Nanoscale knowledge of the relationships between water, friction and mineral chemistry could lead to a better understanding of earthquake dynamics, researchers said in a new study. Engineers used microscopic friction measurements to confirm that, ...
Jun 27, 2018
An ultrathin cloaking material has been developed that can hide hot objects, such as human bodies and military vehicles, from IR cameras. The new “stealth sheet” is <1 m thick and absorbs approximately 94 percent of the IR light it encounters, ...
Jun 27, 2018
A Rice University-led team will conduct further development and field testing of a desalination technology that uses nanoparticles and sunlight to treat water, with help from a $1.7 million grant from the Department of Energy (DOE). The technolo...
Jun 27, 2018
Scientists at Brown University have found out another unique and potentially beneficial property of graphene. The findings could be used in guiding nanoscale self-assembly and the analysis of DNA or...
Jun 27, 2018
Scientists investigated the effect of hierarchical Bi2MoO6 nanosheet arrays growing on three-dimensional Ni foam synthesized by one-step template-free route.
Jun 27, 2018
When it comes to the "smell test," the nose isn't always the best judge of food quality. Now in a study appearing in ACS' journal Nano Letters, scientists report that they have developed a wireless tagging device that can send signals to smartphon...
Jun 27, 2018
Hunters don camouflage clothing to blend in with their surroundings. But thermal camouflage—or the appearance of being the same temperature as one's environment—is much more difficult. Now researchers, reporting in ACS' journal Nano Letters, have ...
Jun 27, 2018
Microsystem and nanotechnology systems developer CMC Microsystems and Advanced Micro Foundry (AMF), a Singapore-based manufacturer of silicon photonic integrated circuits, are partnering to develop a new design automation platform for silicon phot...
Jun 27, 2018
According to Yulia Kuznetsova, defects in nanoparticles play a very serious role in the formation of their real structure and physical properties. Therefore, having learned to create the necessary defects in the required quantities, we can contro...
Jun 27, 2018
Researchers have discovered another peculiar and potentially useful property of graphene, one-atom-thick sheets of carbon, that could be useful in guiding nanoscale self-assembly or in analyzing DNA or other biomolecules.
Jun 27, 2018
