silica and an antigen combine, even though they are diffe...
Jul 12, 2019
TSU physicists, working with scientists from Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Germany and Korea, have discovered new nanomechanical properties of diamonds mined at the Skalnoe deposit of the Popigai astrobleme. Using a combination of experimental and the...
Jul 12, 2019
In order to create new and more efficient computers, medical devices, and other advanced technologies, researchers are turning to nanomaterials: materials manipulated on the scale of atoms or molecules that exhibit unique properties. Graphene--a ...
Jul 12, 2019
