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Chemistry World
October 16, 2015
Emma Stephen |
Pressure brings liquid marbles to a sticky end Scientists in Japan have developed an adhesive that starts out as powder but transforms into glue for hard-to-reach places when pressed. This represents a promising application for liquid marble technology.   |
Technology Research News
May 7, 2003 |
Metal expands electrically Researchers from Germany and Austria have found a way to make metal expand and contract like piezoceramics, which are commonly used as actuators in inkjet printers and automobile fuel injection nozzles. The expanding metal, however requires less voltage than piezoceramics. |
Technology Research News
May 4, 2005 |
Surface Tension Drives Nanomotor Researchers have found a way to harness surface tension to drive nanomachines. |
Chemistry World
June 5, 2011
James Mitchell Crow |
Nanoparticles scrub up a treat in hot water bath Upping the catalytic activity of gold nanoparticles can be as simple as a good wash in hot water, UK chemists have shown. |
Chemistry World
February 3, 2011
Hayley Birch |
Nanoparticle studies guide coating design A new study provides guidance for designing nanoparticle coatings based on the particles' size and the environment they are to be used in. The research could help scientists create more effective nanoparticle drug carriers. |
Chemistry World
September 20, 2012
Jessica Cocker |
Biological fate of nanoparticles in the body Nanoparticles are extremely difficult to detect and measure once they are distributed in a biological system. Now, Spanish scientists have developed a novel way for measuring their biodistribution. |
Chemistry World
October 25, 2013
James Urquhart |
Water droplets warped into weird shapes US scientists have discovered that self-assembling nanoparticles can lock water droplets into different shapes. The team suggests the work could be useful for several applications including microfluidic devices, sensors and drug delivery. |
Chemistry World
November 1, 2012
Laura Howes |
Printing out new catalysts Chemists at the University of California, Santa Barbara, US, and Zhejiang University in China, have created special 'inks' made of colloidal nanoparticles of different metal precursors and polymers that direct the formation of the resulting nanoparticle structures. |
Chemistry World
July 4, 2013
Daniel Johnson |
Sublime Leidenfrost In the Leidenfrost effect, a liquid collides with a surface much hotter than its boiling point, forming a protective cushion of gas that also becomes an insulating layer, slowing further evaporation. |
Chemistry World
October 1, 2013
Patrick Walter |
Malvern sizes up Nanosight fit Malvern Instruments has bought nanoparticle characterization firm Nanosight. Nanosight's principal technology provides measurements of nanoparticle size down to 10nm. |
Chemistry World
February 18, 2009
Nina Notman |
Single Nanocatalyst Behaviour Revealed Before you can design the perfect nanoparticle catalyst, you first need to understand the fundamental science that governs their reactivity. U.S. Scientists have said they have done just that. |
Chemistry World
June 21, 2007
Michael Gross |
A Mirror for the Moon Cosmologists have said that a Moon-based telescope with a parabolic mirror made of a rotating liquid would be ideally suited to studying very distant structures of the universe. Researchers using a chemical approach have now succeeded in creating a liquid based system. |
Chemistry World
September 23, 2008
Simon Hadlington |
Nanoparticles Hide Behind Protein Cloak Polymer nanoparticles suspended in human blood become cloaked in plasma proteins, new research has shown. |
