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…
Nanomaterials
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 have 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…
