Researchers fabricate controllable scaffolds from functionalised Kappa carrageenan, a naturally occurring polymer.
Micro-/Nanotechnology
Changing our material future, layer by layer
Researchers are aiming to develop a new class of materials with remarkable properties using one atom-thick substances such as graphene in a new collaborative project.
Food additive enables printed materials for soft robotics
University of Wollogong researchers have printed materials which can actuate and strain gauge.
Synthetic and biological nanoparticles combined to produce new metamaterials
Scientists from Aalto University, Finland, have succeeded in organising virus particles, protein cages and nanoparticles into crystalline materials.
Carbon-Nanotube-Coated Ultrasound Acts as Invisible Knife for Noninvasive Surgery
University of Michigan researchers develop focused ultrasound technique for use in microsurgery.
Research Team Wins Feynman Prize for Advancing Scanning Probe Microscopy
Gerhard Meyer, Leo Gross, and Jascha Repp win 2012 Feynman Prize for Experiment.
Researchers Develop Nanotech Snow-Depth Sensor
Device is based on Norwegian radar technology and already finding practical applications.
Novel Nanoparticles for Easier Biomarker Detection
A new technology developed at MIT may help to make biomarker detection, and cancer diagnostics, much easier.
Hybrid tunnel may help guide severed nerves back to health
Design to guide the reconnection of severed nerve endings may aid treatment of patients who have suffered extensive nerve trauma.
New MPIE Department to Study Structure and Nano-/Micromechanics of Materials
New department at the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung will be headed by Prof Gerhard Dehm.
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