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Nanosurf launches WaveMode at BPS2022

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Nanosurf announces WaveMode, a new AFM imaging mode launched at the 2022 Biophysical Society meeting. WaveMode is the fastest force curve-based imaging mode with application to all samples and all...

Feb 21, 2022

World's smallest battery assembles itself like a Swiss roll cake

New Atlas   -   Scientific News Websites

The ongoing miniaturizing of electronics calls for an ongoing reimagining of the devices that power them, and a new example from scientists at the Chemnitz University of Technology has taken this technology into tiny new territory. By deploying wh...

Feb 21, 2022

Easy aluminum nanoparticles for rapid, efficient hydrogen generation from water

NanoDaily   -   Scientific News Websites

Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Feb 21, 2022 Aluminum is a highly reactive metal that can strip oxygen from water molecules to generate hydrogen gas. Its widespread use in products that get wet poses no danger because aluminum instantly reacts with air to ...

Feb 20, 2022

Clay nanosheets produce bright structural colours – Physics World

Physics World   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Clay suspensions can be used to create inexpensive, non-toxic structural colours with applications ranging from cosmetics and health to windows and tiles The post Clay nanosheets produce bright structural colours appeared first on Physics World.

Feb 20, 2022

Researchers detect abnormally strong absorption of light in magnetized graphene

Graphene Info   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

Researchers from Germany's University of Regensburg, Russia's MIPT, and U.S-based University of Kansas and MIT have discovered an abnormally strong absorption of light in magnetized graphene. The effect appears upon the conversion of nor...

Feb 20, 2022

New Nanocrystal Gel Can Stitch 2 States, Contributing to Energy, Telecommunications

Science Times   -   Scientific News Websites

The root of the discovery of a research team involving a new type of nanocrystal gel is found to be easily tunable which means it can be switched between two different conditions by changing the temperature.

Feb 20, 2022

Adiabatic Quantum Computing for Multi Object Tracking

Technology Org   -   Scientific News Websites

Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) is an NP-hard problem in computer vision. A recent paper published on arXiv.org proposes a quantum computing formulation of MOT.

Feb 19, 2022

First Graphene and partners secure UK grant to develop graphene-enhanced cement

Graphene Info   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

First Graphene-led consortium of partners has been awarded a UK Government grant to develop high performance graphene-enhanced cement.

Feb 19, 2022

Zentek announces the development of graphene-wrapped silicon anodes

Graphene Info   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

Zentek has announced the patent-pending development of a graphene-wrapped silicon anode material, developed along with Prof. Michael Pope, an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Waterloo, and in colla...

Feb 19, 2022

With this Ruby Laser, George Porter Sped up Photochemistry

IEEE Spectrum   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

When the future Nobel-winning chemist George Porter arrived as a Ph.D. student in chemistry at the University of Cambridge in 1945, he found the equipment there “remarkably primitive,” as he told an interviewer in later life. “One made one’s own o...

Feb 18, 2022

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