Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology continue to innovate when it comes to creating new materials. Two different groups of chemical engineers at MIT recently revealed their respective work–– one involving a new type of lightweight, super-strong plastic, and the other a...
ISO TC 229 Releases Survey on Advanced and Emergent Materials. The American National Standards Institute (ANSI), which administers the U.S. Technical Advisory Group for the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Technical Committee (TC) 229 on Nanotechnologies, announced a survey...
With Fuzzy Nanoparticles, Researchers Reveal a Way to Design Tougher Ballistic Materials. Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Columbia Engineering have discovered a new method to improve the toughness of materials that could lead to stronger versions of...
Researchers Develop a World-first Antibody-drug Delivery System. It sounds like the stuff of science fiction: a man-made crystal that can be attached to antibodies and then supercharge them with potent drugs or imaging agents that can seek out diseased cells with the highest precision,...
3D Laser Nanoprinters Become Compact. The lasers in today's laser printers for paper printouts are tiny. In contrast, 3-D laser printers that print three-dimensional micro- and nanostructures have previously required large and expensive laser systems. Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of...
Programmable Microbial Ink for 3D Printing of Living Materials. A team of researchers from Harvard University and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, has developed a type of living ink that can be used to print living materials. In their paper published in the journal ...
3D Printing Approaches Atomic Dimensions. A new 3D printing technology makes the production of complex metallic objects at the nanoscale possible. A team of chemists led by a scientist from the University of Oldenburg has developed an electrochemical technique that can be used to make objects...
Polymer-coated Nanoparticles to Promote Drug Delivery to the Brain. Treating diseases such as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s is a challenge because drugs have to be able to cross the blood–brain barrier. As a result, the doses administered must be high and only a small fraction reaches the brain,...
Solar Cells get Boost from GaAs Nanowires. Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) have developed semiconductor nanowires from gallium arsenide to make an ultrahigh power-per-weight ratio solar cell. The team claims that if it is placed on top of a traditional...
Smart Material Switches Between Heating And Cooling In Minutes. As anyone who has ever parked a car in the sun on a hot summer day knows, glass windows are great at letting sunlight in but terrible at allowing heat out. Now, engineers at Duke University have developed smart window-like...
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