Nano News: 04/06/15

Engineers invent two-dimensional liquid

Where water and oil meet, a two-dimensional world exists. This interface presents a potentially useful set of properties for chemists and engineers, but getting anything more complex than a soap molecule to stay there and behave predictably remains a challenge. Recently, a team from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in the School...

Application of egg white in production of nanoparticles

Researchers from Mashhad University of Medical Sciences proposed the application of egg white as the size-controlling agent in the production of oxide nanoparticles. The researchers produced a type of nanoparticle at laboratorial scale in the presence of egg white through a simple method based on the...

Researchers to develop a nanotechnology lubricant suitable for space applications

The Estonian Materials Technologies Competence Centre (MATECC) has just signed an agreement with the European Space Agency. Researchers of the centre and of the University of Tartu will start to develop a nanotechnology lubricant suitable for extreme conditions. Shuttles and equipment used in space consist of numerous elements and have several friction-prone...