Materials news, September 2012

Novel DNA barcode

Glass half full

Cheaper NFO thin films

Researchers call for specialty metals recycling

Metalysis produces titanium powder directly from sand

Metalysis, the UK-based specialist metals company, has developed a process that can change natural rutile sands directly into titanium metal powder in a si

The path to defect-free thin films

Optical connections

Low-powered nanotweezers for cellular studies

Memristors based on transparent electronics

Under-twisted DNA origami

CSIR buys LENS system for AM

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in South Africa has bought an Optomec laser engineered net shaping (LENS) system for metal additi

X-rays unravel mysterious degradation

Printing 3D in seconds

Rust never sleeps

Nano-velcro detects water-borne toxic metals

First all-optical nanowire switch

Improved nanoparticles deliver drugs into brain

Sliding metals show fluidlike behavior

LEDs are #1

Third International Conference on Multifunctional, Hybrid and Nanomaterials

Harper and Orbite work together to purify alumina

Harper International has announced a new project with Canadian clean tech company Orbite Aluminae Inc to develop two high temperature systems in series for

Super stretchy super gel

Every atom counts in graphene formation

New reference material could aid nano-toxicity research

X-rays probe magnetism in superconductors

Counterpart nanoart

Electronics, at the molecular scale

Synchronized lasers measure how light changes matter

Nanoresonators may improve cell phones

*New Release* Top 10 News from August 2012

New, cheaper nanolithography technique

Wirelessly powered cardiac device

World’s first HIV nanomedicines

Magnetic vortex reveals key to spintronic speed limit