The lecturer of Fluids Mechanics at the UJI, José Enrique Juliá Bovalar, explains that, after testing the thermal properties of the nanofluid
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin at Madison developed the new technology with support from DARPA's Reliable Neural-Interface Technology (RE-NET) program.
Hersam a professor of materials science engineering chemistry and medicine at Northwestern University has developed a method to separate nanomaterials by size
which NSF funds including support for approximately 30 faculty members/researchers. Hersam also is a recent recipient of one of this year's prestigious Macarthur fellowships a $625000 no-strings-attached award popularly known as a genius grant.
I will use the funds to influence as many students as possible. The carbon nanotubes separation process
#See-through one-atom-thick carbon electrodes powerful tool to study brain disorders Researchers from the Perelman School of medicine and School of engineering at the University of Pennsylvania and The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia have used graphene
"said Dr. Qiang Zhang, associate professor in the Department of Chemical engineering at Tsinghua University. However, most contributions concerning carbon/sulfur composite cathodes possess a relatively low areal loading of sulfur of less than 2. 0 mg cm-2,
Recently, scientists from Tsinghua University have created a freestanding carbon nanotube paper electrode with high sulfur loading for lithium-sulfur batteries.
a student in Tsinghua University, explained, "Such sulfur electrodes with hierarchical CNT scaffolds can accommodate over 5 to 10 times the sulfur species compared with conventional electrodes on metal foil current collectors
"says co-author Jia-Qi Huang of Tsinghua University.""The areal capacity can be increased further to 15.1 mah cm-2 by stacking three CNT-S paper electrodes, with an areal sulfur loading of 17.3 mg cm-2 as the cathode in a Li
Now scientists from UCLA and Tohoku University have discovered a new self-assembly method for producing defect-free graphene nanoribbons with periodic zigzag-edge regions.
Paul Weiss distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry and a member of UCLA's California Nanosystems Institute developed the method for producing the nanoribbons with Patrick Han and Taro Hitosugi professors at the Advanced Institute
of Materials Research at Tohoku University in Sendai Japan of which Weiss is also a member.
To overcome this challenge the researchers from the Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (icems) at Kyoto University borrowed a principle from polymer chemistry
"said Ragan, associate professor of chemical engineering & materials science and principal investigator on the project. This grant highlights the strength of our faculty in both nanosciences
and advanced manufacturing,"said Gregory Washington, dean of The Henry Samueli School of engineering.""The Samueli School is poised to move forward as a force in this area
#Beyond LEDS: Brighter new energy saving flat panel lights based on carbon nanotubes Even as the 2014 Nobel prize in Physics has enshrined light emitting diodes (LEDS) as the single most significant and disruptive energy-efficient lighting solution of today scientists
Scientists from Tohoku University in Japan have developed a new type of energy-efficient flat light source based on carbon nanotubes with very low power consumption of around 0. 1 Watt for every hour's operation
which holds excellent potential for a lighting device with low power consumption said Norihiro Shimoi the lead researcher and an associate professor of environmental studies at the Tohoku University.
For quantum computing to become a reality we need to operate the bits with very low error rates says Scientia Professor Andrew Dzurak who is Director of the Australian National Fabrication Facility at UNSW where the devices were made.
of which shows this super accuracy adds Associate professor Andrea Morello from UNSW's School of Electrical engineering and Telecommunications.
The purified silicon was provided through collaboration with Professor Kohei Itoh from Keio University in Japan.
and designed said Peng Yin senior author of the paper Wyss core faculty member and Assistant professor of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical school.
Over the years scientists have been very successful at making complex 3d shapes from DNA using diverse strategies said Wei Sun a postdoctoral scholar in the Wyss'Molecular Systems Lab
#Nanoparticle research could enhance drug delivery through skin Scientists at the University of Southampton have identified key characteristics that enhance a nanoparticle's ability to penetrate skin in a milestone study which could have major implications for the delivery of drugs.
Now a multidisciplinary team from the University has explored changes in the surface charge shape and functionality (controlled through surrounding molecules) of gold nanoparticles to see how these factors affect skin penetration.
The research which has been published in the journal Small drew on the medical expertise of Dr Neil Smyth and Dr Michael Ardern-Jones as well as contributions from physicist Professor Otto Muskens.
Phd student Rute Fernandes conducted the experimental work. Our interest is focused now on incorporating these findings into the design of new nanotechnological drugs for transdermal therapy says Dr Kanaras.
