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News Nanotechnology

• Putting a nanomachine to work
  

  A team of chemists at LMU has successfully coupled the directed motion of a light-activated molecular motor to a different chemical unit – thus taking an important step toward the realization of synthetic nanomachines. Molecular motors are chemical compounds that convert energy into directed motions more

• Complete filling of batches of nanopipettes
  

  Nanopipettes, in which a nanoscale channel is filled with a solution, are used in all kinds of nanotechnology applications, including scanning-probe microscopy. Bringing a solution into a nanopipette with a pore diameter below 10 nanometer is challenging, however, since capillary forces prevent the more

• More efficient risk assessment for nanomaterials
  

  Nanotechnology is booming, but risk assessment for these tiny particles is a laborious process that presents significant challenges to the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR). To find more efficient test methods, researchers at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in more

Videos Nanotechnology

Researchers create a tiny laser using nanoparticles - Aalto University Research

Researchers at Aalto University, Finland, are the first to develop a plasmonic nanolaser that operates at visible light frequencies and uses so-called dark lattice modes. more

Carbon nanotube transistors outperform silicon for first time ever

In a world first, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison materials engineers have created carbon nanotube transistors that outperform state-of-the-art silicon transistors.A big milestone for nanotechnology, this breakthrough could enable longer battery life, faster wireless communication and ... more

Antifogging Short

Split-screen video captures water droplets condensing on the cylindrical nanotexture (left) and nanocone texture (right) for 30 seconds. Neighboring droplets on the nanocone texture combine and spontaneously jump off, but those on the nanocylinder texture become stuck. Credit: David Quéré, ESPCI ... more

White papers Nanotechnology

• Structural and Chemical 3D Imaging with AFM and Raman.
  

  In the Life Sciences and Bio-medical Research, the characterization of chemical compounds within cells or tissues is one of the most important and difficult tasks for researchers to perform. The development of pharmaceuticals such as drug delivery co more

Infographics Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology Day & Everyday Uses of Nanotechnology

October 9 is National Nanotechnology Day in the US, as it’s 10/9 in the American date format (and one nanometre is 10–9 metres). This month’s edition of Periodic Graphics in C&EN takes a look at a selection of the nanotechnology that’s already made its way into our everyday lives. more

Publications Nanotechnology

• Silkworm silk-based materials and devices generated using bio-nanotechnology

  Silks are natural fibrous protein polymers that are spun by silkworms and spiders. Among silk variants, there has been increasing interest devoted to the silkworm silk of B. mori, due to its availability in large quantities along with its unique material properties. Silk fibroin can be extracted fro more

• IJMS, Vol. 19, Pages 1856: Boron: Functions and Approaches to Enhance Its Availability in Plants for Sustainable Agriculture

  IJMS, Vol. 19, Pages 1856: Boron: Functions and Approaches to Enhance Its Availability in Plants for Sustainable Agriculture International Journal of Molecular Sciences doi: 10.3390/ijms19071856 Authors: Fareeha Shireen Muhammad Azher Nawaz Chen Chen Qikai Zhang Zuhua Zheng Hamza more

• Reconsidering resonator sensing

  Nanotechnology Changes in the frequency of a nanoscale mechanical resonator can be used for many sensing applications, provided that there is an adequate signal-to-noise ratio. Normally, this ratio is improved by creating resonators with higher quality factors that “ring” for longer times. more

q&more articles Nanotechnology

• Synthetic receptors for viruses
  

  Thanks to technological advances in polymer chemistry and nanotechnology, it is now possible to synthetically produce nanomaterials with a wide range of properties and functionalities. This has paved the way for producing bio-inspired structures and systems which, for example, possess binding properties that follow the molecular recognition principles of biological systems. more

Authors Nanotechnology

• Dr. Olga Borovinskaya
  

  Olga Borovinskaya, born in 1985, studied chemistry at the North Kazakhstan State University (NKSU) and the ETH Zurich, where she completed her master's degree. In 2014, she received her doctorate in chemistry at the ETH Zurich and applied biosciences, specializing in analytical chemistry. Ever since more