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Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Three dimensional Mn-doped NixSy/Ni2P and Mn-doped Ni2O3/Ni2P nanosheets as efficient electrocatalysts for alkaline overall water splitting

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Hydrogen has attracted extensive attention from academia and industry as an energy source due to its intrinsic environmental compatibility, abundance, and high energy density (120 MJ kg−1). Elec...

Apr 9, 2022

"Environmentally Friendly, Self-Templating Supramolecular Polymer Synthesis"

SciTechDaily   -   Scientific News Websites

A green method for producing crystalline supramolecular fibers promises to make polymer production more sustainable. A polymer that catalyzes its own formation in an environmentally... The post Environmentally Friendly, Self-Templating Supramolec...

Apr 8, 2022

"In a sea of magic angles, 'twistons' keep electrons flowing through three layers of graphene"

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The discovery of superconductivity in two ever-so-slightly twisted layers of graphene made waves a few years ago in the quantum materials community. With just two atom-thin sheets of carbon, researchers had discovered a simple device to study the ...

Apr 8, 2022

AI Blazes Path Toward Dissipationless Electronics

IEEE Spectrum   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

A new AI algorithm has been developed that offers to drastically trim back the time needed to iterate designs of a promising new material called the topological insulator.

Apr 8, 2022

Three dimensional Mn-doped nanosheets as efficient electrocatalysts for alkaline water splitting

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Hydrogen has attracted extensive attention from academia and industry as an energy source due to its intrinsic environmental compatibility, abundance, and high energy density (120 MJ kg−1). Electrocatalytic water splitting is an environmentally fr...

Apr 8, 2022

A pathway to high-quality ZnSe quantum wires

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One-dimensional semiconductor nanowires with strong quantum confinement effect—quantum wires (QWs)—are of great interest for applications in advanced optoelectronics and photochemical conversions. Beyond the state-of-the-art Cd-containing ones, Zn...

Apr 8, 2022

Graphene-driving strain engineering to enable strain-free epitaxy of AlN film for deep ultraviolet light-emitting diode

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The direct band gap of AlN-based materials makes them suitable for fabricating DUV optoelectronic devices, which have a wide range of application prospects in the fields of curing, water and air disinfection, medicine and biochemistry. Therefore, ...

Apr 8, 2022

"Novel Solar Nanowire-Nanotube Filter, Likely to Provide Clean Drinking Water"

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Clean water is still a luxury for many people throughout the world. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), at least 1.8 billion people drink feces-tainted water, and a substantial section...

Apr 8, 2022

Novel Electrochemical Intercalation Process for Mass Manufacture of TMD Nanosheets

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

An upcoming group of materials known as two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) that can be employed as insulators and semiconductors have favorable potential in numerous...

Apr 8, 2022

Are Nanoparticles Replacing Antibiotics? Plants May Be Used As Drug Alternative

Science Times   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers have developed a mechanism using nanoparticles that may potentially replace antibiotics. Learn more about the mass phytoproduction method here.

Apr 8, 2022

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