Researchers may have opened the door to a simpler approach for the fabrication of plasmonic materials -- one of the hottest new fields in high tech -- by inducing polyhedral-shaped silver nanocrystals ...
(Nanowerk News) The question of how many polyhedral nanocrystals of silver can be packed into millimeter-sized supercrystals may not be burning on many lips but the answer holds importance for one of ...
Nanomedicine. 2014;9(1):121-134. Table 1. Nonspherical nanoparticles of various shapes fabricated in recent years. Shape Types Materials Methods Ref. 2D polygonal ...
Similar to molecular engineering where structural diversity is used to create more property variations for application explorations, the architectural engineering of heterogeneous metallic ...
(Nanowerk News) The 1966 movie Fantastic Voyage presented a vision of the future that includes tiny machines gliding through the body and repairing injuries. Almost 50 years later, scientists are ...
Like cheerleaders forming a human pyramid, many particles might be able to assemble themselves into organized superstructures, a new study has found. Rather than actually manufacturing countless tiny ...
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue University researchers have developed an algorithm that quantifies and analyzes shape changes in puzzle piece-shaped plant cells, providing insights into the small-scale ...
A research team led by Prof. HU Xiaoye from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has successfully synthesized high-quality boride ceramic powders with an ...