HEADLINES ARCHIVE
Surgery Creates Custom Nanoparticles
A breakthrough technique for site-specific nanoparticle surgery could enable scientists to create particles tailor-made for specific purposes.
UK Report: Measurement Challenges in the Hydrogen Industry
Measurement plays a critical role in accelerating the shift toward the hydrogen economy.
Video: Max Catches Some Rays with UV Curable Adhesives
Surf’s up! Max hangs ten at the beach and is reminded of Master Bond’s UV curable adhesives. These one part systems offer exceptionally fast processing times and excellent adhesion to a variety of substrates.
Turning Sugar into Plastic
The manufacturing of drink bottles, glass lenses and scratch-resistant coatings for phones currently calls for polycarbonate—manufactured with BPA (banned from baby bottle manufacturing) and phosgene, which is highly toxic and was used as a chemical weapon during World War I.
Superhydrophobic Material Tuned for Waterproofing, Oil Recovery
Inexpensive, non-toxic nanomaterials might replace more expensive, hazardous materials used for waterproofing and antifouling/fogging.
Scientists Develop New Method for 3-D Printing Human Skin
The new 3-D cell printing strategy, which is detailed in the journal Bifabrication, can be completed in one single step process, according to researchers.
New To-Go Container Solves Container Waste Problem
Eco-Products teamed up with La Tour Café to introduce a new food container that is better for the environment and customers.
Revolutionizing the Root Canal
With more than 15 million root canals performed annually in the U.S. with varying long-term results, researchers at OHSU in Portland, Oregon, have developed a method to improve the process that involves the creation of new blood cells in teeth.
Low Particulate Hydrophilic Coating for Medical Devices
Lubricent Ultra bonds to a variety of base materials, making it the perfect coating solution for difficult surfaces like polyimide and polyethylene.
Scientists Develop a Biodegradable Microbead
Thanks to the campaigning efforts of environmental groups, the UK government has pledged to ban the plastic microbeads this year, triggering scientists and engineers to develop a biodegradable renewable alternative to the beads.
Laser-based Coating Process for Cylinder Corrosion Protection
The laser cladding technology enables faster production of coatings with more flexibility in materials than the traditional arc welding process.
Hydrogel Strings Get Muscle from Mussels
An amino acid found in the sticky feet of mussels makes biocompatible nanofibers line up into strong hydrogel strings.
Hot Tests Begin at Radioactive Solid Waste Facility
The facility is a key element in decommissioning the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant.
Rusty Steel Mesh Reclaimed as Battery Electrodes
Coin cells made with these new electrodes demonstrate excellent capacity, discharge voltages, and cycle stability.
Cellulose Microbeads Reduce Plastic Waste in Rivers and Oceans
Microbeads made from cellulose can replace their plastic counterparts, preventing tons of waste plastic from entering inland waterways and the world’s oceans.
VIDEO: Transformative Food Could Reshape the Way Food is Transported
MIT’s Media Lab and Tangable Media Group have teamed up to revolutionize food printing called the transformative appetite. Using food printing technology, pasta is printed in a 2-D shape that is flat until it is put into boiling water.
An Electrocatalytic Route to Chemicals from Lignin
The method breaks down lignin and converts it into commodity chemicals.
Processes Enabling Nanomanufacturing
The processes that nanomanufacturing engineers use to fabricate nanomaterials, nanoelectronic devices and other nanotechnology products depend on their nanotechnology approach and the specific nanotechnology product being manufactured. Two major approaches to nanomanufacturing are top down and bottom up. Nanofabrication processes enable the bottom-up approach. Nanoimprinting and self-assembly processes are newer nanofabrication processes under development. Powder and particle fabrication methods enable the top-down approach.
Detecting Hazardous Radioactive Substances from Even Greater Distances
A new method for detecting hazardous radioactive substances from remote distances has been developed by Professor Eunmi Choi and a team of UNIST researchers.
First Monolayer Magnet Discovered
Breakthrough research has identified the first material—chromium triiodide, CrI3--that retains its intrinsic magnetic properties when formed in a single layer.