Inorganic pigments producer Nubiola, Barcelona, Spain, is partnering with Tekniker, a technology center based in the Basque Country, Spain, on the NANOPIGMY project.
A nanoscale coating that's at least 95 percent air repels the broadest range of liquids of any material in its class, causing them to bounce off the treated surface, according to the University of Michigan engineering researchers who developed it.
The nighttime twinkling of fireflies has inspired scientists to modify a light-emitting diode (LED) so it is more than one and a half times as efficient as the original.
Iron nanoparticles encapsulated in a rust-preventing polymer coating could hold potential for cleaning up groundwater contaminated with toxic chemicals.
In Harvard’s Pierce Hall, the surface of a small germanium-coated gold sheet shines vividly in crimson. A centimeter to the right, where the same metallic coating is literally only about 20 atoms thicker, the surface is a dark blue, almost black. The colors form the logo of the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), where researchers have demonstrated a new way to customize the color of metal surfaces by exploiting a completely overlooked optical phenomenon.
Magnolia Solar Corp. (Magnolia Solar), developer of thin-film solar cell technologies employing nanostructured materials and designs, announced that Dr. Roger E. Welser, the Chief Technology Officer of its wholly owned subsidiary, Magnolia Solar Inc., presented a paper at the 2012 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston, MA, entitled "Nanostructured Transparent Conductive Oxides for Photovoltaic Applications," as part of a special session on photovoltaic technologies.
A joint project between New Zealand-based companies GNS Science and Resene Paints will develop a new low-cost way of producing a powder containing metal oxide nanoparticles that can be readily incorporated into existing paint manufacturing methods.
Nanocoatings are opening up new market opportunities in the global coatings arena. Properties such as corrosion resistance, flame retardancy, UV stability, gloss retention, and chemical and mechanical properties are improved significantly using nanomaterials.
Rice University researchers have settled a long-standing controversy over the mechanism by which silver nanoparticles, the most widely used nanomaterial in the world, kill bacteria.
