Friday, March 20, 2015

NIOSH nanotechnology research highlighted at the 2015 Meeting of the Society of Toxicology

Nanotechnology will be a major focus for NIOSH at the SOT annual meeting. NIOSH researchers will give more than 30 presentations about the latest science addressing the potential hazards of nanomaterials.

National Nanotechnology Initiative publishes report assessing the status of EHS risk science

Report examines progress three years after the release of the 2011 NNI EHS Research Strategy.


Putting batteries on stage spotlights performance at the nanoscale

New device lets scientists take images of lithium battery as it works and recharges.


New transitory form of silica observed

Scientists were able to discover five new forms of silica under extreme pressures at room temperature.


The universal nature of three-body attraction

A study of the interaction among three objects in peculiar resonant systems uncovers an unexpected universality.


You can't play checkers with charge ordering

Physicists observed the shape of a strange phenomenon that interferes with high-temperature superconductivity called charge ordering, discovering that it is stripy, not checkered, and settling a long-standing debate in the field.