New cheap and efficient electrode for splitting water

Scientists have developed a highly efficient oxygen-producing electrode for splitting water that has the potential to be scaled up for industrial production of the clean energy fuel, hydrogen. The new technology is based on an inexpensive, specially coated foam material that lets the bubbles of oxygen escape quickly.

'Smart bandage' detects bed sores before they are visible to doctors

Engineers are developing a new type of bandage that does far more than stanch the bleeding from a paper cut or scraped knee. Thanks to advances in flexible electronics, the researchers have created a new 'smart bandage' that uses electrical currents to detect early tissue damage from pressure ulcers, or bedsores, before they can be seen by human eyes - and while recovery is still possible.

Can carbon nanotubes help to avert our water crisis?

Carbon nanotube membranes have a bright future in addressing the world's growing need to purify water from the sea, researchers say in a new study.

Constructing integrated graphene-based artificial nacre

Graphene oxide, a water-soluble derivative of graphene with many functional groups on the surface, is one of the best candidates for fabricating bioinspired layered materials, because functional surface groups enable interface designs that can improve the interfacial strength in composites.

Cage-opening fullerene provide fluorescent graphene quantum dots

In this work, fullerene C60 is used as starting material, due to its well-defined dimension, to produce very small graphene quantum dots.

API and NINT to keynote 2015 Nanotechnology for Renewable Nanomaterials conference

TAPPI announced that Dr. Theodora Retsina, CEO of American Process, Inc. (API) and Dr. Maria D?lorio, Executive Director of the National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT) and Professor of Physics and Assistant Vice President of Research at the University of Alberta, will be keynote speakers at the 2015 International Conference on Nanotechnology for Renewable Nanomaterials, in Atlanta, Georgia, June 22-25.

Spherical nucleic acids set stage for new paradigm in nanomedicine drug development

Researchers have shown that spherical nucleic acids (SNAs) can be used as potent drugs to effectively train the immune system to fight disease, by either boosting or dampening the immune response. The initial treatment triggers a cell-specific immune response all over the body.