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Smart lighting system based on quantum dots more accurately reproduces daylight

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers have designed smart, color-controllable white light devices from quantum dots—tiny semiconductors just a few billionths of a meter in size—which are more efficient and have better color saturation than standard LEDs, and can dynamicall...

Aug 3, 2022

Nano in Size, Big on Sustainability and Performance Quantum Science Achieves Leading Device Performance for Lead-free SWIR

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

The leading UK-based nanomaterials innovator Quantum Science has launched INFIQ® lead-free (LF) – quantum dot (QD), a quantum dot technology that is lead-free, and continues to push the boundaries of what sustainable nanotechnology can accomplish.

Aug 3, 2022

Nanoscale observations simplify how scientists describe earthquake movement

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Using single calcite crystals with varying surface roughness allows engineers to simplify the complex physics that describes fault movement. In a new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, researchers show how this simplification ...

Aug 2, 2022

Developing a new approach for building quantum computers

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Quantum computing, though still in its early days, has the potential to dramatically increase processing power by harnessing the strange behavior of particles at the smallest scales. Some research groups have already reported performing calculatio...

Aug 2, 2022

Fish Waste Benefit Uses Synthesis Process to Turn Then Useless Material Into Carbon-Based Nanomaterial

Science Times   -   Scientific News Websites

Scientists created a synthesis route in which fish scales removed from fish waste after cleaning are turned into carbo nano-onions or CNOs. Read to know more.

Aug 2, 2022

Finite-Bias Spectroscopy Useful to Determine Bilayer Graphene Bandgap

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Concurrent control over band gap and the charge carrier density in semiconductors is desirable in photodetectors, highly tunable transistors, and lasers. Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene is a van-der-Waals material that permits tuning the band gap ...

Aug 2, 2022

Converting Fish Waste into Carbon-Based Nanomaterial

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Carbon-based nanomaterials are increasingly being used in electronics, energy conversion and storage, catalysis, and biomedicine due to their low toxicity, chemical stability, and exceptional electrical and optical capabilities.

Aug 2, 2022

Promoting Nanoparticle Delivery at "Cellular Level" to Advance Nanomedicine

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Spatiotemporal delivery of nanoparticles at the cellular level is desirable in nanomedicine to deliver a maximum cytotoxic drug into cancer cells via the accumulation of the nanoparticles in tumors. Nevertheless, the cancer-associated fibroblasts ...

Aug 2, 2022

Researchers improve cement with shrimp shell nanoparticles

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Putting nanoparticles from shrimp shells into cement paste made the material significantly stronger -- an innovation that could lead to reduced seafood waste and lower carbon emissions from concrete production.

Aug 2, 2022

Significant Step in Forming Self-Sustained Smart Nanosystems

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Plasmonic nanoactuators mimic living systems in terms of their adaptability to uncontrolled environments. Thus, they have been applied in human-centered robotic applications and necessitated smart-ligand functionalized plasmonic nanoparticles to c...

Aug 2, 2022

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