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Toward Safe and Sustainable Nanomaterials: Chemical Information Call - in to Manufacturers of Nanomaterials by California as a Case Study

Stanford researchers are getting a lot of mileage from nanomaterials by analyzing market needs

Atomic force microscopy can not only gather high - resolution images but also take sensitive force measurements of nanomaterials by pulling on them.

Sergei Kalinin (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)-- Materials and nanoscientist Dr. Kalinin creates novel technologies to study and control the functionality of nanomaterials by combining imaging, big data and materials theory.

The research, in which the CIC biomaGUNE and the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid also participate, not only represents a record in optical quality in which billions of gold nanoparticles behave as a single one, but introduces a new way to manipulate and improve nanomaterials by employing lasers as chisels in the hands of a sculptor.

Not exact matches

An international research collaboration led by Drexel's Yury Gogotsi, PhD, Distinguished University and Trustee Chair professor in the College of Engineering and director of its Nanomaterials Research Group, has created a two - dimensional carbon / sulfur nanolaminate that could be a viable candidate for use as a lithium - sulfur cathode.

The absorbance and scattering of light is determined by the size, shape and material of the nanomaterial and, more importantly, it is also affected by any medium in close proximity to the nanomushroom, such as cells that have been placed on the slide.

The carbon / sulfur nanolaminates synthesized by Gogotsi's group demonstrate the same uniformity as the infiltrated carbon nanomaterials, but the sulfur in the nanolaminates is uniformly deposited in the carbon matrix as atomically thin layers and a strong covalent bonding between carbon and sulfur is observed.

A research group led by Chengsi Pan, Postdoctoral Researcher, and Tsuyoshi Takata, NIMS Special Researcher, at the Global Research Center for Environment and Energy Based on Nanomaterials Science (GREEN; Director - General: Kohei Uosaki) of the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS; President: Sukekatsu Ushioda), and Kazunari Domen, a professor of the Department of Chemical System Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo (President: Junichi Hamada) newly developed a water - splitting photocatalyst that is operable over a wider range of the visible light spectrum than before.

Their findings could have implications for optimising the thermal budget of nanoelectronic devices - which means they could help dissipate the total amount of thermal energy generated by electron currents - or in the production of energy through thermoelectric effects in novel nanomaterials.

This work was supported by the National Science Foundation and the NASA - funded Merced Nanomaterials Center for Energy and Sensing.

LONDON, U.K. — Although «gray goo» made of self - replicating nanostuff is unlikely to doom the planet, some kinds of nanomaterials may indeed be hazardous and require a closer look, according to a 12 - month study on nanotechnology published today by the U.K. Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering.

A research team led by Timothy R. Nurkiewicz, Ph.D., associate professor in the WVU School of Medicine Department of Physiology and Pharmacology and researcher in the Center for Cardiovascular and Respiratory Sciences, is finding inhalation of engineered nanomaterials negatively impacts gestational development in animal models.

A team of electrical engineers led by E. Fred Schubert of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, approached the problem by creating a new class of highly porous nanomaterials.

Nanomaterials are prized by researchers because their small size gives them electrical and optical behaviors not found in their bulkier counterparts.

«We already know microvascular function is negatively impacted by breathing nanomaterials,» Nurkiewicz said, summarizing his research program's discoveries over the previous years.

Although the AOPs developed until now have addressed chemical toxicity, the approach also lends itself to describing the mechanistic basis to potential adverse effects caused by nanomaterials, as demonstrated very recently by the JRC.

The multi-national team of experts from the UK, Germany and Russia, was led by Andrei Khlobystov, a Professor of Nanomaterials and Director of The University of Nottingham's Nanoscale and Microscale Research Centre.

Gaps in the research — despite more than $ 14 billion in government and private investment — include a basic understanding of how nanomaterials are absorbed and metabolized by the human body as well as how toxic they may be to people already working with them.

Measuring roughly 10 atoms by 1 atom, the minute device was fashioned from graphene, an impossibly thin carbon nanomaterial.

One of the most comprehensive reports on nanotech yet produced (published by the UK's Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering in 2004) found that most nanomaterials present few novel risks.

The investigators stress that the danger is posed only by types of nanomaterials that are long, thin, and biopersistent — meaning that they are not broken down inside the body: «these long, thin nanotubes are very similar to asbestos in their structural and physical characteristics,» MacFarlane says.

The scientists added in their report, «The precise control over interface geometry offered by our method enables the design of two - component protein nanomaterials with diverse nanoscale features, such as surfaces, pores, and internal volumes, with high accuracy.»

New research, published in the journal Scientific Reports, demonstrates that by growing nanomaterials, specifically carbon nanotubes, on the surface of the carbon fibres it is possible to impart these necessary properties.

«The results reported by Du et al could have significant impact on the fields of nanomaterials for medical imaging and lighting,» says Prof Manish Chhowalla of Rutgers University, and Editor - in - Chief of Applied Materials Today.

