Catalysts, which are widely used in oil, petrochemical, automotive and pharmaceutical industries, are among the most important and strategic requirements for a countrys industrial development.
Oct 18, 2018
An Iranian knowledge-based company has used nanotechnology to produce nylon fabrics that could cool down human body by reflecting infrared radiation.
Oct 18, 2018
A research team led by Denis Kosyanov at the Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) has received grant funding from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) for developing and standardizing manufacturing processes for materials based on las...
Oct 18, 2018
Personal electronic devices—smartphones, computers, TVs, tablets, screens of all kinds—are a significant and growing source of the world's electronic waste. Many of these products use nanomaterials, but little is known about how these modern ...
Oct 18, 2018
In novel concepts of magnetic data storage, it is intended to send small magnetic bits back and forth in a chip structure, store them densely packed and read them out later. The magnetic stray field generates problems when trying to generate parti...
Oct 18, 2018
How to create nanocages, i.e., robust and stable objects with regular voids and tunable properties? Short segments of DNA molecules are perfect candidates for the controllable design of novel complex structures. Physicists from the University of V...
Oct 18, 2018
Findings can help scientists engineer nanoparticles that are 'benign by design'.
Oct 18, 2018
Graphene has been hailed as the material of the future. As yet, however, little is known about whether and how graphene affects our health if it gets into the body. A team of researchers from Empa and the Adolphe Merkle Institute (AMI) in Fribourg...
Oct 18, 2018
Physicists investigated methodologies to synthesize DNA-based dendrimers in the lab and to predict their behavior using detailed computer simulations.
Oct 18, 2018
By putting an 'invisibility cloak' over magnetic nanostructures, researchers wre able to reduce tha magnetic stray field in a fashion allowing for small yet mobile bits.
Oct 18, 2018