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Virus As Nano-building Block: Extreme Nature Helps Scientists Design Nano Materials
Scientists are using designs
in nature from extreme
environments to overcome the
challenges of producing
materials on the nanometre
... > full story
Gold Nanostars Outshine The Competition
Scientists used
surface-enhanced Raman
spectroscopy to demonstrate
that gold nanostars exhibit
optical qualities that make
them superior for chemical
... > full story
High Powered New Explosive Developed
Scientists have developed a
novel tetranitrate ester,
which is solid at room
temperature, is a highly
powerful explosive, and can
be melt-cast into the
desired shape. ... > full story
New Knowledge About Thermoelectric Materials Could Give Better Energy Efficiency
New research could be used
to develop motors that are
more fuel-efficient and
provide for more
environmentally friendly
... > full story
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New Solar Energy Material Captures Every Color Of The Rainbow
October 17, 2008 — Researchers have created a new material that overcomes two of the major obstacles to solar power: it absorbs all the energy contained in sunlight, and generates electrons in a way that makes them ... > full story -
Microbes Useful For For Environmental Cleanup And Oil Recovery
October 16, 2008 — A unique, patent-pending microbial consortium can be used both for cleaning up the environment and addressing our energy needs. The Savannah River National Laboratory's BioTiger was originally ... > full story -
New Recipe For Self-healing Plastic Includes Dash Of Food Additive
October 16, 2008 — Adding a food additive to damaged polymers can help restore them to full strength, say scientists at the University of Illinois who cooked up the novel, self-healing ... > full story -
Under Pressure At The Nanoscale, Polymers Play By Different Rules
October 13, 2008 — Scientists putting the squeeze on thin films of polystyrene have discovered that at very short length scales the polymer doesn't play by the ... > full story -
Strong Elasticity Size Effects In ZnO Nanowires
October 13, 2008 — Researchers recently performed experiments and computations to resolve major existing discrepancies about the scaling of ZnO nanowires elastic properties. These properties are essential to the design ... > full story -
Scientists Engineer Superconducting Thin Films
October 10, 2008 — Scientists have successfully produced two-layer thin films where neither layer is superconducting on its own, but which exhibit a nanometer-thick region of superconductivity at their interface. The ... > full story -
Baked Slug: New Method To Test Fireproofing Material
October 10, 2008 — Researchers have developed a technique for measuring a key thermal property of fire-resistive materials at high temperatures. The measurement technique has already been adopted commercially and ... > full story -
Promising New Material Could Improve Gas Mileage
October 10, 2008 — With gasoline at high prices, it's disheartening to know that up to three-quarters of the potential energy you are paying for is wasted. Now researchers have identified a promising new material that ... > full story -
Feel The Light: OLED With Touch Function
October 9, 2008 — Organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) are one of the most promising lighting technology for future lighting solutions. The OLED technology is the first real area light source technology in history. It ... > full story -
Deep Biosphere Research Points To New Methods For Recovering Petroleum
October 8, 2008 — Miles below us, deep within Earth's crust, life is astir. Organisms there are not the large creatures typically envisioned when thinking of life. Instead, thriving there are microbes, the smallest ... > full story
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