Understanding the interactions, permeability, and partitioning of drug delivery systems in ocular tissues can improve the drug retention time and bioavailability.
Micro-/Nanotechnology
Metavalent Bonding: Materials on the Edge
Metavalent bonding shows physically observable features that are “between those of covalency and metallicity, but distinctly different from both”.
Printing Electronic Components like Newspapers
Roll-to-roll laser-induced superplasticity, a new fabrication method, prints metals at nanoscale for making electronic devices.
Carbon Nanotubes for Better Li-Ion Cells
A coating of single-walled carbon nanotubes improves the performance of li-ion cell cathodes: They show longer lifetimes and stable capacities even at very high rates.
Graphene Tracks for Aluminum Trains: Nanomaterials Engineering
Aluminum clusters move along graphene tracks, controlled by applied electric currents, in work by Spanish and Dutch researchers.
Powering the Planet with Energy Nanomaterials?
How can nanomaterials make a difference in the grand challenge: efficient and green global scale production, storage and use of energy? Professor Geoffrey Ozin from the University of Toronto gives his response to this question.
Graphene’s brothers and sisters
A set of twelve graphene-like materials is simulated regarding their stability, structural, and electronic properties.
Gold Nanoparticle Network Growth
Assembly of metallic nanoparticles into chains or plasmonic networks is affected by temperature and kinetics.
Cover Story: More than Just Pretty! Well-Defined Catalysts for Fuel Cells
Systematic insights into well-defined platinum-alloy nanoparticles promise cheaper and more-efficient fuel cells.
Nanochemistry – When It Rains It Pores
Professor Geoffrey Ozin from the University of Toronto reviews porous materials—how the research goals have varied over the years, where we are today, and what these materials may offer in the future.
How to Spot Monolayers
UK scientists develop method to produce and identify boron nitride monolayers like graphene using simple laboratory techniques.
Bionanoelectronics – No Frankenstein
Science-fiction becomes science fact: How bionanoelectronics will revolutionize the world through medical and computational advances.
Nanoparticles with Plasma
Copper nanoparticles can be made due to the interaction of an argon plasma with CuCl (CuCl2) ionic liquid solutions.
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