Now researchers from the University of Waterloo have developed a topical solution containing nanoparticles that will combat dry eye syndrome with only one application a week.
Liu's research article co-authored by eight others including Professors Frank Gu and Lyndon Jones from Waterloo recently appeared in Nano Research the leading publication on nanotechnology and nanoscience e
#'Endless possibilities'for bionanotechnology Scientists from the University of Leeds have taken a crucial step forward in bionanotechnology,
"said Professor Steve Evans, from the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leeds and a co-author of the paper.
In the study, the researchers used something called Atomic force microscopy (AFM), which is an imaging process that has a resolution down to only a fraction of a nanometer
'and was used the technique by Professor Evans and his team in this research. The ability to controllably'write
a Phd student from the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leeds and the lead author of the research paper.
"explained Professor Evans. Aside from biological applications, this area of research could revolutionise renewable energy production. Working in collaboration with researchers at the University of Sheffield,
Professor Evans and his team have all of the membrane proteins required to construct a fully working mimic of the way plants capture sunlight.
Eventually the researchers will be able to arbitrarily swap out the biological units and replace them with synthetic components to create a new generation of solar cells.
Professor Evans concludes:""This is part of the emerging field of synthetic biology, whereby engineering principles are being applied to biological parts
and Engineering and colleagues at the National University of Singapore have created nanoparticles with two distinct anticancer functions
At the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) tiny particles have been coupled to a glass fibre. The particles emit light into the fibre in such a way that it does not travel in both directions,
"says Professor Arno Rauschenbeutel (TU Wien). His team has succeeded now in breaking this symmetry of emission using gold nanoparticles coupled to ultra-thin glass fibres.
This is an exciting breakthrough in nanomedicine said IBN Executive director Professor Jackie Y. Ying. A key challenge in chemotherapy is ensuring that the drugs are delivered only to the tumor
At the same time the drug accumulation in the other organs was lowered substantially by 70%in the liver and kidney and by 40%in the lungs.
In the latest issue of the IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical systems Velsquez-Garca his graduate students Eric Heubel and Philip Ponce de Leon and Frances Hill a postdoc in his group describe a new prototype
which requires a high level of training to operate and everything is defined in planes. In many applications you want the three-dimensionality:
and not a beam of droplets says Herbert Shea an associate professor in the Microsystems for Space technologies Laboratory at the cole Polytechnique Fdrale de Lausanne.
#Creating nanostructures using simple stamps Nanostructures of virtually any possible shape can now be made using a combination of techniques developed by the MESA+Institute for Nanotechnology of the University of Twente.
Research has been done within the Inorganic Materials science group part of the MESA+Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Twente.
and Technology Graduate University is trying to develop new particles with unprecedented properties that still meet these requirements.
#New nanomaterial introduced into electrical machines Lappeenranta University of Technology in Finland has constructed the world's first prototype electrical motor using carbon nanotube yarn in the motor windings.
The motors could also be operated in significantly higher temperatures than the present ones says Professor Juha Pyrh nen who has led the design of the prototype at LUT.
Consequently finding a more efficient material to replace the copper conductors would lead to major changes in the industry tells Professor Pyrh nen.
scaling up the production capacity together with improving the yarn performance will facilitate major steps in the future believes Business Development Manager Dr. Marcin Otto from Teijin Aramid agreeing with Professor Pyrhnen.
Currently plasmonic absorbers used in biosensors have a resonant bandwidth of 50 nanometers said Koray Aydin assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Northwestern University's Mccormick School of engineering and Applied science.
The wetland mesocosms we used are a much closer approximation of the natural processes constantly churning in the environment said Lee Ferguson associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Duke.
or other animals drinking water after a potential spill or other contamination event the accumulation in sediment does pose concerns for both sediment-dwelling organisms
Coupled with their quick accumulation in sediment this may allow problematic chemicals to linger instead of degrading.
A study by researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has shown that standard thermal models will lead to the wrong answer in a three-dimensional heat-transfer problem
a professor of materials science and engineering at Illinois."Our current understanding of nanoscale thermal transport isn't nuanced enough to quantitatively predict
3-D nanomagnetic logic Electrical engineers at the Technical University Munich (TUM) have demonstrated a new kind of building block for digital integrated circuits.
As the main enabling technology of the semiconductor industry CMOS fabrication of silicon chips approaches fundamental limits, the TUM researchers and collaborators at the University of Notre dame are exploring"magnetic computing"as an alternative.
