Announcements

The Nanomaterials and Devices Innovation Conference 2024 is approaching.

The Nanomaterials and Devices Branch is associated with the Chinese Society for Materials Research, which was established in 2013.

The conference will bring together distinguished scholars, young talents, and entrepreneurial representatives in the field of nanoscience and technology to discuss and exchange views on current issues in the field. The aim is to promote the integration of scientific and technological innovation with industrial innovation and drive the development of the nano-industry in a high-end, intelligent, green, and integrated manner.

Hosted by: Nano Materials and Devices Branch of Chinese Society for Materials Research

                   Wenzhou University

Date: September 20-23, 2024

Location: Grand Plaza Hotel, Wenzhou, China

Conference website: https://conf.sciencemate.com/c/2024NMDID


The conference will feature 10 sub-forums dedicated to exchanging ideas on 10 major academic themes.

More details, please find it here.

Posted: 2024-09-06
 

2024 Special Issues are open for submissions

Authors are encouraged to submit their work to the Special Issues that is open in 2024.

Special Issue 1: Nanochemistry

Special Issue 2: Preparation of Nanostructured Materials 

Special Issue 3: Nanoscience, nano-medicine and bio-nanotechnology

Special Issue 4: Photocatalytic degradation properties

Special Issue 5: Nanotechnology and its application


Posted: 2024-03-06
 

Please follow the new Author Guidelines for your submission!

Please follow the journal's author guidelines and the provided article template to prepare your manuscript.

Starting from Vol.7, No.1, articles will be published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits sharing and adapting the article for any purpose, even commercially.

Posted: 2024-01-26 More...
 

Research News: Decontamination of surface water from organic pollutants using graphene membranes

One of the most important problems nowadays is the contamination of the environment and more specifically of surface and underground waters by toxic substances, e.g., heavy metals and organic pollutants. Shortage of supplies of potable water is occurring in many areas worldwide, owing to the steady increase of the population, yielding to the harsh exploitation of water resources by human activities, which introduce many contaminants, including organic dyes, heavy metal ions, salts of light metals. In order to contrast what has by now already turned into one of the most severe concerns in the world’s community, it is necessary to carry out the decontamination of wastewater. Graphene oxide (GO) is a valid candidate for the absorption and removal of pollutants in water.

Graphene material is gradually being used in the fields of electronic technology and biomedicine due to its properties such as ductility, expandability and flexibility. The author gets efforts to explore some commercial graphene products such as graphene materials, aims to demonstrate a method to monitor the status of such a filter in real time during its operating phases: pollutant adsorption, saturation, and regeneration.

This study first showed that all types of graphene have excellent adsorption properties. This appears to be due to its large available surface area. This experiment provides a reference for exploring low-cost graphene materials and products preparation. With the continuous discovery of the properties of graphene and its composites and the continuous innovation of the preparation process, graphene will be applied to various devices in daily life and become an indispensable part of our lives.

More details, please read the article.

Posted: 2023-07-01
 

2023 Volume 6 Issue 1 is released now!

Volume 6, Issue 1 is now officially released and we are honored to have Prof. Amir Hatami write the Editorial to this issue. Please read here.
Posted: 2023-06-30
 

CAN has been included in the CAS databases!

We are glad to announce that Characterization and Application of Nanomaterials (CAN) has been included in the CAS databases!

 

The response email is as follows: 

 

I am pleased to inform you that Characterization and Application of Nanomaterials [ISSN: 2578-1995], has been found suitable for inclusion in the CAS databases. We will begin coverage with the 2022 issues. We will routinely check the website and put the new issue into our production system.

If you have questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact me.

Best regards,

 

Thanks to all the authors and reviewers!

Posted: 2023-01-31 More...
 

Meet Our New Editor-in-Chief:Prof.Dr. Francesco Tornabene

Francesco Tornabene received from the University of Bologna - Alma Mater Studiorum, a M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering (Curriculum in Structural Mechanics) in 2003. He subsequently received his Ph.D. degree in Structural Mechanics at the University of Bologna in 2007. He has been an Assistant Professor and Lecturer since 2012, and from 2022, he has been an Associate Professor. For a long time his scientific interests include the Structural Mechanics, Solid Mechanics, Innovative and Smart Materials, Computational Mechanics and Numerical Techniques, Damage and Fracture Mechanics. He is author of more than 280 scientific publications and 11 books, and collaborates with many national or international researchers and professors all over the world, as visible from his scientific production. In the last years he received different important awards, see e.g. “Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics” (years 2018, 2019, 2020).

We express our sincere thanks to Prof. Francesco Tornabene for his support and look forward to his guidance in helping Characterization and Application of Nanomaterials reach new milestones.

Posted: 2022-12-12
 

Research News: The state-of-the-art of piezoelectric energy harvesting

The global energy crisis and environmental pollutions caused mainly by the increased consumption of nonrenewable energy sources prompted researchers to explore alternative energy technologies that can harvest energies available in the ambient environment. Mechanical energy is the most ubiquitous ambient energy.Piezoelectric transduction is the prominent mechanical energy harvesting mechanism, Thus, piezoelectric energy harvesting has received the utmost interest by the scientific community.Advancements of micro and nanoscale materials and manufacturing processes have enabled the fabrication of piezoelectric generators.

Posted: 2022-02-09 More...
 

