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Goblet tricks suggests ancient Romans were first to use nanotechnology 27 Aug 2013 | 07:30 pm
(Phys.org) —Recent evidence suggests that the Roman craftsmen who created the Lycurgus Cup, a glass drinking goblet, used nanotechnology to cause the goblet to change color under different lighting. T...
Chunky mobile devices? Soft graphene could help you downsize 27 Aug 2013 | 06:40 pm
Assuming you are geeky enough to open up any mobile device on the market – a phone, tablet or laptop – the most glaringly obvious component of the device is the battery: it generally consumes up to (i...
Size matters as nanocrystals go through phases 26 Aug 2013 | 11:51 pm
(Phys.org) —Understanding what happens to a material as it undergoes phase transformations – changes from a solid to a liquid to a gas or a plasma – is of fundamental scientific interest and critical ...
Researchers figure out how to 'grow' carbon nanotubes with specific atomic structures 26 Aug 2013 | 11:49 pm
Move over, silicon. In a breakthrough in the quest for the next generation of computers and materials, researchers at USC have solved a longstanding challenge with carbon nanotubes: how to actually bu...
Ultra-high-speed nanomaterial synthesis process developed using laser beams 26 Aug 2013 | 06:35 pm
Dr. Jun Yeop, Yeo and the research team led by Professor Seung Hwan, Ko (both of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at KAIST) successfully developed a process enabling the location-determinable,...
Ultra-high-strength metamaterial developed using graphene 26 Aug 2013 | 06:26 pm
New metamaterial has been developed exhibiting hundreds of times greater strength than pure metals. Researchers from KAIST have developed a composite nanomaterial. The nanomaterial consists of graphen...
New nanomaterial increases yield of solar cells 26 Aug 2013 | 04:42 pm
Researchers from the FOM Foundation, Delft University of Technology, Toyota Motor Europe and the University of California have developed a nanostructure with which they can make solar cells highly eff...
Plastic products could easily become electronic with first moldable all-carbon circuits 23 Aug 2013 | 06:50 pm
(Phys.org) —There has been a great deal of research lately on flexible electronics, but so far these devices (which are mostly made of carbon) still use metal electrodes and oxide insulators, and thes...
Breakthrough advances nanomaterials for printable solar cells 23 Aug 2013 | 06:09 pm
An RMIT University research collaboration with top scientists in Australia and Japan is advancing next generation solar cells.
Toxic nanoparticles might be entering human food supply, study finds 23 Aug 2013 | 02:19 am
Over the last few years, the use of nanomaterials for water treatment, food packaging, pesticides, cosmetics and other industries has increased. For example, farmers have used silver nanoparticles as ...
