The conversion of methanol (CH4O) to formaldehyde (CH2O or HCHO) is the synthesis reaction which is the starting point for many everyday plastics. Interestingly employing catalysts made from continued...
Scientists from The University of Manchester (UoM) and National University of Singapore - have demonstrated novel research from combining the 'wonder material' - Graphene - with another one-atom continued...
Hanyang University, South Korea - in collaboration with Stanford University, USA - have succeeded in developing peel-and-stick thin film solar cells (TFSCs). Interestingly the Silicon (Si) continued...
Imagine in the future when you can plug in your smart phone for a mere 30 seconds, and then be able to continue for the rest of your day with a fully charged phone. Thereafter imagine plugging continued...
As an emerging market - Gold nanoparticles (AuNP) are increasingly the first choice for enabling early disease detection (as nano-sensors for medical diagnostics). Primarily due to AuNPs continued...
Science Daily 19/03/2013 - Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland - scientists have combined two materials - Graphene and Molybdenite - with advantageous electronic continued...
28/02/2013 - Researchers at HGST (formerly known as Hitachi Global Storage Technologies or Hitachi GST), a Western Digital company (NASDAQ: WDC)) - announces a laboratory advancement demonstrating continued...
In Pune, India - a breakthrough discovery has been made by scientists at the Agharkar Research Institute (ARI), whereby it has been shown how Zinc Oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles can be employed to continued...
As stated by A*STAR researchers - as computer manufacturers cram move processing power into tiny chips - a growing problem may prevail. The so called 'connections' between electronic components continued...
Recent research from IBM's Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, where some of the world's best physicists, chemists and nano-engineers reside are endeavoring to create the first continued...
An innovative team of researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated that by bringing Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) closer to the dots and thereafter continued...
A highly flexible approach has been designed for photonic nano-sensors and is now available, which could potentially overcome practicality and reliability issues. As has been previously stated continued...
It is claimed that the illuminating of Silver nanoparticles (AgNP) within a narrow-bandwidth light at or nearby the Near Infrared (NIR) region will allow them to grow uniformly, and, therefore, continued...
As explained in the news article entitled "IBM nano-technique - Scientists peer within Carbon nanotubes to see atomic structure in 3-D" - the Moore's Law is well-known for doubling of a computer continued...
Silica microwires are tiny and relatively underused cousin of optical fibers. It is claimed if the wires can be precisely manufactured, then they could enable applications and technology not continued...
As stated in the news article entitled "IBM nano-technique - Scientists peer within Carbon nanotubes to see atomic structure in 3-D" - the heart of future computing will be the ease of transferring continued...
Research published by nano-technologists in Nature Materials working between colleagues at The University of Manchester (UoM) and Aix-Marseille University, France, have claimed to have created a continued...
A new diagnostics protocol developed at MIT and Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) claims it could help doctors more accurately diagnosis between cancerous and non-cancerous tumors. The new continued...
A*STAR Data Storage Institute - has as many have previously claimed that nano-scale engineering of materials, which arise in two different guises could lead to faster, smaller and more stable continued...
Similar to a news article entitled "Innovative nano-sensors: Detection of trace containments in water" - on 18/12/2012 a northern Iranian university unveiled (with Iranian President Dr Mahmoud continued...
Research published by teams at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Nature Biotechnology 16/12/2012 - have claimed to have found means to continued...
IBM announced on Monday 10/12/2012 a major advancement in optical communications by claiming to verify a manufacturing environment in the use of light instead of electrical signals to transmit continued...
Surface plasmon electronic tongues are designed to analyse liquids in the same manner as an electronic nose, and so capable of analysing gasses. Such innovative devices are increasingly finding continued...
Starfruit shaped Gold (Au) nanorods synthesised at Rice University's BioScience Research Collaborative could potentially reveal nano-applications that rely on SERS. The Rice researchers found continued...
Low-level concentration of organic contaminants in air and drinking water is a key sensor industry. Recent research published at University of Notre Dame by the laboratory of Professors continued...
Since its first observance Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) has shown potential for detection of cancerous tumors, food pathogens and bio-security threats. However, with having to continued...
Research just published in Canada by researchers at the University of Manitoba - International Journal of Nanotechnology - have shown that Siliver nanoparticles (AgNP) when soaked or continued...
New York Stock Exchange: International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE: IBM) researchers have demonstrated a new approach to Carbon nanotube (CNT) technology, which could open-up the path continued...
Researchers at Rice University, USA, have potentially hit upon a method to produce almost transparent films of electrically conductive carbon nanotubes (CNT) - a milestone R&D step sought continued...
Evidence has been provided by researchers from The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore - Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) of a nano-scale colour continued...
It was bound to happen some time soon - British billionaire tycoon Sir Richard Branson on 01/11/2012 launched a new joint $200 million investment fund to back nanotechnology green growth and continued...
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