Nanomaterials news, April 2020

Carbon nanotubes can identify stressed plants

Researchers have developed a carbon nanotube-based sensor that can track how plants respond to stresses such as injury, infection and light damage.

Light-emitting hybrid promises erasable data storage

data can be written and erased in novel light-emitting hybrid combining bioimaging organic dyes and luminescent solid-state metal clusters

Carbon nanotubes could create polymer composite for unmanned vehicles

Researchers have discovered that polymers filled with carbon nanotubes could improve how unmanned military vehicles dissipate energy.

Plate-based carbon nanolattice proves stronger than diamond

Using 3D laser printing, researchers have fabricated plate-based carbon nanolattices that are stronger than diamond.

Nanofibers split up in the body to deliver drugs

biocompatible drug-carrying nanofiber that splits into tiny nanoparticles once inside the body could offer a new strategy for anticancer therapy

New silicon-germanium alloy could light up photonics

Researchers have developed an hexagonal silicon-germanium alloy that can emit light, which could prove of great use for photonics.

Special Issue on Advanced methods of Machine Learning/ Artificial intelligence applied to the discovery and design of materials - Call for Papers

Extreme Mechanics Letters (EML) announces a weekly webinar series

Seeking simpler tests for viruses

The coronavirus pandemic highlights the importance of testing for viruses; a simple physical procedure might make it easier, cheaper and quicker

Materials Letters - Updated Aims & Scopes

Laser-texturing can make metal surfaces lethal to bacteria

By using a laser to fabricate nanoscale patterns, researchers could potentially make the surface of metals such as copper lethal to bacteria.

From brittle to flexible at a stretch

Scientists have created a flexible membrane from a normally brittle complex oxide, and shown that stretching can change its electronic properties.

Indium-carbon bonding for catalysis

Indium-carbon bonding for catalysis

Crumpled graphene can detect DNA without amplification

Researchers have found that crumpling graphene makes it more than 10,000 times more sensitive to DNA by creating electrical ‘hotspots’.

Layered nanotubes produce solar fuel tiles

Scientists have developed an artificial photosynthesis system that utilizes nanotubes made of layers of cobalt oxide, silica and titanium dioxide.

Announcing the launch of Best Paper Prizes on Elseviers Leading Polymer Journals

Semiconductors can show facets of metals and superconductors

Researchers have shown that the crystal structure at the surface of semiconductor materials can make them behave like metals and even superconductors.

New rubber-like material could replace human tissue

Researchers have created a new rubber-like material based on plexiglass that could act as a replacement for human tissue in medical procedures.

Machine learning with synthetic data improves indentation tests

Utilizing 'hybrid data', a new analytical technique can improve the estimation of mechanical properties of metallic materials from indention tests.