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A golden age for particle analysis: Researchers develop a process to measure nanorods quickly and accurately

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Engineers have developed a method which allows the size and shape of nanoparticles in dispersions to be determined considerably quicker than ever before. Based on gold nanorods, they demonstrated how length and diameter distributions can be measur...

Nov 28, 2018

First Graphene Receives Commercial Scale Order for PureGRAPH™ Products

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

FGR is in receipt of what it believes to be the largest single order for the commercial supply of bulk graphene materials to date, thereby signalling that the commercialisation of graphene has gone...

Nov 28, 2018

Gold nanoparticle microsecond tracking with atomic-level localization precision

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

By using newly developed annular illumination total internal reflection dark-field microscopy, researchers have succeeded in achieving atomic-level, 1.3 angstrom localization precision with gold nanoparticles at 1 millisecond time resolution.

Nov 28, 2018

Nanoscale blood test technique set to springboard cancer discoveries

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

A technique to get more information from the blood of cancer patients than previously possible has been developed.

Nov 28, 2018

Simulations Suggest Graphene Can Stretch to Be a Tunable Ion Filter

chemeurope.com   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have conducted simulations suggesting that graphene, in addition to its many other useful features, can be modified with special pores to act as a tunable filter or strainer...

Nov 28, 2018

Molecules that self-assemble into monolayers for efficient perovskite solar cells

chemeurope.com   -   Scientific News Websites

A team at the HZB has discovered a new method for producing efficient contact layers in perovskite solar cells. It is based on molecules that organise themselves into a monolayer. In recent years, solar cells based on metal halide perovskites hav...

Nov 28, 2018

Nanoscale blood test technique set to springboard cancer discoveries

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

A technique to get more information from the blood of cancer patients than previously possible has been developed.

Nov 28, 2018

Four Georgia Tech Faculty Members Named AAAS Fellows | Research Horizons

Georgia Tech   -   Organizations and Universities Websites

Four Georgia Tech faculty members have been named 2018 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as AAAS Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers.  Electronics and N...

Nov 28, 2018

'Artificial leaf' uses visible light to accelerate chemical reactions

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Over the past several years, metal nanoparticles photosensitization over semiconductors with a large band gap has emerged as a promising strategy for developing visible-light responsive photocatalytic materials. In new work, researchers demonstrat...

Nov 28, 2018

A golden age for particle analysis

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Process engineers have developed a method which allows the size and shape of nanoparticles in dispersions to be determined considerably quicker than ever before.

Nov 28, 2018

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