New work explores thermoelectric screen printing
What if you could easily print a thin layer of material - for use anywhere - that would allow you to create flexible energy harvesters or coolers? That may soon be a reality.
Sep 21st, 2016
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Applying heat to stay on track
A clever electro-thermal actuator and lever system keeps hard drive recording heads on track.
Sep 21st, 2016
Read moreSmart material can hunt and snap cancer
The pursuit of microscopic drugs that can be tracked as they fight cancer is a step closer.
Sep 21st, 2016
Read moreSharpshooting nanoparticles hit the target
Multi stimuli-responsive nanocapsules selectively deliver drugs to exactly where they are needed.
Sep 21st, 2016
Read moreNew type of buckypaper could pave the way for more protective materials and efficient batteries
Researchers have developed a novel type of 'buckypaper' - a thin film composed of carbon nanotubes - that has better thermal and electrical properties than most types of buckypaper previously developed.
Sep 20th, 2016
Read moreDirect observation of graphene decoupling on Cu(111)
A recent quantum mechanical study of graphene has elucidated the intercalation mechanism and pathways for graphene decoupling from the copper substrate.
Sep 20th, 2016
Read moreA camera that can see unlike any imager before it
By making a detector's pixels smarter than ever, DARPA aims to lay the foundation for multi-purpose imaging sensors that behave like many types of eyes at once.
Sep 20th, 2016
Read moreFighting cancer with sticky nanoparticles
Sticky nanoparticles that deliver drugs precisely to their targets - and then stay there - could play a crucial role in fighting ovarian and uterine cancers.
Sep 20th, 2016
Read moreWinning teams of the Nanotechnology Startup Challenge in Cancer
Winning teams will move forward to the third and final phase of the challenge - the Startup Phase. In this phase, the winning teams will form their startups to advance cancer nanotechnology inventions.
Sep 20th, 2016
Read moreSingle crystal measures radioactivity
Researchers have developed single crystals made of lead halide perovskites, which are able to gage radioactive radiation with high precision. Initial experiments have shown that these crystals, which can be manufactured from aqueous solutions or low-priced solvents, work just as well as conventional cadmium telluride semi-conductors, which are considerably more complicated to produce.
Sep 20th, 2016
Read moreNanoscale tetrapods could provide early warning of a material's failure
Scientists are developing a new way to detect microscopic fractures in materials in the field.
Sep 20th, 2016
Read moreSeeing silicon crystal transform to amorphous at the atomic scale
Scientists have observed at atomic scale a previously unknown mechanism of shear-driven crystal to amorphously transform in silicon.
Sep 20th, 2016
Read moreNanoscale Canadian flag sets world record in lead-up to nation's 150th birthday
The Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo set a world record for creating a Canadian flag measuring about one one-hundredth the width of a human hair.
Sep 20th, 2016
Read moreGraphene nanoribbons show promise for healing spinal injuries
The combination of graphene nanoribbons and a common polymer could someday be of critical importance to healing damaged spinal cords in people.
Sep 20th, 2016
Read moreCleaning concrete contaminated with chemicals
A research project uses computer simulations to examine how chemical agents soak into and bind within concrete.
Sep 19th, 2016
Read moreNucleon interactions key to quantum phase transition
Research sheds new light on the ways in which protons and neutrons can bind and even undergo a quantum phase transition. The work has implications for understanding the connections between nuclear interactions and nuclear structure found in nature.
Sep 19th, 2016
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