A team of Stanford University researchers, including former Energy Secretary Steven Chu, believes it has achieved the “holy grail” of lithium battery design: an anode of pure lit... Read more
At least every other day, there’s a new breakthrough in nanotechnology that promises to harness the tiny, uber-complex tech to improve the world as we know it. Mostly because this late... Read more
A new wearable sensor stores and transmits motion data and delivers drugs Researchers have created a wearable device that is as thin as a temporary tattoo and can store and transmit data abo... Read more
Temporarily violates the famous second law of thermodynamics, something that is impossible on human time and length scale. Objects with sizes in the nanometer range, such as the molecular bu... Read more
An environmentally friendly candidate material to replace plastics in many high-technology applications Tufts University engineers have demonstrated that it is possible to generate nanostruc... Read more
Silicon anodes could store 10 times more charge than the graphite anodes in today’s rechargeable lithium-ion batteries An electrode designed like a pomegranate – with silicon nanoparti... Read more
Optical wireless communications could eventually replace underwater acoustic communications systems for short distance applications University of California, San Diego electrical engineering... Read more
New approach developed at MIT could generate power from sunlight efficiently and on demand. A new approach to harvesting solar energy, developed by MIT researchers, could improve efficiency... Read more
“Electrical control of a property that formerly could only be tuned through structural changes will enable significant new possibilities when designing the smallest possible devices fo... Read more
The system can construct its own network of tracks spanning tens of micrometres in length, transport cargo across the network and even dismantle the tracks. Tiny self-assembling transport ne... Read more
Enables new classes of electronics, diagnostic devices and chemical sensors A multi-institutional team of engineers has developed a new approach to the fabrication of nanostructures for the... Read more
The technique could facilitate the use of nanoparticles for optical, electrical, optoelectronic, magnetic, catalysis and other applications Using star-shaped block co-polymer structures as t... Read more
“These described methods allow us to do this in two to three hours, a vast improvement over standard culturing practice, which can take as much as two weeks to provide a diagnosis.... Read more
A patient’s own white cells could be harvested and used to create personalized LLVs By cloaking nanoparticles in the membranes of white blood cells, scientists at The Methodist Hospita... Read more
Study offers blueprint for creating machines at the nanoscale An international team of scientists has taken the next step in creating nanoscale machines by designing a multi-component molecu... Read more
