A team of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania; University of California Berkeley; and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has made inroads in solving one such hurdle.
By demonstrating a new way to change the amount of electrons that reside in a given region within a piece of graphene they have a proof-of-principle in making the fundamental building blocks of semiconductor devices using the 2-D material.
Moreover their method enables this value to be tuned through the application of an electric field meaning graphene circuit elements made in this way could one day be rewired dynamically without physically altering the device.
Now a team of physicists at the University of California Riverside has found an ingenious way to induce magnetism in graphene while also preserving graphene's electronic properties.
University at Buffalo researchers and their colleagues have designed a nanoparticle that can be detected by six medical imaging techniques:
as well as the University of Wisconsin and POSTECH in South korea. The researchers designed the nanoparticles from two components:
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#High-resolution patterns of quantum dots with e-jet printing A team of 17 materials science and engineering researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana#Champaign and Erciyes University in Turkey have authored High-resolution Patterns of Quantum dots
and the research interests of John Rogers co-author of the paper and a materials scientist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
It was research conducted by Yingnan Zhao of the University of Twente's MESA+Institute for Nanotechnology that led to this discovery.
The technology, developed collaboratively by researchers from Cornell University and Rensselaer Polytechnic institute, uses an electrochemical process called anodization to create nanoscale pores that change the electrical charge and surface energy of a metal surface,
The collaborating group from Rensselaer Polytechnic institute is led by Diana Borca-Tasciuc, associate professor of mechanical, aerospace and nuclear engineering.
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#Carbon nanotube finding could lead to flexible electronics with longer battery life University of Wisconsin-Madison materials engineers have made a significant leap toward creating higher-performance electronics with improved battery lifend the ability
#A new step towards using graphene in electronic applications A team of the University of Berkeley
In 2013 a team of scientists from the University of Berkeley and the Centre for Materials Physics (CFM) a mixed CSIC (Spanish National Research Council) and UPV/EHU (University of the Basque Country
Professor Zhiyong Fan and his group from Hong kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) reported novel nanobowl optical concentrator fabricated on low-cost aluminum foil
#Carbon nanoballs can greatly contribute to sustainable energy supply Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have discovered that the insulation plastic used in high-voltage cables can withstand a 26 per cent higher voltage
"Together with colleagues from Chalmers University of Technology and the company Borealis in Sweden, he has found a powerful method for reducing energy losses in alternating current cables.
#'Trojan horse'proteins are step forward for nanoparticle-based anticancer and anti-dementia therapeutic approaches Scientists at Brunel University London have found a way of targeting hard-to-reach cancers
Dr Uday Kishore from Brunel University London's College of Health and Life sciences said: By using a protein recognised by the immune system to effectively disguise carbon nanoparticles we will be able to deploy these tiny particles to target hard-to-reach areas without damaging side effects to the patient.
Researchers at the University of Basel and The swiss Tropical and Public health Institute have developed now so-called nanomimics of host cell membranes that trick the parasites.
Cornelia Palivan (both at the University of Basel) and Prof. Hans-Peter Beck (Swiss TPH) have designed successfully and tested host cell nanomimics.
All conclusions made based on the X-ray studies were confirmed further using atomic-resolution microscopy in the group of Professor Robert Klie of the University of Illinois at Chicago.
The research was funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the University of Illinois at Chicago Research Resources Center.
Physicists from Leibniz University Hannover and from the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) have taken now a decisive step in this direction.
As an electron source the physicists from Leibniz University Hannover and from PTB used so-called semiconductor single-electron pumps.
The theoretical maximum storage capacity of graphite is limited very at 372 milliamp hours per gram hindering significant advances in battery technology said Vilas Pol an associate professor of chemical engineering at Purdue University.
It will certainly become fully affordable in the perspective of broad scale application mentioned by collaborators Vadim G. Kessler and Gulaim A. Seisenbaeva from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences researchers Gulaim A. Seisenbaeva Geoffrey Daniel and Vadim G. Kessler;
Last year materials scientist Chunmei Ban and her colleagues at the National Renewable energy Laboratory in Golden Colorado and the University of Colorado Boulder found that they could cover silicon nanoparticles with a rubberlike coating made from aluminum glycerol.
