Technology Update
When oil enters into or gets mixed with water, conventional approaches of cleaning the water and removing the oil can be challenging, expensive and environmentally hazardous. A team of Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin believe they have developed a better technique. Details of their research were […]
Umbrella sales in the UAE may soon see a surge in pricing. Researchers at the Masdar Institute have filed for a provisional patent with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for their discovery – and innovative cloud seeding material that moves them closer to their goal of producing rain on demand. It appears to […]
The renowned camera maker, RED, have unveiled their brand new smartphone, which promises to be the ‘the world’s first holographic media machine… no glasses needed.’ The new phone, named the Hydrogen One, features “nanotechnology that seamlessly switches between traditional 2D content, holographic multi-view content, 3D content and interactive games.”…. https://nano-magazine.com/news/2017/7/7/new-smartphone-with-nanotechnology-holographic-display-revealed
Sporting manufacturers are always looking to create the most innovative equipment to improve performance for athletes using the latest technologies. Nanotechnology has been a component of many sporting brands and companies’ products for over a decade now. So we decided to have a look a some of the top sports where nanotechnology is being used […]
The Graphene Flagship and the European Space Agency are teaming up on two new experiments to test out graphene’s potential for use in space applications……. https://nano-magazine.com/news/2017/7/10/esa-and-graphene-flagship-partner-for-space-experiments
Electrodeposition can be used to construct novel functional nanowire structures hitherto impossible. This is the new finding from researchers at Harvard University in the US who have deposited conformal layers of various materials onto high-aspect-ratio silicon and micro- and nanowire arrays of different diameters, pitch, aspect ratios, shapes, resistivity and orientation. The structures produced could […]
2D transition metal dichalcogenides are promising for electronic and optical devices thanks to their unique structural, electrical and mechanical properties that include a wide range of direct bandgaps, valley-polarized carriers, strong spin-orbit coupling and superconductivity. Due to their spin-polarized valence bands and predicted spin splitting at conduction band edges, the lowest-lying excitons (bound electron-hole pairs) […]
Oxide materials such as pyrochlores are used in nuclear waste immobilization matrices and fuel cells. A team of researchers at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) and the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), together with colleagues in Australia and Japan, have now studied the atomic composition of the text-book pyrochlore La2Zr2O7 […]
The largest fully programmable optical processor to date has been unveiled by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Elenion Technologies. The device, which is made up of a mesh of 88 beam splitters that can be programmed on microsecond timescales, could be used to study a large range of quantum transport regimes in […]
Carbon nanotubes exhibit interesting characteristics rendering them particularly suited to the construction of special hybrid devices – consisting of biological issue and synthetic material – planned to re-establish connections between nerve cells, for instance at spinal level, lost on account of lesions or trauma. This is the result of a piece of research published on […]
Researchers from ITMO University have built a setup for recording holograms of tiny objects like living cells with a femtosecond speed. The new method allows one to reconstruct phase topography of a studied sample according to deformations that emerge in a laser pulse when it passes through the specimen. In comparison to electron microscopes, the […]
Cornell materials scientists and bioelectrochemical engineers may have created an innovative, cost-competitive electrode material for cleaning pollutants in wastewater….. https://nano-magazine.com/news/2017/6/27/bacteria-coated-nanofiber-electrodes-digest-pollutants
Extremely thin printable solar panels could power your phone and are among a range of new ways nanotechnology is opening the door to a clean energy and waste-free future….. https://nano-magazine.com/news/2017/6/28/printed-solar-cells-thinner-than-your-hair-could-power-your-phone
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a breakthrough in electrolyte chemistry that enables lithium batteries to run at temperatures as low as -60 degrees Celsius with excellent performance — in comparison, today’s lithium-ion batteries stop working at -20 degrees Celsius. The new electrolytes also enable electrochemical capacitors to run as low […]
Ordinarily, light particles — photons — don’t interact. If two photons collide in a vacuum, they simply pass through each other….. https://nano-magazine.com/news/2017/6/19/toward-optical-quantum-computing
An elegantly simple experiment with floating particles self-assembling in response to sound waves has provided a new framework for studying how seemingly lifelike behaviors emerge in response to external forces….. https://nano-magazine.com/news/2017/6/20/sound-waves-direct-particles-to-self-assemble-self-heal
In the last few years, the world has witnessed huge political upheaval such as Donald Trump’s election, Britain’s exit from the EU, the recent French election and this month’s snap election results in the UK. Meanwhile, four decades since its inception, nanotechnology continues to effect an increasingly diverse range of fields and promises to revolutionize […]
Bulk gold is chemically inert, but when the size of gold particles is reduced to nanometre or sub-nanometre dimensions they begin to have very different physical and chemical properties. A team of researchers at the National University of Singapore has now found that gold nanoparticles smaller than around 2 nm are antimicrobial and can kill […]
Carbon nanotubes zapped with microwaves can be used to locally heat up 3D-printed thermoplastic parts. This new result, from researchers at Texas A&M University, addresses one of the biggest challenges in 3D printing today and allows for strong welds in the build direction….. http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/69097
Scientists in the US have devised a microfabrication method that uses capillary channels in a photoresist to position nanorods of the tobacco mosaic virus (TMV). The team used the quick and simple new approach to create a supercapacitor with nanostructured electrodes, and the method can be applied to construct many other microdevices requiring high surface […]
An entirely artificial nano-biocatalyst for converting sunlight into hydrogen that works at ambient temperature in water at neutral pH has been developed by researchers at the Argonne National Laboratory in the US. The catalyst, which consists of a synthetic transmembrane proton pump and titanium-dioxide semiconductor nanoparticles, produces around 240 μmol and 17.74 mmmol of hydrogen […]
