An international team of scientists said in a study they had developed a stretchy yarn made of carbon nanotubes – tiny strands of carbon atoms up to 10,000 times smaller than a hair – that produces electricity from a host of natural sources…….. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/09/this-elastic-yarn-could-be-the-future-of-power-generation?utm_content=buffer825e3&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Super thin photovoltaic devices underpin solar technology and gains in the efficiency of their production are therefore keenly sought. KAUST researchers have combined and rearranged different semiconductors to create so-called lateral p-n heterojunctions–a simpler process they hope will transform the fabrication of solar cells, self-powered nanoelectronics as well as ultrathin, transparent, flexible devices……. https://www.nanotechnologyworld.org/single-post/2017/10/17/Think-laterally-to-sidestep-production-problems?utm_campaign=buffer&utm_content=buffer4c334&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com
Researchers from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Harvard Medical School and MIT have designed a smart bandage that could eventually heal chronic wounds or battlefield injuries with every fiber of its being……. http://ein.iconnect007.com/index.php/article/106780/smart-bandage-could-promote-better-faster-healing/106783/?skin=pcb
UCF researcher Yang Yang has come up with a new hybrid nanomaterial that harnesses solar energy and uses it to generate hydrogen from seawater more cheaply and efficiently than current materials. The breakthrough could someday lead to a new source of the clean-burning fuel, ease demand for fossil fuels and boost the economy of Florida, […]
On September 15, 2017, the European Commission (EC) began a public consultation on the revision of the 2011 EC Recommendation on the definition of nanomaterial. The EC intended the definition to achieve consistent application of the term nanomaterial across all legislation…….. https://www.natlawreview.com/article/ec-begins-consultation-revising-recommendation-definition-nanomaterial
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) promulgated on September 21, 2017, significant new use rules (SNUR) for 37 chemical substances that were the subject of premanufacture notices (PMN). Six of the chemical substances, including carbon nanotube (generic) and nanocarbon (generic), are subject to consent orders issued by EPA under Section 4 of the Toxic Substances […]
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has published standard ISO/TS 80004-13:2017, “Nanotechnologies — Vocabulary — Part 13: Graphene and related two-dimensional (2D) materials.” According to ISO, over the last decade, interest has arisen in graphene due to its “many exceptional properties.” …… http://nanotech.lawbc.com/2017/09/iso-publishes-vocabulary-standard-for-graphene-and-related-2d-materials/
NANOTEC organized the “Japan–Thailand Joint Seminar 2017 under JASTIP Program” Collaboration Hubs for International Pro-gram (CHIRP) of Strategic International Collaborative Research Program (SICORP), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and the JASTIP program–WP2 (NSTDA-Kyoto University collaboration) on Tuesday 26 September 2017 at Thailand Science Park.
Strained interfacial phase-change materials (iPCMs) offer a fast and energy-efficient way to write and store computer data. Devices based on this technique could improve on current media by encoding information in three dimensions. Now, researchers in Singapore and China have shown that the speed at which interfacial phase-change proceeds is due to a self-reinforcing avalanche […]
Structural colours are unlike colours produced by chemical dyes and pigments in that they originate from resonant interactions between visible light and engineered nanostructures. These colours do not fade over time – the way ink does. A team of researchers from the US and Belgium has now developed a simple, one-pot reverse emulsion process to […]
Researchers in the US and South Korea have developed a new technique dubbed “colloidal fusion” to construct patchy nanoparticles that can spontaneously self-assemble into a myriad of more complex architectures. The method might be used to fabricate the building blocks for a wide variety of electronics and optoelectronics devices….. http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/70007
The extraordinary electronic, optical and mechanical properties of graphene are well known, but various chemical modifications must be made if the material is to find application in electronic devices…… http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/70008
Cobalt nanoparticles encapsulated in a graphitic shell can be used to kick-start a common chemical reaction called reductive amination, which is routinely used to make a wide variety of pharmaceutically and industrially important molecules. This is the new result from researchers in Germany and Saudi Arabia, who have used their technique to synthesize more than […]
A nanogel containing stem cells could be used to help repair damage to the heart following a heart attack. This is the new result from researchers in China, Australia and the US, who say that their technique stimulates cell regeneration in cardiac tissue without triggering an inflammatory response….. http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/70021
