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Nanomaterials news, February 2015

Adding about one per cent of nanoparticles by weight makes the solar cells more efficient, according to the findings of a team of scientists.

27 February 2015
Announcing Engineering Advances

A new initiative involving Elsevier’s engineering journals, editors, authors and referees – titled Engineering Advances.

26 February 2015Joe D'Angelo

Adding MgO nanoparticles to polymer composite scaffolds helps bone-forming cells stick.

25 February 2015Cordelia Sealy

Scientists are interested in using gels to deliver drugs designed to release their payload over a specified time period.

24 February 2015

University of Pennsylvania researchers have made an advance in manufacturing one such material, molybdenum disulphide.

24 February 2015

Specialized peptides binds with nanoparticles to help improve lithium-ion batteries.

19 February 2015Laurie Donaldson

Biomimetic nanosheets based on microbial armor.

15 February 2015David Bradley

Scientists have shown that gold nanotubes have many applications in fighting cancer.

13 February 2015

13 February 2015Baptiste Gault

Welcome to the Virtual Microscope, the integrated browser based slide viewer that provides access to high resolution whole slide images.

9 February 2015Zara Preston

The 2015 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering has been awarded to the ground-breaking chemical engineer Dr Robert Langer.

5 February 2015

Materials Today lead the way to make it simple for authors to publicly share peer-reviewed, curated, formatted, indexed, citable raw research data.

4 February 2015Baptiste Gault

We’re celebrating the International Year of Light with a video contest where we ask you to tell us what light means to you.

4 February 2015Zara Preston

Using a medium to compress and shorten intense laser pulses.

3 February 2015Laurie Donaldson

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