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Nanoscale Current Events | Nanoscale News | 6 Nanoscale current events and Nanoscale news stories from Brightsurf. Find the latest Nanoscale research, discoveries and most popular current news and events. | 6 |
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Study Shows That Size Affects Structure of Hollow Nanoparticles
A new study from North Carolina State University shows that size plays a key role in determining the structure of certain hollow nanoparticles. View More (2010-04-13)
Nanoscale silver: No silver lining?
Widespread use of nanoscale silver will challenge regulatory agencies to balance important potential benefits against the possibility of significant environmental risk, highlighting the need to identify research priorities concerning this emerging technology, according to a new report released today by the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN). View More (2008-09-09)
Nano-cages 'fill up' with hydrogen
A "cagey" strategy to stack more hydrogen in nanoscale scaffoldings made of zinc-based boxes may yield a viable approach to storing hydrogen and, ultimately, replacing fossil fuels in future automobiles, according to new results from National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers. View More (2005-12-02)
Carbon in a twirl: The science behind a self-assembled nano-carbon helix
Nanomaterials exhibit unique properties that can only unfold when the structures of the material are very small - that is, at the nanoscale. View More (2013-05-17)
Nanotechnologists reveal the frictional characteristics of atomically thin sheets
A team of nanotechnology researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University has used friction force microscopy to determine the nanoscale frictional characteristics of four atomically-thin materials, discovering a universal characteristic for these very different materials. View More (2010-04-02)
Graphene Nanocomposite a Bridge to Better Batteries
Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have created a graphene and tin nanoscale composite material for high-capacity energy storage in renewable lithium ion batteries. View More (2011-07-28)
UCLA-led research team develops world's most powerful nanoscale microwave oscillators
A team of UCLA researchers has created the most powerful high-performance nanoscale microwave oscillators in the world, a development that could lead to cheaper, more energy-efficient mobile communication devices that deliver much better signal quality. View More (2012-06-26)
Nano-FTIR - A new era in modern analytical chemistry
Researchers from the nanoscience research center NanoGUNE (San Sebastian, Spain), the university of Munich (LMU, Germany) and Neaspec GmbH (Martinsried, Germany) present a new instrumental development that solves a prime question of materials science and nanotechnology: how to chemically identify materials at the nanometer scale. View More (2012-07-27)
New transistors: An alternative to silicon and better than graphene
Smaller and more energy-efficient electronic chips could be made using molybdenite. In an article appearing online January 30 in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, EPFL's Laboratory of Nanoscale Electronics and Structures (LANES) publishes a study showing that this material has distinct advantages over traditional silicon or graphene for use in electronics applications. View More (2011-01-31)
Engineers discover nanoscale balancing act that mirrors forces at work in living systems
A delicate balance of atomic forces can be exploited to make nanoparticle superclusters that are uniform in size-an attribute that's important for many nanotech applications but hard to accomplish, University of Michigan researchers say. View More (2011-08-24)
ORNL research paves way for larger, safer lithium ion batteries
Looking toward improved batteries for charging electric cars and storing energy from renewable but intermittent solar and wind, scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed the first high-performance, nanostructured solid electrolyte for more energy-dense lithium ion batteries. View More (2013-01-24)
Nanotech Research Featured in Nature Nanotechnology Journal
Using an RNA-powered nanomotor, University of Cincinnati (UC) biomedical engineering researchers have successfully developed an artificial pore able to transmit nanoscale material through a membrane. View More (2009-09-29)
ORNL microscopy generates new view of fuel cells
A novel microscopy method at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory is helping scientists probe the reactions that limit widespread deployment of fuel cell technologies. View More (2011-08-16)
Harvard scientists bend nanowires into 2-D and 3-D structures
Taking nanomaterials to a new level of structural complexity, scientists have determined how to introduce kinks into arrow-straight nanowires, transforming them into zigzagging two- and three-dimensional structures with correspondingly advanced functions. View More (2009-10-22)
Iowa State, Ames Laboratory scientists advance the understanding of the big getting bigger
Patricia Thiel of Iowa State University and the Ames Laboratory put a box of tissues to the right, a stack of coasters to the middle and a trinket box to the left. View More (2010-11-05)
Spallation Neutron Source gets initial go-ahead on second target
The U.S. Department of Energy has given its initial approval to begin plans for a second target station for the Spallation Neutron Source, expanding what is already the world's most powerful pulsed neutron scattering facility located at DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. View More (2009-01-20)
Traces of nanobubbles determine nanoboiling
Using a microscope and some extreme "snapshot" photography with shutter speeds only a few nanoseconds long, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Cornell University have uncovered the traces of ephemeral "nanobubbles" formed in boiling water on a microheater. View More (2007-04-02)
A nanoscale rope, and another step toward complex nanomaterials that assemble themselves
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have coaxed polymers to braid themselves into wispy nanoscale ropes that approach the structural complexity of biological materials. View More (2011-01-20)
Connecting the (quantum) dots
Recent research offers a new spin on using nanoscale semiconductor structures to build faster computers and electronics. Literally. View More (2013-02-27)
Berkeley Lab Researchers Create Next-Generation Chemical Mapping on the Nanoscale
A pixel is worth a thousand words? Not exactly how the saying goes, but in this case, it holds true: scientists at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry have pioneered a new chemical mapping method that provides unprecedented insight into materials at the nanoscale. View More (2011-03-29)
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