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Nanoparticles that control flow of light like road signs direct traffic

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Physicists at The Australian National University (ANU) have developed tiny translucent slides capable of producing two very different images by manipulating the direction in which light travels through them.

Jun 20, 2022

Nanoparticles control flow of light like road signs direct traffic

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Physicists have developed tiny translucent slides capable of producing two very different images by manipulating the direction in which light travels through them.

Jun 20, 2022

Relationship between silver nanowire film plasticity and shear fracture resistance

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A research team led by Ji Shulin from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) studying the mechanism of silver nanowire films has recently discovered that the better the plasticity of the films, the more r...

Jun 20, 2022

New exfoliation technique 'recovers' biomaterial's piezoelectricity

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Piezoelectric materials are applicable in the biomedical field, and if they can be biocompatible and degradable, it will be a big step towards real applications. Recently, a research team at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) developed a simple ...

Jun 20, 2022

The realization of measurement induced quantum phases on a trapped-ion quantum computer

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Trapped-ion quantum computers are quantum devices in which trapped ions vibrate together and are fully isolated from the external environment. These computers can be particularly useful for investigating and realizing various quantum physics states.

Jun 20, 2022

Super-Resolution Imaging Method For Multiple Fluorescence Microscopy Applications

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In an article recently published in the journal Nanotechnology, researchers employed a single particle imaging method for fluorescence excitation with moderate intensity to achieve spatial resolution. Here, the semiconductor nanocrystals were acce...

Jun 20, 2022

Researchers Reveal the Multifunctionality of Polyurea Nanocomposites

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A recent study published in the journal Smart Materials in Manufacturing focuses on producing smart, multifaceted, and structurally robust nanocomposites by combining functionalized graphene nanoplatelets (F-GNPs) with polyurea.

Jun 20, 2022

Sustainable Synthesis of Carbon-Based Oxygen Reduction Reaction Electrocatalyst

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Graphitic carbon nitride/graphene hybrids for electrocatalysis of oxygen reduction reactions (ORR) in metal-air fuel cells and batteries are proven to be viable, inexpensive, and long-lasting alternatives for platinum-based electrocatalytic materi...

Jun 20, 2022

Light-Activated Nanomachines Combat Bacterial Infections

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Rice University researchers have developed visible-light-activated molecular machines that kill antibiotic-resistant bacteria in minutes by targeting the bacteria’s membranes. This approach to treating drug-resistant infections, which uses antimic...

Jun 20, 2022

Learning to understand how nanomaterials enter cells and how cells react

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Every cell relies on the uptake (endocytosis) of materials like proteins, cytokines and even synthetic carbon nanomaterials, to perform its required cellular fate functions. Studying this process in detail is an extremely challenging and thus extr...

Jun 20, 2022

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