So Yang He from the University of Pittsburgh explored the coated silicon nanoparticles in action at EMSL.
The findings were published just in Nano Energy by scientists from the OSU College of Science OSU College of Engineering Argonne National Laboratory the University of South Florida and the National Energy technology Laboratory in Albany Ore.
and costs less said Xiulei (David) Ji an OSU assistant professor of chemistry in the OSU College of Science
Yael Hanein of Tel aviv University's School of Electrical engineering and head of TAU's Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and including researchers from TAU the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Newcastle University.
Then, in May 2014, scientists from the University of California, Irvine, showed for the first time that these sensors can also be used to improve signals in a related imaging mode known as inelastic electron tunnelling spectroscopy.
University of Manchester researchers have found. Published in the journal Nature the discovery could revolutionize fuel cells
One-atom thick material graphene first isolated and explored in 2004 by a team at The University of Manchester is renowned for its barrier properties
The University of Manchester research suggests that the use of graphene or monolayer boron nitride can allow the existing membranes to become thinner and more efficient with less fuel crossover and poisoning.
In contrast to conventional cancer therapy a University of Cincinnati team has developed several novel designs for iron-oxide based nanoparticles that detect diagnose
The results of the UC work will be presented at the Materials Research Society Conference in Boston Nov 30-Dec 5 by Andrew Dunn doctoral student in materials science engineering in UC's College of Engineering and Applied science.
Working with Dunn in this study are Donglu Shi professor of materials science engineering in UC's College of Engineering and Applied science;
David Mast associate professor of physics in UC's Mcmicken College of Arts and Sciences; and Giovanni Pauletti associate professor in the James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy.
The UC study used the living cells of mice to successfully test the efficacy of their two-sided nanoparticle designs (one side for cell targeting and the other for treatment delivery) in combination with the PTT.
and Research) in Singapore the National University of Singapore and the Singapore University of Technology and Design have published a paper on the new technique for realizing 3d full-color stereoscopic prints in a recent issue of Nature Communications.
and delivers anticancer drugs Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has invented a unique biomarker with two exceptional functions.
The discovery is an important contribution to the University's research effort in Future Healthcare
which the university aims to make a global mark in. The other four peaks include Sustainable Earth New Media the East-West knowledge hub and Innovation Asia.
Das and Walker Julie AK Mcdonald (Kingston General Hospital) Dr. Petrof (KGH) and Emma Allen-Vercoe (University of Guelph) were published in the Journal of Nanomedicine and Nanotechnology.
but a new, injectable material developed by team of researchers from Texas A&m University and the Massachusetts institute of technology could buy wounded soldiers the time they need to survive by preventing blood loss from serious internal injuries.
and plasma technologies Fan was named researcher of the year for the Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering.
since 1988 and have been the subject of countless high school chemistry class experiments. They employ cheap organic dyes
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have engineered a nanowire system that could pave the way for this ability,
at the university. The patent covers microscopic genetics-based technology that can help safely kill mosquitos and other insect pests.
and Jianzhen Zhang visiting scientist from Shanxi University in China developed the technology: nanoparticles comprised of a nontoxic biodegradable polymer matrix
. But a team from Argonne National Laboratory and Ohio University has found a way around this limitation by combining STM with the spectroscopic versatility of synchrotron x-rays achieving chemical fingerprinting of individual nickel clusters on a copper surface at a resolution
and sensitivity made possible with these advances in synchrotron x-ray tunneling microscopy (SX-STM) the Argonne/Ohio University experiment team analyzed nickel clusters deposited on a copper surface.
Researchers at Drexel University and Dalian University of Technology in China have engineered chemically a new electrically conductive nanomaterial that is flexible enough to fold
-and hold enough energy to run your watch for a long period of time said Michel Barsoum Phd Distinguished Professor in the College of Engineering.
