News tagged with nanofibers
Conical nanocarbon structures could lead to flexible, transparent field emission displays
(PhysOrg.com) -- During the past several years, researchers have used carbon nanotubes and nanofibers to fabricate a variety of transparent, flexible devices, such as OLEDs, transistors, and solar cells. But ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 25, 2010 |
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Silicon-carbon electrodes snap, swell, don't pop
A study that examines a new type of silicon-carbon nanocomposite electrode reveals details of how they function and how repeated use could wear them down. The study also provides clues to why this material ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 14, 2012 |
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Researchers develop “net” nanodetector
Bin Ding and his team of researchers at Donghua University, Shanghai, China, have developed a new method of testing for formaldehyde using an electro-spinning netting technique. The process, described in their paper published ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 01, 2011 |
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Improving batteries' energy storage
MIT researchers have found a way to improve the energy density of a type of battery known as lithium-air (or lithium-oxygen) batteries, producing a device that could potentially pack several times more energy ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jul 25, 2011 |
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Researchers inject nanofiber spheres carrying cells into wounds to grow tissue
For the first time, scientists have made star-shaped, biodegradable polymers that can self-assemble into hollow, nanofiber spheres, and when the spheres are injected with cells into wounds, these spheres biodegrade, ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Apr 17, 2011 |
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Radically simple technique developed to grow conducting polymer thin films
(PhysOrg.com) -- Oil and water don't mix, but add in some nanofibers and all bets are off.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 01, 2010 |
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Scavenging energy waste to turn water into hydrogen fuel
(PhysOrg.com) -- Materials scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have designed a way to harvest small amounts of waste energy and harness them to turn water into usable hydrogen fuel.
Mar 11, 2010 |
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New fiber nanogenerators could lead to electric clothing
(PhysOrg.com) -- In research that gives literal meaning to the term "power suit," University of California, Berkeley, engineers have created energy-scavenging nanofibers that could one day be woven into clothing ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Feb 12, 2010 |
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Nanofiber breakthrough holds promise for medicine and microprocessors
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new method for creating nanofibers made of proteins, developed by researchers at Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly), promises to greatly improve drug delivery methods ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Feb 29, 2012 |
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Ions control shape of nanofibers grown on clear substrate
Researchers from North Carolina State University have found a new way to develop straight carbon nanofibers on a transparent substrate. Growing such nanofiber coatings is important for use in novel biomedical ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 16, 2011 |
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New technique scales up nanofiber production
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new spin on an old technology will give scientists and manufacturers the ability to significantly increase their production of nanofibers, according to researchers at North Carolina State University.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 10, 2011 |
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Caught red-handed: Detection of latent fingerprints through release of fluorescein from a nanofiber mat
(PhysOrg.com) -- When a forensic agent dusts a surface with powder or exposes it to the vapors of an iodine chamber, mystery fans know what is going on: This is how latent fingerprints are made visible so ...
Apr 11, 2011 |
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Antibiotics wrapped in nanofibers turn resistant disease-producing bacteria into ghosts
Encapsulating antibiotics inside nanofibers, like a mummy inside a sarcophagus, gives them the amazing ability to destroy drug-resistant bacteria so completely that scientists described the remains as mere ...
Mar 29, 2011 |
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Study finds more efficient means of creating, arranging carbon nanofibers
Carbon nanofibers hold promise for technologies ranging from medical imaging devices to precise scientific measurement tools, but the time and expense associated with uniformly creating nanofibers of the correct ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 17, 2011 |
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Inspired by a cotton candy machine, engineers put a new spin on creating tiny nanofibers
Hailed as a "cross between a high-speed centrifuge and a cotton candy machine," bioengineers at Harvard have developed a new, practical technology for fabricating tiny nanofibers.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 25, 2010 |
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Nanofiber
Nanofibers are defined as fibers with diameters less than 1000 nm nanometers. They can be produced by interfacial polymerization and electrospinning. Carbon nanofibers are graphitized fibers produced by catalytic synthesis. For optical nanofibers see subwavelength-diameter optical fiber.
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