Berkeley Lab-led research could guide the development of bacteria-resistant materials.
Micro-/Nanotechnology
Nanoparticles enable eye drops for macular degeneration treatment
Drugs used to treat blindness-causing disorders could be successfully administered by eye drops rather than unpleasant and expensive eye injections.
Cu(In,Ga)Se2 outperforms multicrystalline silicon
Cu(In,Ga)Se2 (CIGS) thin-film solar cells have now reached a high efficiency level with a new record efficiency of 20.8 %.
Book review: Nanomaterials in Tissue Engineering
SUNY professor Balaji Sitharaman reviews Nanomaterials in Tissue Engineering.
Easy and rapid sintering technique for microbeads
Researchers reduced the sintering time for an adsorbent by a factor of 60 and improved the specific surface area.
Happy 60th birthday, Prof. Grigoriy A. Mun!
Dr Vitaliy Khutoryanskiy of the University of Reading looks back on the career to date of his friend and mentor Prof. Grigoriy A. Mun.
Book Review: Nanomaterials for Medical Applications
Professor Bengt Fadeel of Stockholm’s Karolinska Institutet reviews Nanomaterials for Medical Applications by Zoraida Aguilar.
Multi-spectral materials in the visible, infrared, and terahertz
The combination of a plasmonic color filter and a terahertz metamaterial absorber exhibits unique resonant phenomena over several decades of wavelengths.
Todd Siler’s Nano World – Think Billionths of a Meter
Guest writer Professor Geoff Ozin tells us about the inaugural ArtNano show which will be held at The Armory Show, Pier 94, New York, on March 6-9th.
Hyperuniform disordered photonic materials with a complete band gap
Due to their unique properties these fascinating materials are predicted to possess a complete photonic bandgap without any long-range order.
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