Nanotechnologies News

Nov 29, 2013 by News Staff

Australian scientists have revealed the bacterial killing potential of black silicon, a type of silicon that has been etched to create long narrow nanoprotrusions on its surface. The Wandering Percher dragonfly (Diplacodes bipunctata). Insets show 3D reconstruction of the upper surface of black silicon, upper left, and the surface of the dragonfly forewings. Earlier this year the team discovered that the wing of the cicada Psaltoda claripennis can...

Oct 10, 2013 by News Staff

According to scientists at Rice University, a material called carbyne will be the strongest material if and when anyone can make it in bulk. Nanorods or...

Sep 10, 2013 by News Staff

A team of researchers led by Dr Alon Gorodetsky of the University of California, Irvine, has developed a tunable biomimetic infrared camouflage coating...

Sep 10, 2013 by News Staff

Scientists from the United States and Switzerland have demonstrated a novel mechanism for extracting energy from light. Dr Bonnell and her colleagues fabricated...

Aug 6, 2013 by News Staff

Using an atomic force microscope and a method called thermochemical nanolithography, scientists have painted the Mona Lisa on a surface about one-third...

Apr 19, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A team of researchers at the University of California San Diego has created ‘nanosponges’ capable of removing a broad class of toxins from the bloodstream,...

Mar 15, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Scientists from Singapore and Belgium have successfully altered the properties of water, making it corrosive enough to etch diamonds. Diamond particles...

Feb 22, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

By studying a bright blue pigment used in Ancient Egypt about 5,000 years ago, U.S. chemists have uncovered clues toward the development of new nanomaterials...

Sep 18, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Dutch nanotechnologists have developed a new material that is not only extremely water-repellent but also extremely oil-repellent. The newly developed...

Jul 18, 2012 by News Staff

A network of porous carbon tubes that is three-dimensionally interwoven at nano and micro level – this is the lightest material in the world. Aerographite...

Jun 20, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Researchers from two institutions in Patna, India, have developed an environmentally friendly approach to making silver nanoparticles. Pomegranates at...

Nov 18, 2011 by News Staff

Researchers from University of California Irvine, HRL Laboratories and the California Institute of Technology have developed the world’s lightest material...

Sep 26, 2011 by Natali Anderson

Researchers from MIT and Children’s Hospital Boston have built cardiac patches studded with tiny gold wires that could be used to create pieces of tissue...

Sep 22, 2011 by Natali Anderson

Scientists at Harvard University have created a material that repels just about any type of liquid, including blood and oil, and does so even under harsh...

Sep 14, 2011 by News Staff

Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, during tests of new nanomaterial called nanoblades for use in hydrogen storage, have discovered that it...

Aug 30, 2011 by News Staff

Researchers from Germany, France and the United Kingdom have engineered a material that exhibits a rare and versatile trait in magnetism at room temperature. Writing...