​Uses of Nanomaterials in Bio-Inspired Soft Robotics

Nano-sized particles exist in nature and they can be created with a variety of materials and products, like silver or carbon. Nanomaterials are characterized by their small size and are measured in nanometers. Engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) are materials that are engineered on small scale and they have exceptional electrical, mechanical, and optical properties, which exhibit

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Synthesis of Reduced Graphene Oxide

Graphene oxide is basically an electrically insulating material that is reduced from graphene and is considered as a highly conducting material with numerous applications in the fields of sensors, supercapacitors, nanocomposites, and nanoelectronics. There are a lot of methods to synthesize reduced graphene oxide. Graphene oxide layers contain numerous functional groups serving in the oxidization

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Nano Cobalt Powder(Nano Co)

High-density magnetic recording material: It has the advantages of high recording density, high coercive force, high signal-to-noise ratio and good oxidation resistance, which can greatly improve the performance of magnetic tape and large-capacity hard and soft disks;

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Flake Aluminum Powder

Production by dry method without solution, our flake aluminum powder is more environment-friendly. Depending on the different processing technology, two different kinds of application specification :leafing and non-leafing which can be well used in water-based or oil-based coating film layer.  

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Nano Metal Powder

With the continuous improvement of the preparation of nanometer metal powder technology, nanometer metal powder is widely used in machinery, metallurgy, chemical industry and other industries, and plays an immeasurable role.

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Nano Iron Powder(Nano Fe)

Wave-absorbing materials: High-performance millimeter wave stealth materials, visible light-infrared stealth materials, structural stealth materials and mobile phone radiation shielding materials.

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Cellulose

Nanocellulose refers to cellulose in the nanometre scale and is a material derived from natural materials including plants and bacteria. But it can also be produced from sugars through biotechnological processes using bacteria that give the product its’ final name – bacterial nanocellulose. Production processes in the 1980’s were energy-intensive, but substantial progress has been

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Cerium Dioxide

Cerium dioxide (CeO2) has a variety of applications. For example ceria nanoparticles are used in catalytic converters in the automotive industry to convert harmful carbon monoxide to less harmful carbon dioxide. The semi-conductor industry uses cerium dioxide nanoparticles as fine abrasive and polishing agent in the manufacturing of computer chips. Non-nanoscaled cerium dioxide can improve the light

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Iron and iron oxides

Iron is the highest occurring metal found in the earth crust. Iron ore is the starting material to produce iron oxides which are used in various applications ranging from the production of steel to data storage devices. Currently applications of iron oxide nanoparticles in medical uses, such as contrast agents or tumour therapeutic agents, are being tested.

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Fullerenes

Fullerenes, also called bucky balls, are a very new modification of pure carbon and their form resembles soccer balls. They consist out of 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons with a carbon atom in each of edges of this lattice structure. There are only very few applications of this new material class.   How can I

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Graphene

Graphene is a one-atom thick layer of carbon and is considered to be a new wonder molecule. Its production became possible only very recently and graphene is now available for various applications. The term graphene is often applied to many members of the family of graphene-based materials the two most important members being graphene and

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Indium Tin Oxides

Indium tin oxide (ITO) or tin-doped indium oxide is a mixture of indium oxide and tin oxide in which the tin component can contribute up to one-fifth of the material composition. Indium tin oxide is a transparent (see-through) material with electrical conductivity. Indium tin oxide is applied mainly as a film to create transparent conductive coatings in the

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Carbon Black

Carbon Black or carbon soot is a material with high economic importance containing pure carbon. Carbon Black is produced through specific combustion processes and the production of this material can be traced back more than one hundred years. It is used in many products including car tyres, printer toner, dyes for leather or textiles and

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Carbon Nanotubes

Since the discovery of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in 1991, this group of carbon molecules has been considered as a wonder material due to some interesting properties. They are stronger than steel but very light in weight. Depending on the production method, the nanotubes can be conducting in nature, semi-conducting or even isolating, which makes this

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Nanoclays

Nanoclays (clay minerals) can be extracted from natural sources and used thereafter. The layered structure enables the material to either swell or shrink depending on its uptake capacity for water. In addition nanoclays are not flammable and the plastics industry uses this feature to improve fire safety of their products. Integrating nanoclays into the plastic

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Silicon Dioxide

Silicon dioxide is the main component of beach sand and is commonly known as quartz in its pure crystalline form. For industrial purposes the amorphous (non-crystalline form) silicon dioxide or silica is of greater importance. Amorphous silica can be found in a range of products including varnishes, glues and paints. It is also used in foods and

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Strontium Carbonate

Strontium carbonate (SrCO3) was formerly used in large quantities in the manufacturing of CRT TVs (CRT = cathode-ray tubes) as strontium carbonate together with other compounds absorbs and reduces significantly (to almost zero) the X-rays generated from the television tubes. Nowadays, modern flat-panel devices have almost completely replaced these tubes. Currently, strontium carbonates are being

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