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Graphene brings sports footwear breakthrough

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A partnership is launching a revolutionary world-first in the sports footwear market following a co…

Warning over dangerous coal-based nanoparticle

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 22 Aug 2017

Potentially dangerous nanoparticles produced through coal combustion have been discovered by scient…

New conducting sheets hint at smaller electronics

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 19 Jun 2017

Smaller electronic devices could be possible after scientists discover a new way to create extremel…

Flexible superconductor developed

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 2 May 2017

Experimental physicists in Germany have developed an ultrathin, flexible nanomaterial with supercon…

Nanocars driven by UV light

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 29 Nov 2016

An international collaboration has seen scientists control single molecule ‘nanoroadsters’ with lig…

World’s smallest machines scoop Chemistry Nobel

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 5 Oct 2016

The 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart a…

Nanoparticle offers hope for future cancer treatment

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A ‘smart’, biodegradeable nanoparticle has been created that can be used to target and treat tumour…

World's smallest engine created

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 17 May 2016

Scientists from the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge have created the world’s tiniest engine – a f…

New use discovered for graphene

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 13 Jan 2016

Graphene has been found to be adept at filtering subatomic particles, by a team of UK scientists.

Invisible wires could improve solar efficiency

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 29 Dec 2015

Scientists have found a way to improve solar cell design, improving efficiency and lowering the cos…

Electrical paper material developed

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 24 Dec 2015

Swedish scientists have developed a paper-like material with the ability to store electricity.

New sensor for MRI and fluorescent imaging

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 26 Nov 2014

Nanoparticles capable of simultaneously performing fluorescent and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)…

Lipid membrane ink gives nanometre resolution

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 16 Oct 2014

Lipid membranes have been used as a biological ‘ink’ to draw in the nanometre region in a new techn…

Rotating nanoparticles cause cancer cells to self-destruct

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 29 Apr 2014

Magnetically controlled nanoparticles which force tumour cells to self-destruct could form part of …

On-demand nano-vaccines

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 19 Feb 2014

Vaccines produced on the spot when and where a disease is breaking out might be possible thanks to …

Network nanotrain arrives on time

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 16 Dec 2013

Powered by nanoscale motors and controlled by DNA – the latest tiny self-assembling transport netwo…

Nanoparticles by design

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 11 Dec 2013

Researchers in Japan say they have succeeded in designing and creating multicomponent nanoparticles…

Carbon nanotube acts as size sorter

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 7 Oct 2013

Tiny molecules passing through nanotubes can be propelled or slowed down depending on their size sa…

“Wandering meatloaf” snail’s teeth may improve solar cells

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 15 Feb 2013

Materials Science

The teeth of a marine snail can be used to create less expensive, more efficient n…

The lightweight material 15 times stronger than steel

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 6 Feb 2013

Scientists at the University of Southampton have developed the strongest, lightest weight silica na…