Scientists Discover Surprising Applications of Nanodiamonds
A physical chemist and a diverse group of his students are working on applications with nanoscopic diamonds. Diamonds represent so much more to Abraham Wolcott…
Nanocrystals
Shaving “Hairs” off Nanocrystals To Improve Next-Gen Displays and Solar Cells
Scientists shave ‘hairs’ off nanocrystals to improve their electronic properties. Breakthrough by UChicago chemists could yield future devices such as next-gen displays and solar cells….
Molecular Photochemistry: Rapid Spin-Flip in Colloidal Nanocrystals To Generate Molecular Triplets
A research group led by Prof. WU Kaifeng from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) revealed the…
Using “Hairy Nanocrystals” To Decrease Side Effects of Cancer Drugs
Scientists develop plant-based ‘hairy nanocrystals’ to remove excess chemotherapy drugs from the blood. Millions of people around the globe are affected by cancer each year;…
Self-Healing Nanomaterials: Self-Repairing Electronics Are on the Way
Self-healing nanomaterials usable in solar panels and other electronic devices are being explored at the Technion. From the Terminator to Spiderman’s suit, self-repairing robots and…
This Pyramid Scheme Could Be Helpful: Controlled Growth of Tetrahedron-Shaped Nanoparticles
Rice chemists discover mechanism in controlled growth of tetrahedron-shaped nanoparticles. Nature clearly likes symmetry. Look at your own hands, for example. But sometimes nature produces…
The Mystery of the Transforming Flexible Shell: Cryo-Tomography “Opened the Door To Reveal the Secret”
An international research team with participation of the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI has revealed a secret about a marine animal’s shell: The researchers have deciphered…
New Technique for Studying Ultrafast Events in Individual Quantum Dots
Ultrafast Stimulated Emission Microscopy of Single Nanocrystals The ability to investigate the dynamics of single particle at the nano-scale and femtosecond level remained an unfathomed…
Tin Nanocrystals Enable More Power to be Stored in Lithium Ion Batteries
In a newly published study, researchers from the Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry at ETH Zurich and Empa describe a new nanomaterial that enables more power…
Nanocrystalline Alloys that Meet Operational Requirements
In a newly published research paper, MIT scientists describe the method they used to identify and fabricate nanocrystalline alloys that meet operational requirements, even at…
Electrically Conductive and Crack-Free Semiconductor Nanocrystal Films
Using a technique based on electron-beam lithography and a lift-off process, MIT scientists demonstrated the first semiconductor nanocrystal films of nanoscale dimensions that are electrically…
Berkeley Lab Reports Direct Observation of Oriented Attachment in Nanocrystal Growth
A team of scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have reported the first direct observation of “jump-to-contact” between nanoparticles, the critical step in oriented…
Nanoparticle Probes to Uncover the Secrets of Proteins
(Video:Andrew Mueller, Vistamar School, El Segundo, California) Studying and understanding protein behavior is about to take a major step forward. Scientists from the Berkley Lab…
TEM Based Data Collection Technique Maps Nanoparticle Atomic Structures
Viewing nanoparticles in three dimensions may soon be possible in labs all around the world. Instead of relying on traditional nanocrystallography techniques and the powerful…
Scientists Discover Nano-Crystal (Cluster) of PbS
A team of scientists from John Hopkins University and McNeese State University have determined that when 32 units of lead sulfide, PbS, molecules assemble together,…