[Xinghua Shi et al., «Cell entry of one - dimensional nanomaterials occurs by tip recognition and rotation»] As nanotubes may have medical applications, making them safe is key.

In addition to Xu, Yan, and Rogers, co-authors of the paper, «Assembly of micro / nanomaterials into complex, three - dimensional architectures by compressive buckling,» include Yan, Kyungin Jang, Wen Huang, Haoran Fu, Jeonghyun Kim, Zijun Wei, Matthew Flavin, Joselle McCracken, Renhan Wang, Adina Badea, Yuhao Liu, 1 Dongqing Xiao, Guoyan Zhou, Jungwoo Lee, Ha Uk Chung, Huanyu Cheng, Wen Ren, Anthony Banks, Xiuling Li, Ungyu Paik, Ralph G. Nuzzo, and Yonggang Huang and Yihui Zhang (Northwestern University).

So our study looked at whether spider silk's properties could be «enhanced» by artificially incorporating various different nanomaterials into the silk's biological protein structures,» said Pugno.

Simulations by Rice University scientists show how carbon nanomaterials may be optimized to replace expensive platinum in cathodes for electricity - generating fuel cells for transportation and other applications.

Their study reveals the atom - level mechanisms by which doped nanomaterials catalyze oxygen reduction reactions (ORR).

7 Analysts say the global market for manufactured goods using nanomaterials could hit $ 1.6 trillion by 2013.

After the filaments are injected into the body, the resulting hydrogel network functions as a drug depot that slowly degrades by breaking down into spherical nanomaterials called micelles, which are programmed to travel to specific targets.

These predictions, which were verified by comparisons with high - resolution microscopic images of real molecules on metal surfaces, may lead to controlled, large - scale fabrication of tiny electrical wires and other nanomaterials for future devices.

This technology, the NuCress ™ scaffold, is a nanomaterial - based bone regeneration device pioneered by UA Little Rock's Dr. Alexandru S. Biris, Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable Trust Nanotechnology chair, and director of the Center for Integrative Nanotechnology Sciences.

Seminar co-hosted by Materials Science and Engineering and MCATM: Liming Dai - Functional Energy Materials: From 1D and 2D Polymers to 3D Carbon Nanomaterials

A new review article appearing in Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) co-authored by Dr. Todd Kuiken, a research associate for the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN), focuses on the use of nanomaterials for environmental cleanup.

And the team is intrigued by the idea that different nanomaterials could potentially be developed to collect other liquids, such as methanol.

A study published last week in the journal PNAS by researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara, found that the presence of two nanomaterials used in exhaust gases and fertilizers stunt the growth of soybean plants.

An article by Dr. Aihui Ma - Ham, Dr. Zhiwen Tang, Ms. Hong Wu, Dr. Jun Wang and Dr. Yuehe Lin in Small reviewed current developments in one area of promise for nanomaterials: protein - based nanomedicine platforms for drug delivery.

«The Evolving Landscape of Drug Products Containing Nanomaterials in the United States,» by Sheetal R. D'Mello et al., Nature Nanotechnology, June 2017.

Two new standards developed by ASTM International Committee E56 on Nanotechnology will assist a variety of users in aspects of nanomaterial measurement.

The resulting fibres, which are the toughest and strongest ever measured, were produced by simply placing the spiders in a box and spraying them with water containing the carbon nanomaterials.

By loading the niobia on a graphene scaffold, Duan and his team achieved performance results that were several times greater than with a thin nanomaterial alone.

The Park Systems Webinar titled Graphene Based Nanomaterials and Films will be given by Professor Rigoberto Advincula of Case Western Reserve University on July 9, 2015 at 9 am PST.

ASTM E2834, Guide for Measurement of Particle Size Distribution of Nanomaterials in Suspension by Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis (NTA), and ASTM E2859, Guide for Size Measurement of Nanoparticles Using Atomic Force Microscopy, are both under the jurisdiction of Subcommittee E56.02 on Physical and Chemical Characterization.

A 3 - dimensional in vitro model of epithelioid granulomas induced by high aspect ratio nanomaterials.

«There are potential technology - based solutions for replacing 13 out of the 14 metals by carbon nanomaterials in their most common applications.

Carbon nanomaterials as potential substitutes for scarce metals by Rickard Arvidsson, Björn A. Sandén.

A chemical engineer by training, his expertise includes biomass pretreatment, enzyme engineering, biofuel cells, nanomaterials, microfluidics, desalination and silica biomineralization.

Led by Prof Coleman, in collaboration with the groups of Prof Georg Duesberg (AMBER) and Prof. Laurens Siebbeles (TU Delft, Netherlands), the team used standard printing techniques to combine graphene nanosheets as the electrodes with two other nanomaterials, tungsten diselenide and boron nitride as the channel and separator (two important parts of a transistor) to form an all - printed, all - nanosheet, working transistor.