Materials with porous features that have been particularly ordered on the nano-scale have key applications in drug delivery systems, diagnostics, optics, cosmetics, catalysis, coatings, bio-separation ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Mesoporous materials have emerged as a frontier of materials science, thanks to their unique combination of high surface area, tunable pore sizes, and ability to host functional ...

Using a specially developed etching apparatus, researchers produced mesoporous silicon layers with countless tiny pores and investigated their electrical and thermal conductivity. (Nanowerk News) ...

Along with biocompatibility, MSNs boast a high surface area and facile surface tunability. The former has led to MSNs being described as "nanosponges", as their high surface area allows particles to ...

insights from industryDr. Philippe Saint-Cricq-RiviereSenior ScientistnanoComposix - A Fortis Life Sciences Company In this interview, News-Medical talks to Philippe Riviere, Senior Scientist at ...

Silicon is the best-known semiconductor material. However, controlled nanostructuring drastically alters the material's properties. Using a specially developed etching apparatus, a team at HZB has now ...

CORNELL UNIVERSITY researchers have developed a synthesis for well-ordered metallic materials that feature pores in the previously unattainable tens-of-nanometers size range (Science 2008, 320, 1748).

In 2012, researchers from the Division of Nanotechnology and Functional Materials at Uppsala University in Sweden created Upsalite®, a form of mesoporous magnesium carbonate (MMC) that until then, had ...

Scientists in Japan and Europe investigated the long-term stability of perovskite solar cells utilizing layers of mesoporous carbon, building on previous work demonstrating the strong potential of ...