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Nanoparticles make it easier to turn light into solvated electrons

NanoDaily   -   Scientific News Websites

Houston TX (SPX) Jan 19, 2023 There are many ways to initiate chemical reactions in liquids, but placing free electrons directly into water, ammonia and other liquid solutions is especially attractive for green chemistry because solvated electr...

Jan 19, 2023

New Piezo Objective Scanner Offers Market Leading Accuracy and Resolution

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Nanopositioning expert, Queensgate, has announced the launch of the Nano Scan OP800 piezo objective scanner. Its unique mechanical design together with integral capacitive feedback sensors offer...

Jan 19, 2023

Electronic nose: Sensing odor molecules on graphene surface layered with self-assembled peptides

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

The findings indicated that graphene field-effect transistors (GFETs) functionalized with designable peptides can be used to develop electronic devices that mimic olfactory receptors and emulate the sense of smell by selectively detecting odor mol...

Jan 19, 2023

Nanoparticles make it easier to turn light into solvated electrons

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Solutions containing solvated electrons are inherently clean chemical reactants, and they could become easier and cheaper to make now that chemists have uncovered the long-sought mechanism of a light-driven process that creates them.

Jan 18, 2023

Scientists developing early Alzheimer's disease detection sensor

Medical Xpress   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers with the SFU Nanodevice Fabrication Group are developing a new biosensor that can be used to screen for Alzheimer's disease and other diseases. An overview of their work has been recently published in the journal Nature Communicat...

Jan 18, 2023

Nynke Dekker wins Physica Prize 2023

Delft University of Technology   -   Organizations and Universities Websites

The Physica Prize 2023 has been awarded to Nynke Dekker, professor single molecule nanoscale biophysics at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at Delft Technical University. She has invented and developed innovative physical methods within molecula...

Jan 18, 2023

Want a 'Shrinky Dinks' approach to nano-sized devices? Try hydrogels

Science News   -   Scientific News Websites

Patterning hydrogels with a laser and then shrinking them down with chemicals offers a way to make nanoscopic structures out of many materials.

Jan 18, 2023

Scientists Unlock Nature’s Secret to Super-Selective Binding

SciTechDaily   -   Scientific News Websites

EPFL researchers have found that controlling super-selective binding interactions between nanomaterials and protein surfaces requires not only adjusting the molecular density but also the pattern...

Jan 18, 2023

Scientists develop new technique to image fluctuations in nanomaterials

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Scientists have developed a revolutionary new method for capturing high-resolution images of fluctuations in materials at the nanoscale using powerful X-ray sources.

Jan 18, 2023

A new, better technology for X-ray laser pulses

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Intense, extremely short-wave X-ray pulses in the nanometer wavelength range are difficult to produce, but now a new, simpler method has been developed: the starting point is not a titanium-sapphire laser, which had mostly been used for this purpo...

Jan 18, 2023

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