New Nanomaterial Produces Clean Energy Hydrogen Fuel From Seawater
The material offers the high performance and stability needed for industrial-scale electrolysis, which could produce a clean energy fuel from seawater. Hydrogen fuel derived from…
Nanomaterials
Pivotal Discovery of Nanomaterial for LEDs: New Low-Cost, Energy-Efficient Light Source
Breakthrough in stabilizing nanocrystals introduces a low-cost, energy-efficient light source for consumer electronic devices, detectors, and medical imaging. Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are an unsung hero…
Realization of Omnipotent Catalysts Expected After Breakthrough Creation of Super Multi-Element Catalyst
Simple creation of a super multi-element catalyst homogeneously containing 14 elements. A research group in Japan has successfully developed a “nanoporous super multi-element catalyst”[1] that…
MXene Nanomaterial Offers Flexible and Stretchable High-Capacity Energy Storage
Some electronics can bend, twist and stretch in wearable displays, biomedical applications, and soft robots. While these devices’ circuits have become increasingly pliable, the batteries…
COVID Aerosol Filtration: Nanofiber Face Masks Improve Efficiency, Need Replacing More Often
Videos capture nanofiber behavior under water aerosol exposure. Since its outbreak, the COVID-19 virus has infected more than 220.9 million people worldwide and has claimed…
New Nanomaterial Resists Projectile Impact Better Than Kevlar
Thinner than a human hair, new material can absorb impacts from microparticles traveling at supersonic speeds. Engineers at Caltech, MIT, and ETH Zürich have developed…
Online “Library of Properties” Helps To Create Safer Nanomaterials Faster
Researchers have developed a ‘library of properties’ to help identify the environmental impact of nanomaterials faster and more cost-effectively. Whilst nanomaterials have benefited a wide…
Innovative Nanomaterials To Decontaminate Water
Important funding for the intersectoral research work of two INRS professors. Patrick Drogui and My Ali El Khakani, professors at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS),…
Tougher Than Kevlar and Steel: Ultralight Material Withstands Supersonic Microparticle Impacts
The new carbon-based material could be a basis for lighter, tougher alternatives to Kevlar and steel. A new study by engineers at MIT, Caltech, and…
New Magnetic Nanomaterial Developed for Counterfeit Money Prevention
An international research team led by NUST MISIS has developed a new iron-cobalt-nickel nanocomposite with tunable magnetic properties. The nanocomposite could be used to protect…
Harvesting Light Like Nature Does: Synthesizing a New Class of Bio-Inspired, Light-Capturing Nanomaterials
Inspired by nature, researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), along with collaborators from Washington State University, created a novel material capable of capturing light…
Faster, More Secure Memory Storage: Physicists Find a Novel Way to Switch Antiferromagnetism On and Off
The findings could lead to faster, more secure memory storage, in the form of antiferromagnetic bits. When you save an image to your smartphone, those…
A COSMIC Approach to Nanoscale Science: World-Leading Resolution of Nanomaterials
Instrument at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source achieves world-leading resolution of nanomaterials. COSMIC, a multipurpose X-ray instrument at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s (Berkeley Lab’s) Advanced…
A Little Soap Simplifies Making 2D Nanoflakes of Hexagonal Boron Nitride
Rice lab’s experiments refine processing of hexagonal boron nitride. Just a little soap helps clean up the challenging process of preparing two-dimensional hexagonal boron nitride…
Chemists Invent Shape-Shifting Nanomaterial With Intriguing Biomedical Potential
Chemists have developed a nanomaterial that they can trigger to shape shift – from flat sheets to tubes and back to sheets again – in…
Speeding Toward Improved Hydrogen Fuel Production With a New Nanomaterial
A new nanomaterial helps obtain hydrogen from a liquid energy carrier, in a key step toward a stable and clean fuel source. Hydrogen is a…
New Nanomaterials Inspired by Insect Wings Destroy Super-Bacteria – By Stretching, Slicing or Tearing Them Apart
Scientists reveal how nanomaterials inspired by insect wings are able to destroy bacteria on contact — by stretching, slicing or tearing them apart. The wings…
New MIT Research Suggests Coal Could Be Used to Make a Variety of Useful Devices
Dirty Carbon Reveals a Sophisticated Side Tar, the everyday material that seals seams in our roofs and driveways, has an unexpected and unappreciated complexity, according…