#Blades of grass inspire advance in organic solar cells Using a biomimicking analog of one of nature's most efficient light-harvesting structures blades of grass an international research team led by Alejandro Briseno of the University of Massachusetts Amherst
Briseno with colleagues and graduate students at UMASS Amherst and others at Stanford university and Dresden University of Technology Germany report in the current issue of Nano Letters that by using single-crystalline organic nanopillars
when an undergraduate chose the wrong substrate to grow crystals on. For over a week the student was growing vertical crystals
and we didn't even realize until we imaged the surface of the substrate with a scanning electron microscope.
Now Tel aviv University researchers are literally setting a new gold standard in cardiac tissue engineering. Dr. Tal Dvir and his graduate student Michal Shevach of TAU's Department of Biotechnology, Department of Materials science and engineering,
and Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, have been developing sophisticated micro -and nanotechnological toolsanging in size from one millionth to one billionth of a metero develop functional substitutes for damaged heart tissues.
and professor at Northern Illinois University but what was missing was a partnership between people that have the know-how at a lab a university and a company.
Physicists at Umeå University have discovered that one can reduce the number of carbon nanotubes in the device by more than 100 times
Earlier this year, Dr. David Barbero and his research team at Umeå University, demonstrated for the first time that
In this new study, Dr. Barbero and his team at Umeå University show that this threshold can be reduced by more than 100 times in a semiconducting polymer
#Research mimics brain cells to boost memory power RMIT University researchers have brought ultra-fast, nanoscale data storage within striking reach,
The creation of this material is described in a paper published in the journal Advanced Materials co-authored by MIT postdoc Jeffrey Chou professors Marin Soljacic Nicholas Fang Evelyn Wang and Sang-Gook
and materials science to advance solar energy harvesting says Paul Braun a professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who was involved not in this research.
Researchers from the University of Surrey and AMBER the materials science centre based at Trinity college Dublin have demonstrated now how graphene-treated nanowires can be used to produce flexible touchscreens at a fraction of the current cost.
Dr Alan Dalton from the University of Surrey said The growing market in devices such as wearable technology
Lead author Dr Izabela Jurewicz from the University of Surrey commented Our work has cut the amount of expensive nanowires required to build such touchscreens by more than fifty times as well as simplifying the production process.
Co-author Professor Jonathan Coleman AMBER added This is a real alternative to ITO displays and could replace existing touchscreen technologies in electronic devices.
and colleagues from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science the University of Tokyo and Hiroshima University have discovered that ultrathin films of a semiconducting material have properties that form the basis for a new kind of low-power electronics
University of Technology. Metallic substances conduct electrical current easily whereas insulating (nonmetallic) materials conduct no current at all.
As Tsuyoshi Okuno from the University of Electro-Communications and his colleagues point out in a recent report
and his colleagues at the University of Electro-Communications (UEC. This density was one of the critical advances for achieving high efficiency quantum dot based photovoltaic devices says Yamaguchi.
and physicists of Radboud University managed to open and close nanovesicles using a magnet. This process is repeatable
On 24 september chemists and physicists from Radboud University will publish results from a seminal intermediate step in Nature Communications:
In the journal APL Materials from AIP Publishing a team of Seoul National University (SNU) researchers led by Professor Gyu-Chul Yi describes their work growing Gan micro-rods
and were reliable#there was no significant degradation in optical performance after 1000 bending cycles noted Kunook Chung the article's lead author and a graduate student in SNU's Physics department.
#Experts create unique nanoparticles for aerospace industry A development of three universities enables improved thermal and electronic properties on devices with nickel-titanium alloys.
doctor for the Autonomous University of Nuevo León (UANL), Mexico. Federal Universities of Pernambuco and Campina Grande, both in Brazil, were responsible for obtaining physical media for the shape memory titanium-nickel metal alloy (with the ability to return to its original state after being deformed.
Meanwhile, the team at the UANL manufactured nanoparticles used in the sensors, and after a series of tests confirmed the effectiveness of the titanium-nickel as an electrical and thermal conductor.
so the Brazilian universities obtained them by vacuum melting the titanium to make it react with oxygen.
#Scientists grow a new challenger to graphene A team of researchers from the University of Southampton's Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) has developed a new way to fabricate a potential challenger to graphene.
They are currently working with several UK companies and universities as well as leading international centres at MIT and Nanyang Technological University (Singapore.
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#Engineers show light can play seesaw at the nanoscale University of Minnesota electrical engineering researchers have developed a unique nanoscale device that for the first time demonstrates mechanical transportation of light.
