An international group of researchers has managed to double the strength of steel by incorporating a planar array of core-shell nanoparticles that consist of a Ti-C core and a Mo-V shell. The ...

Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is a versatile chemical in modern industry, widely applied in many different fields. To date, H2O2 is industrially manufactured by an indirect process that involves the ...

A class of ultrasmall fluorescent core-shell silica nanoparticles developed at Cornell is showing an unexpected ability to rally the immune system against melanoma and dramatically improve the ...

A transmission electron microscopy image of a core–shell cubic nanoparticle. The new core-shell nanoparticles are highly versatile and are used in printing sensor arrays that measure levels of ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Semiconductor nanoparticles, also known as quantum dots (QDs), have been studied for their size-tunable electronic and optical properties for over 30 years. Applications have been ...

A recent article in Nature Communications describes the direct observation of core–shell metallic nanowire growth using advanced imaging techniques. These methods enable visualization of atomic-scale ...

(Nanowerk News) UCI researchers have devised a new method of dynamically forming a platinum shell on a metallic alloy nanoparticle core, a development that may lead to better materials for oxygen ...

Nanoparticles have diverse applications in modern science and industry, powering technologies like quantum-dot displays, nanocatalysts and drug delivery. Their unique physicochemical properties, which ...

Physicists and materials scientists from Tomsk Polytechnic University, as part of an international scientific collaboration, have developed lead-free nanodevices for accelerated tissue regeneration.