Research News: Bamboo inspires faster battery recharging

Scientists from Queensland University of Technology have developed a new way to boost the efficiency of batteries with electrodes that can be recharged at a much faster rate based on the unique properties of bamboo. The study, which furthers research into 2D nanomaterials for the very fast transport of ions through a battery, was inspired by a water-carrying membrane inside bamboo that allows it to be the fastest growing plant in the world.

The lab of Ziqi Sun has been studying how best to mimic the structural and optical properties of natural objects – such as seashells that have inspired advanced optical thin films, fish scales that have inspired multifunctional nano-coatings – to develop sustainable energy solutions from low-dimensional nanomaterials.

Posted: 2021-09-09 More...
 

Research News: A new perspective on the application of nanomaterials to tumors

What is the nanomaterial?

Nanometer materials refer to materials whose structural unit sizes are in the range of 1 nanometer to 100 nanometers. This new type of material was discovered by scientists in the middle of the last century. Due to its unique size and structure, this new type of material has acquired unusual capabilities.

Posted: 2021-05-20 More...
 

Research News: CNT is the strongest material , with astonishing mechanical properties

Research in carbon nanotubes (CNTs) has gained enormous interest in nanotechnology and materials science due to its remarkable physical and mechanical properties. 

Posted: 2021-03-06 More...
 

Research News: Emission Properties of Carbon Nanotubes

One of the most promising applications of CNTs is in field emission (FE) devices. High aspect ratio and atomically sharp radius of apex curvature of the CNTs enhance the local field and lower the threshold field for electron emission. 

 

Posted: 2020-11-23 More...
 

Research News: What Are MOFs?

In recent years, a particularly attractive and novel strategy has become available for the fabrication of photoresponsive, porous, and crystalline molecular solids from appropriately functionalized chromophoric linkers. 

 

Posted: 2020-09-25 More...
 

Research News: Advances and Applications of Diamond-like Nanocomposite

Diamond-like Nanocomposite (DLN) coatings are amorphous, hard and wear resistant coatings, deposited using a plasma-assisted CVD process. These coatings consist of two interpenetrating networks, one being a diamond-like carbon (a-C:H) network and the other a glass-like a-Si:O network. 

Posted: 2020-03-15 More...
 

Research News: Nanocomposites are an important resource in the 21st century

In recent years, advances in nanotechnology have promoted the development of reinforcements with dimensions at the nano-scale (10−9 m). This dimensional shift has opened new possibilities for altering physical properties of polymer matrices (mechanical, electrical, thermal, etc.) by incorporating relatively small amounts of nanofillers (several weight percent or less) .

Posted: 2020-03-10 More...
 

Research News: lead halide perovskites are sensitive under light

Organic-inorganic hybrid metal halide perovskites, an important class of crystalline materials with excellent low-temperature solution processability and band structure tunability, have been known for decades. They have received great attention in recent years for applications in various types of optoelectronic devices, including photovoltaic cells, light emitting diodes and optically pumped lasers.

Posted: 2019-11-20 More...
 

Research News: Illinois engineers protect artifacts by graphene gilding

Gilding is the process of coating intricate artifacts with precious metals. Ancient Egyptians and Chinese coated their sculptures with thin metal films using gilding—and these golden sculptures have resisted corrosion, wear, and environmental degradation for thousands of years. The middle and outer coffins of Tutankhamun, for instance, are gold leaf gilded, as are many other ancient treasures.

In a new study, Sameh Tawfick, an assistant professor of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, inspired by this ancient , has added a single layer of carbon atoms, known as , on top of  leaves—doubling the protective quality of gilding against wear and tear.



Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-09-illinois-artifacts-graphene-gilding.html#jCp
Posted: 2018-09-12
 

Research News: Carbon nanodots do an ultrafine job with in vitro lung tissue

Epidemiological studies have established a strong correlation between inhaling ultrafine particles from incomplete combustion and respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. Still, relatively little is known about the mechanisms behind how air particulates affect human health. New work with carbon nanodots seeks to provide the first model of how ultrafine carbon-based particles interact with the lung tissues.

An international group of researchers created a 3-D lung cell model system to investigate how carbon-based combustion byproducts behave as they interact with human epithelial . In Biointerphases, an AVS journal, the investigators discovered that the surface properties of the carbon nanodot's properties and aggregation patterns affected their distribution in a lab-grown copy of the lung's barrier layer, the epithelium. The carbon nanodots served as representatives for air pollution particles.



Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-09-carbon-nanodots-ultrafine-job-vitro.html#jCp
Posted: 2018-09-12
 

Research News: Chemists develop nanocatalysts for continuous biofuel synthesis

A chemist from RUDN synthesized new catalysts with ruthenium (Ru) nanoparticles for producing biofuel from organic biowaste. Nanocatalysts support more intensive and sustained reactions than the compounds currently available in the market. The results of the study were published in the ChemSusChem journal.

Rafael Luque, an external specialist from RUDN, works on the synthesis of gamma-valerolactone (GVL) together with his Chinese and Spanish colleagues. This colorless liquid can be obtained from food waste or harvesting leftovers. GVL may be used as a safe solvent or an additive to gasoline or may be distilled into hydrocarbons, "green fuel" for internal combustion engines.



Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-09-chemists-nanocatalysts-biofuel-synthesis.html#jCp
Posted: 2018-09-12
 
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