The research paper by University of Minnesota electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Mo Li and his graduate student Huan Li has been published online
Professor Li and his research team also used the seesaw to experimentally demonstrate for the first time the mechanical control of transporting light.
To develop a viable bionsensor the researchers from the University of Swansea had to create patterned graphene devices using a large substrate area
and supercapacitors An official of a materials technology and manufacturing startup based on a Purdue University innovation says his company is addressing the challenge of scaling graphene production for commercial applications.
He also is the James G. Dwyer Professor of Mechanical engineering at Purdue. The patented technology has been licensed exclusively to Bluevine Graphene Industries through the Purdue Office of Technology Commercialization.
a laboratory usually devoted to studying fuel cellshe kind that run on methane or hydrogened by Shriram Ramanathan, Associate professor of Materials science at the Harvard School of engineering and Applied sciences (SEAS.
and joined the faculty of Rensselaer Polytechnic institute this fall.""Just by applying an electric field, you're dynamically controlling how light interacts with this material."
A team of researchers from five Japanese and Taiwanese universities has identified a potential candidate for use in small-scale electronics:
and metal surfaces we found that the zigzag-shaped picene basically just sits on the silver said University of Tokyo researcher Yukio Hasegawa.
but it's one that until this study was understood not adequately said William Chueh of SIMES an assistant professor at Stanford's Department of Materials science and engineering and senior author of the study.
and discharging said Stanford graduate student Yiyang Li lead author of the report. This study is the first to do that comprehensively under many charging
A team from Tsinghua University (China) led by Prof. Qiang Zhang and Fei Wei have fabricated now successfully sandwich-like N-ACNT/G hybrids via a two-step catalytic growth on bifunctional natural materials.
"says Greer, a professor of materials science and mechanics in the Division of Engineering and Applied science at Caltech."
In the latest work, Greer and her students used the technique to produce what they call three-dimensional nanolattices that are formed by a repeating nanoscale pattern.
Saraf, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering said he envisions a stethoscope-like device that a doctor would press across a patient's chest to image the buried palpable structure.
"said Seong Jin Koh, an associate professor at UT Arlington in the Materials science & Engineering Department,
Khosrow Behbehani, dean of the UT Arlington College of Engineering, said this research is representative of the University's role in fostering innovations that benefit the society,
Taro Hitosugi at the Advanced Institute of Materials Research (AIMR), Tohoku University discovered a new bottom-up fabrication method that produces defect-free graphene nanoribbons (GNRS) with periodic zigzag-edge regions.
#Engineers advance understanding of graphene's friction properties (Phys. org) An interdisciplinary team of engineers from the University of Pennsylvania has made a discovery regarding the surface properties of graphene the Nobel-prize winning material that consists of an atomically thin sheet
The research was led by postdoctoral researcher Qunyang Li graduate student Xin-Zhou Liu and Robert Carpick professor and chair of the Department of Mechanical engineering and Applied Mechanics in Penn's School of engineering and Applied science.
They collaborated with Vivek Shenoy a professor in the Department of Materials science and engineering. The Penn contingent also worked with researchers from the Naval Research Laboratory and Brown University.
Besides its applications in circuitry and sensors graphene is of interest as a super-strong coating.
and collaborators at Rensselaer Polytechnic institute The latter has a direct impact on the power yield of solar cells.
"said Thomas E. Mallouk, Evan Pugh Professor of Chemistry, Physics, and Biochemistry and Molecular biology at Penn State.
In a paper first published online on Sept. 9 in the journal Nature Chemistry, Mallouk and colleagues at Penn State and the Research center for Exotic Nanocarbons at Shinshu University, Japan, describe a method called intercalation,
#Ultra-thin high-speed detector captures unprecedented range of light waves New research at the University of Maryland could lead to a generation of light detectors that can see below the surface of bodies walls and other objects.
Lead author Xinghan Cai a University of Maryland physics graduate student said a detector like the researchers'prototype could find applications in emerging terahertz fields such as mobile communications medical imaging chemical sensing
The new room temperature detector developed by the University of Maryland team and colleagues at the U s. Naval Research Lab and Monash University Australia gets around these problems by using graphene a single layer of interconnected carbon atoms.
By utilizing the special properties of graphene the research team has been able to increase the speed
and more than a million times faster says Michael Fuhrer professor of physics at the University of Maryland and Monash University Australia.
The concept behind the detector is simple says University of Maryland Physics Professor Dennis Drew.
