Hybrid Crystalline/Amorphous Material Capable of Indenting Diamonds
An international team of scientists created the world’s first hybrid crystalline/amorphous material that is hard enough to indent diamonds. Using a diamond anvil cell, the…
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Nanotechnology Used to Create “Magnetic Domain-Wall Ratchet” Memory
A newly published study details how scientists at the Eindhoven University of Technology developed “magnetic domain-wall ratchet” memory, computer memory that is built up from…
Nanomaterials Actively Self-Regulate in Response to Environmental Change
A newly published study from a team of engineers describes a strategy for building self-thermoregulating nanomaterials called SMARTS, which may be able to be tailored…
Nano-Sandwich Design Results in Slimmer Solar Cells With Decreased Costs
Using a “nanoscale sandwich” design with an ultra-thin active layer, scientists at NC State University have developed a technique to create slimmer thin-film solar cells…
SLIPS Prevents Ice From Sticking on Metal Surfaces
A team of material science engineers from Harvard developed SLIPS (Slippery Liquid Infused Porous Surfaces), a technology that can prevent ice sheets from developing on…
Graphene Hot Electron Bolometer May Outperform Existing Technologies
By using bilayer graphene, researchers at the University of Maryland developed a new type of hot electron bolometer, which is expected to be sensitive to…
Nanoscale Molecular Cages May Aid in Drug and Vaccine Delivery
Biochemists at UCLA used computer models to identify proteins that could be combined to form tiny molecular cages that are hundreds of times smaller than…
Ion bombardment Model Could Lead to New Technologies
A study from Brown University gives new insight into the process of ion bombardment of metal surfaces and could open the door to new technologies,…
Balancing Between Life and Research
Focusing on balance between her family, religion, and work with carbon nanomaterials, Jing Kong has found a home at MIT and has pioneered a new…
Pentamode Metamaterial Opens New Possibilities in Transformation Acoustics
A team of scientists has created new material class through the manufacturing of a stable crystalline metafluid. The pentamode metamaterial is extremely light and displays…
Automated System Has Promising Uses in Battery and Fuel Cell Production
Newly published research from Yale University engineers describes a technique that may be influential in developing and understanding new methods for rapidly creating battery electrodes…
Exploring Graphene-Based THz Devices
Future communication devices may get a big boost in efficiency from terahertz waves and graphene. In a newly published study, scientists at the University of…
Graphene Center Laboratory is State of the Art “Nano-Factory”
Graphene is an amazing material offering high strength, transparency, and flexibility with excellent electrical and thermal conductivity, all from a single layer of carbon atoms….
Nanosponges May Help With Environmental Cleanup
Newly discovered nanotubes may have a big impact environmental cleanup. By adding boron to carbon during the nanotube creating process, researchers found that the resulting…
Gold Nanorods Shaped as Starfruit Deliver Impressive Results
Starfruit is lending its shape to newly synthesized gold nanorods, whose particles have been found to return signals 25 times stronger than similar nanorods with…
Analyzing the Environmental Costs and Impacts of Technology
With every new technology, there are costs and environmental impacts to consider, and that’s exactly what MIT’s Environmentally Benign Manufacturing research group does. By routinely…
Nanoparticles in 3-D Atomic-Scale Resolution
Report of a new method for directly measuring the atomic structure of nanomaterials was published today in the journal Nature. By taking measurements at 69…
