News tagged with novel material

Success in developing groundbreaking electrolyte materials

The Fuel Cell Nano-Materials Group at the Japanese National Institute for Materials Science has successfully developed two types of novel materials which satisfy all the three requirements for electrolyte: ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Nov 24, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Paper-thin supercapacitor has higher capacitance when twisted than any non-twisted supercapacitor

(PhysOrg.com) -- In an effort to develop wearable electronics, researchers have designed a new ultra-thin supercapacitor that has a capacitance that is six times higher than that of any current commercial ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 21, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (57) | comments 9 | with audio podcast feature

Designer optoelectronics - quantum mechanics for new materials

European researchers have combined computer modelling of quantum mechanics and precision fabrication processes to create novel transparent conductive oxides made to order for a wide range of scientific and ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Aug 27, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Simpler method for building varieties of nanocrystal superlattices

Collaboration by chemists, physicists and materials scientists at the University of Pennsylvania has created a simple and inexpensive method to rapidly grow centimeter-scale membranes of binary nanocrystal ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nanosponge drug delivery system more effective than direct injection

(PhysOrg.com) -- When loaded with an anticancer drug, a delivery system based on a novel material called nanosponge is three to five times more effective at reducing tumor growth than direct injection.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jun 02, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Impact sensor provides athletic support

As athletes strive for perfection, sports scientists need to exploit every technological advance to help them achieve that goal. Researchers in New Zealand have now developed a new type of wearable impact sensor based that ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 14, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Chemists create novel DNA assembly line

Chemists at New York University and China's Nanjing University have created a DNA assembly line that has the potential to create novel materials efficiently on the nanoscale. Their work is reported in the latest issue of ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 12, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists witness nature's complexity unfold in self-assembling quasicrystals

(PhysOrg.com) -- Just a few decades ago, scientists believed that all ordered matter consists of self-repeating building blocks -- atoms, ions or molecules. In this view, the ordinary solids of everyday life ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 31, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (17) | comments 3

Beyond flash -- memories are made of this

(PhysOrg.com) -- The race is on for a successor to the popular 'flash' memory used in portable devices. European researchers think they have found a candidate in novel materials combined with a simple, easily ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 2

Heat-Transfer Material Could Allow More Powerful Radar Electronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- Open any computer and you're sure to see at least one massive cooling device, complete with metal fins and a noisy fan. Today's high-power processing chips generate lots of heat -- and those ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 4

'Most extreme' material: Graphene could be successor to silicon for next generation microchips; 200 times stronger than

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a blown-up image from a scanning tunneling microscope, it looks just like an endless sheet of chicken wire: a simple flat sheet made up of a lattice of hexagons. But this nanoscopic material ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 05, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (23) | comments 1

First tri-continuous mesoporous Silica complex structure developed in Singapore

Singapore's Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) has developed the first tri-continuous mesoporous material using a unique surfactant template. This completely new porous structure previously been predicted ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 05, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0


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