This development was facilitated by collaboration between research groups of Yury Gogotsi Phd Distinguished University and Trustee Chair professor in the College of Engineering at Drexel and Jieshan Qiu vice dean for research
of the School of Chemical engineering at Dalian University of Technology in China. Zheng Ling a doctoral student from Dalian spent a year at Drexel spearheading the research that led to the first MXENE-polymer composites.
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Wisconsin-Madison created the microtube platform to study neuron growth.
So we spoke to Professor Duncan Graham a UK-based nanoscientist from University of Strathclyde
He is supported by faculty staff and Ph d. students in the Joint Department of Biomedical engineering a partnership between NC State and UNC-Chapel hill that tackles urgent biomedical problems.
#A billion holes can make a battery Researchers at the University of Maryland have invented a single tiny structure that includes all the components of a battery that they say could bring about the ultimate miniaturization of energy storage components.
#Team grows uniform nanowires A researcher from Missouri University of Science and Technology has developed a new way to grow nanowire arrays with a determined diameter length and uniform consistency.
Together with researchers at the Technion in Israel and the Technical University in Dortmund the Stuttgart-based group describes in a recent paper a kind of artificial scallop just a few hundred micrometers in diameter.
Researchers with Berkeley Lab and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have invented a simple, one-step process for producing these nanopores in a graphene membrane using the photothermal properties of gold nanorods."
Adrian Bachtold, together with Marc Dykman (Michigan University), report on an experiment in which a carbon nanotube mechanical resonator exhibits quality factors of up to 5 million,
and his research group at the University of California (UC) Berkeley achieved symmetry-breaking in a bulk metamaterial solution for the first time.
#Better bomb-sniffing technology with new detector material University of Utah engineers have developed a new type of carbon nanotube material for handheld sensors that will be quicker
Vaporsens, a university spin-off company plans to build a prototype handheld sensor by year's end
In an international study University of Melbourne and the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the US found that pairs of closely spaced nano particles made of gold can act as optical antennas.
Chief Investigator Ken Crozier a professor of Physics and Electronic engineering at the University of Melbourne said Up until now there were two competing theories surrounding
Published in Nature Nanotechnology researchers from Cardiff University have unveiled a new method for viewing nanodiamonds inside human living cells for purposes of biomedical research.
In their latest paper, researchers from Cardiff University's Schools of Biosciences and Physics showed that non-fluorescing nanodiamonds (diamonds without defects) can be imaged optically
Danny Porath, the Etta and Paul Schankerman Professor in Molecular Biomedicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, reports reproducible and quantitative measurements of electricity flow through long molecules made of four
Porath is affiliated with the Hebrew University's Institute of Chemistry and its Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.
The molecules were produced by the group of Alexander Kotlyar from Tel aviv University, who has been collaborating with Porath for 15 years.
a miniature device developed at the University of Montreal can measure a patient's blood for methotrexate, a commonly used but potentially toxic cancer drug.
The research was led by Jean-François Masson and Joelle Pelletier of the university's Department of chemistry. Methotrexate has been used for many years to treat certain cancers
#Research unlocks potential of super-compound Researchers at The University of Western australia's have discovered that nano-sized fragments of graphene sheets of pure carbon-can speed up the rate of chemical reactions.
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
#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.
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
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."
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.
The purified silicon was provided through collaboration with Professor Kohei Itoh from Keio University in Japan.
#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.
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.
#'Endless possibilities'for bionanotechnology Scientists from the University of Leeds have taken a crucial step forward in bionanotechnology,
from the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leeds and a co-author of the paper.
a Phd student from the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leeds and the lead author of the research paper.
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.
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,
#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.
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.
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
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
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 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,
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.
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 termed'valleytronics'.
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
#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
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.
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.
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.
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 Penn contingent also worked with researchers from the Naval Research Laboratory and Brown University.
and collaborators at Rensselaer Polytechnic institute The latter has a direct impact on the power yield of solar cells.
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.
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