"said Professor Andrea Ferrari, Director of the Cambridge Graphene Centre.""This is a significant step forward to enable fully wearable and flexible devices.
and bioengineering research said Samir Mitragotri co-author and professor of chemical engineering and director of the Center for Bioengineering at UCSB.
The key according to UCSB professor of electrical and computer engineering Kaustav Banerjee who led this research is Mos2's band gap the characteristic of a material that determines its electrical conductivity.
whose surface potential (or conductivity) can be modulated by the interaction (known as conjugation) between the receptor and target molecules that results in net accumulation of charges over the gate region.
Additionally according to Deblina Sarkar a Phd student in Banerjee's lab and the lead author of the article two-dimensional Mos2 is relatively simple to manufacture.
This demonstration is said quite remarkable Andras Kis professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland and a leading scientist in the field of 2d materials and devices.
Professor Banerjee and his team have identified a breakthrough application of these nanomaterials and provided new impetus for the development of low-power
Reporting today in The Optical Society's (OSA) high-impact journal Optica optical and material scientists at the University of Rochester
and atomically thin material that can be exploited for nanophotonic integrated circuits said Nick Vamivakas assistant professor of quantum optics and quantum physics at the University of Rochester and senior author of the paper.
Typically about a third of the remaining energy would be lost for every few microns (millionths of a meter) the plasmons traveled along the wire explained Kenneth Goodfellow a graduate student at Rochester's Institute of Optics
#Researcher's nanoparticle key to new malaria vaccine A self-assembling nanoparticle designed by a UCONN professor is the key component of a potent new malaria vaccine that is showing promise in early tests.
But a novel protein nanoparticle developed by Peter Burkhard, a professor in the Department of Molecular & Cell biology, in collaboration with David Lanar
Innovative work such as what's being done at the University of Connecticut puts us closer than we've ever been to ending one of the world's oldest
Professor Mazhar Khan from UCONN's Department of Pathobiology is collaborating with Burkhard on the animal flu vaccine e
Along with colleagues at the University of Manchester researchers captured the world's first real-time images and simultaneous chemical analysis of nanostructures while underwater or in solution.
Argonne scientist Dean Miller is already looking ahead to incorporate this capability into the next challenge:
The study Real-time imaging and local elemental analysis of nanostructures in liquids was published in the journal Chemical Communications with researchers from the University of Manchester and BP.
It is said potentially limitless Professor Dan Li of Monash University's Department of Materials Engineering.
Professor Li has invented a cost-effective and scalable way to split graphite into microscopic graphene sheets and dissolve them in water.
Professor Li's team has also been able to give graphene a more functional 3-D form by engineering it into an elastic graphene foam that retains its extraordinary qualities.
Professor Li likened his developments to having invented bricks and said it was time to bring in architects
The University of Washington researchers have demonstrated that two of these single-layer semiconductor materials can be connected in an atomically seamless fashion known as a heterojunction.
"said senior author Xiaodong Xu, a UW assistant professor of materials science and engineering and of physics.""Our experimental demonstration of such junctions between two-dimensional materials should enable new kinds of transistors, LEDS, nanolasers,
Collaborators from the electron microscopy center at the University of Warwick in England found that all the atoms in both materials formed a single honeycomb lattice structure, without any distortions or discontinuities.
University of Warwick The researchers created the junctions in a small furnace at the UW.
"said Sanfeng Wu, a UW doctoral student in physics and one of the lead authors.""Because the materials have different properties,
"said senior author David Cobden, a UW professor of physics.""In the future, combinations of two-dimensional materials may be integrated together in this way to form all kinds of interesting electronic structures such as in-plane quantum wells and quantum wires, superlattices, fully functioning transistors,
and the University of California (UC) Berkeley's Physics department.""Having quantitatively determined charge transfer time to be less than 50 femtoseconds,
Cephalopods like octopus and squid are masters of camouflage but they are also color-blind. Halas said the squid skin research team which includes marine biologists Roger Hanlon of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole Mass
. and Thomas Cronin of the University of Maryland Baltimore County suspect that cephalopods may detect color directly through their skin.
Based on that hypothesis LANP graduate student Bob Zheng the lead author of the new Advanced Materials study set out to design a photonic system that could detect colored light.
The research groups of Professor Junk-Ki Park and Professor Hee-Tak Kim from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and Professor Yong-Min Lee
's research group from Hanbat National University, all in Daejeon, South korea, have published their paper on the new fabrication method in a recent issue of Nano Letters.
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