Researchers at Korea's Chonbuk National University and Korea Institute of Science and Technology have improved the contact of graphene with p-type gallium nitride (p-GaN), resulting in improved near-ultraviolet (NUV) light-emitting diodes ...
Tags: Near-ultraviolet LEDs, Graphene GaN MOCVD, Gallium Nitride
Tera-Barrier Films (TBF) has invented a new stretchable plastic film to offer longer shelf-life of pharmaceuticals, food and electronics. The new plastic film featuring an encapsulated nanoparticle layer acting as an air and moisture ...
Tags: Plastic Film, Tera-Barrier
This image shows a collection of vaccinating nanoparticles, which at their largest are about 1,000 times smaller than a human hair. The inset graphic is a representation of how the engineered proteins decorate a nanoparticle's surface. ...
Researchers have developed a technique for creating nanoparticles that carry two different cancer-killing drugs into the body and deliver those drugs to separate parts of the cancer cell where they will be most effective. The technique was ...
Tags: create nanoparticles, cancer-killing drugs, breast cancer, cancer cell
Malvern Instruments brings a new addition to Pittcon in 2014, exhibiting NanoSight Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis (NTA) systems within its growing portfolio of analytical solutions for industry and academia. Pittcon 2014 is Malvern’s ...
Tags: Malvern, Tracking Analysis Systems
A third or more of all the honey consumed in the U.S. is likely to have been smuggled in from China and may be tainted with illegal antibiotics and heavy metals. A Food Safety News investigation has documented that millions of pounds of ...
Tags: honey, Chinese honey, food safety
Molecules anchored to the surfaces of nanoparticles modify and even control many characteristics of the particles, including how they interact with cells or react to light. The type of binding affects the nanoparticle's behavior and ...
International conglomerate The 3M Company and nanotech startup Cambrios Technologies jointly announced this week that 3M would be marketing a suite of products that will be based on conductors made from Cambrios silver nanowire ink. The ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics, Display
As part of an AiF research project (AiF no. N 17407), scientists from the Hohenstein Institute in Bönnigheim (Germany) have, for the first time, developed a textile finishing with both an antiviral and an antibacterial function. ...
Tags: Textile Finishing
Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a new type of nanoparticle, which can be taken orally and gets successfully absorbed through the digestive tract. The nanoparticles ...
Tags: nanoparticle, Medicine
This review of strategies for improving the performance of polyamide thin-film composite (PA-TFC) reverse osmosis (RO ) membranes looks in particular at surface modifications and the incorporation of nanoparticles. Polyamide thin-film ...
In the journal Nature, researchers published a novel pathway that would allow for preprogrammable self-assembly of nanoparticles. The potential nanomedical applications of this discovery could be endless. A team of Finnish and German ...
An automated in-situ test method applied alongside Mentor's T3Ster platform can enable SSL product developers to design an optimal thermal management system that can ensure long life and maintained lumen output for LED-based products. To ...
Tags: LEDs, Austria Symposium
NanoSight Ltd, has been acquired by a leading global provider of instrumentation and expertise for materials and biophysical characterization, Malvern Instruments Ltd (Malvern, UK). The acquisition was completed on Friday 27th September. ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Ciaran Murphy, Head of Product Management at Malvern Instruments, will review the benefits and limitations of common nanoparticle sizing technologies in a presentation at Nanotechnology & the Coatings Industry 2013. This one-day conference, ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Coatings