According to a new study from Lund University, there is a significant risk that plastic waste in the environment discharges nano-sized particles called nanoplastics. The researchers investigated what...
Dec 20, 2018
The story of the lysosome is a classic smear campaign. Once dismissed as the garbage disposal of the cell—it does break down unneeded cell debris—it is now valued by scientists who realized all that dirty work also controls survival, metabolism, l...
Dec 20, 2018
In its regular form, graphene cannot be used as an alternative to silicon chips for nanoelectronics applications. Its energy band structure is well known, leaving no magnetic effects and no energy...
Dec 20, 2018
Haydale (AIM: HAYD), the global advanced materials group were pleased to attend the official opening of the £60 million Masdar Building by His Royal Highness, The Duke of York, on 10 December,...
Dec 20, 2018
Scientists have discovered a host of new and unexpected nanoparticles and found a way to control their composition and properties.
Dec 20, 2018
Advancement in technology is making life easier. However, innovation in nano-materials has made them important enough and now they are represented as the most promising class of new materials due to their intriguing optical, electronic and redox p...
Dec 20, 2018
A new type of hyperbolic metamaterial allowes researchers to have greater flexibility of manipulating light-matter interactions at the nanoscale.
Dec 20, 2018
New finding could be important for developing more efficient and ultrafast photodetectors and perhaps even improved solar panels The post Pristine graphene produces giant photoresponse appeared first on Physics World.
Dec 19, 2018
Novel spintronics applications could stem from introducing holes into graphene to form triangular antidot lattices, granting the material new magnetic properties.
Dec 19, 2018
Proteins designed in the lab can now zip together in much the same way that DNA molecules zip up to form a double helix. The technique could enable the design of protein nanomachines that can potentially help diagnose and treat disease, allow for ...
Dec 19, 2018
