| New paint makes tough self-cleaning surfaces. |
| A new paint that makes robust self-cleaning surfaces has been developed by a team led by UCL researchers. The coating can be applied to clothes, paper, glass and steel, and when combined with adhesives, maintains its self-cleaning properties after being wiped, scratched with a knife and scuffed with sandpaper. READ MORE |
| Medical nanoparticles for the local treatment of lung cancer. |
| Working in a joint project at the NIM (Nanosystems Initiative Munich) Excellence Cluster, scientists from the Helmholtz Zentrum München (HMGU) and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich have developed nanocarriers that site-selectively release medicines/drugs at the tumour site in human and mouse lungs. This approach has led to a significant increase in the effectiveness of current cancer medicines in lung tumour tissue. READ MORE |
| OLED-based, large-surface area light-emitting plastic film. |
Based on OLED technology and implemented by means of a printing machine, this method developed by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd provides an opportunity to create patterned and flexible light-emitting surfaces on advertising displays, info signs and lighting fixtures, for instance. The method also enables transparent smart surfaces to be attached to window panels or packaging. READ MORE
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| The first ever photograph of light as both a particle and wave. |
Light behaves both as a particle and as a wave. Since the days of Einstein, scientists have been trying to directly observe both of these aspects of light at the same time. Now, scientists at EPFL have succeeded in capturing the first-ever snapshot of this dual behavior.Energy-space photography of light confined on a nanowire, simultaneously shows both spatial interference and energy quantization. READ MORE
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| Silver nanoparticles adorn graphene to utilise light efficiently. |
The most ubiquitous form of energy around us, light, is surprisingly underutilised. This is largely because photo-based devices are very inefficient at absorbing and then converting light into a useful electrical signal. Now researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IIS) have designed a novel device based on graphene and metal nanoparticles that shows greatly enhanced response to light and is colour sensitive. READ MORE
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| Flexible nanosensors for wearable device and smart labels. |
| A new method developed at the Institute of Optoelectronics Systems and Microtechnology (ISOM) from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) will enable the fabrication of optical nanosensors capable of sticking on uneven surfaces and biological surfaces like human skin. This result can boost the use of wearable devices to monitor parameters such as temperature, breath and heart pressure. It is also a low cost technology that uses materials like standard polycarbonate compact disks, aluminium films and adhesive tapes. READ MORE |
| Optical nanoantennas set the stage for a NEMS lab-on-a-chip revolution. |
Newly developed tiny antennas, likened to spotlights on the nanoscale, offer the potential to measure food safety, identify pollutants in the air and even quickly diagnose and treat cancer, according to the Australian scientists who created them. The new antennas are cubic in shape, and do a better job than previous spherical ones at directing an ultra-narrow beam of light where it is needed, with little or no loss due to heating and scattering. READ MORE |
| Quick nano test for ebola. |
| When diagnosing a case of Ebola, time is of the essence. However, existing diagnostic tests take at least a day or two to yield results, preventing health care workers from quickly determining whether a patient needs immediate treatment and isolation. A new test from MIT researchers could change that. The device, a simple paper strip, has silver nanoparticles of different colors that indicate different diseases. It can rapidly diagnose Ebola, as well as other viral hemorrhagic fevers such as yellow fever and dengue fever within about 10 minutes. READ MORE |
| Magnetic nanoparticles could stop blood clot-caused strokes. |
| By loading magnetic nanoparticles with drugs and dressing them in biochemical camouflage, Houston Methodist researchers say they can destroy blood clots 100 to 1,000 times faster than a commonly used clot-busting technique. The finding is based on experiments in human blood and mouse clotting models. If the drug delivery system performs similarly well in planned human clinical trials, it could mean a major step forward in the prevention of strokes, heart attacks, pulmonary embolisms, and other dire circumstances where clots - if not quickly busted - can cause severe tissue damage and death. READ MORE |
| New paper-like material could boost electric vehicle batteries |
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering have developed a novel paper-like material for lithium-ion batteries. It has the potential to boost by several times the specific energy, or amount of energy that can be delivered per unit weight of the battery.
This paper-like material is composed of sponge-like silicon nanofibers more than 100 times thinner than human hair. READ MORE |
| New nanogel for drug delivery |
Scientists are interested in using gels to deliver drugs because they can be molded into specific shapes and designed to release their payload over a specified time period. However, current versions aren’t always practical because must be implanted surgically. To help overcome that obstacle, MIT chemical engineers have designed a new type of self-healing hydrogel that could be injected through a syringe. Such gels, which can carry one or two drugs at a time, could be useful for treating cancer, macular degeneration, or heart disease, among other diseases. READ MORE
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'ANM 2015'
20-22 July 2015
Aveiro, Portugal |
6th International Conference on Advanced Nanomaterials, 1st International Conference on Graphene Technology & 1st International Conference on Hydrogen Energy.
At ANM2015, three parallel conferences will take place: Nanomaterials, Graphene, and Hydrogen Energy. Guidelines for abstract submission are available by clicking here. Supported by Journal of Applied Physics (AIP), International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (Elsevier), Nanomedicine (Elsevier) and Materials Today: Proceedings (Elsevier). Register here. |
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