Aluminum nanoparticles absorb and scatter light with remarkable efficiency due to surface plasmon resonance, a phenomenon that describes the collective oscillation of electrons on the metal ...

Naomi Halas’ lab of nanotechnology at Rice University has discovered an innovative method to enhance the catalytic capabilities of aluminum nanoparticles. This was achieved by annealing the ...

Hydrogen fuel is promising, and while there’s plenty of hydrogen in the air and water, the problem is extracting it. Researchers have developed a way to use aluminum nanoparticles to rip ...

Micro-emulsion processes are often used to produce nanoparticles for pharmaceutical and cosmetics applications. An additional process that is based on self-organized growth with templates and coatings ...

They used paraffin wax as the phase-change material (PCM), incorporating various levels of aluminum oxide (Al₂O₃) and zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles. They also developed a prediction model.

For instance, opaque substances become transparent (copper); inert materials become catalysts (platinum); stable materials turn combustible (aluminum); solids turn into liquids at room temperature ...

Synthesis and fabrication of functional and hybrid nanowires and nanoparticles; Using self-assembly or directed assembly techniques to integrate these nano-building blocks into ordered 2D and 3D ...

Nanotechnology close nanotechnologyThe use of nanoparticles in technology. is the use and control of very small structures that are 1 to 100 nanometres in size. Nanotechnology does bring possible ...

[Ted Yapo] shared a method of easily and conveniently soldering to aluminum, which depends on a little prep work to end up only slightly more complex than soldering to copper. A typical way to ...

A zinc oxide nanoparticle has a diameter of 32 nm. The diameter of a zinc atom is 0.28 nm. Estimate how many times larger the nanoparticle is compared to a zinc atom. A cube-shaped nanoparticle ...