Nanomaterials found in consumer and health-care products can pass from the bloodstream to the brain side of a blood-brain barrier model with varying ease depending on their shape - creating potential ...

LMU researcher Professor Alexander Urban and his team have developed a tool that could revolutionize the design of new ...

(Nanowerk News) Iron oxide nanoparticles are used in sentinel node detection, iron replacement therapy and other biomedical applications. New work looks to understand how these materials age, and how ...

Cellulose nanomaterials, derived from abundant renewable biomass, have attracted considerable attention owing to their exceptional mechanical properties and sustainability credentials. At the ...

Bioinspired nanomaterials are synthetic materials designed to mimic the structure, properties, and functions of biological systems at the nanoscale. By learning from nature's time-tested strategies, ...

Researchers for the first time have found that the electric field changes the fracture toughness of nanomaterials. Mechanical properties of nanomaterials can be altered due to the application of ...

Scientists at the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are learning how the properties of water molecules on the surface of metal oxides can be used to better control these minerals ...

MXenes are 2D nanomaterials that exhibit high conductivity, high surface area, high functionalization, a site of hydroxide, and many other interesting properties. They were only discovered in 2011, ...

Consequently, in 2013, the European Union set up a project called SCAFFOLD (Scaffolding) to analyze the life cycle and ...

In this interview, Dr. Aphrodite Tomou, Technical Manager at Goodfellow, talks to AZoM and explains why Nanomaterials are superior in comparison to other conventional materials for the automotive ...

Mechanical properties of nanomaterials can be altered due to the application of voltage, University of Wyoming researchers have discovered. The researchers, led by TeYu Chien, a UW assistant professor ...