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Aerogel is a wonder material, but how to make it? (Video)

Technology Org   -   Scientific News Websites

Aerogels are truly wonder materials: they are light as air, can be used to treat water, to manufacture catalysts, build future energy storage devices, can help bones heal quicker, and even have potential prospects to be used to terraform the surfa...

Jan 7, 2022

The best of CES 2022

Engadget   -   General News Websites

You all know what they say about the best-laid plans. Though Engadget intended to send a few editors to cover CES in person, we later decided amid surging covid cases that it would be best if our entire staff just stayed home and covered the show ...

Jan 7, 2022

Engineering hairy cellulose nanocrystals to capture chemotherapy drugs

News Medical   -   Scientific News Websites

Millions of people around the globe are affected by cancer each year; more than 39% of men and women are diagnosed with cancer during their lifetime.

Jan 7, 2022

Building Better Qubits

IEEE Spectrum   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

While growing up in Germany, Heike Riel helped her father design and build furniture in the family workshop. She says the experience taught her that “precision and creativity are necessary to build something excellent.” “Working as a furniture ma...

Jan 7, 2022

Self-Healing Nanomaterials: Self-Repairing Electronics Are on the Way

SciTechDaily   -   Scientific News Websites

Self-healing nanomaterials usable in solar panels and other electronic devices are being explored at the Technion. From the Terminator to Spiderman’s suit, self-repairing robots and... The post Self-Healing Nanomaterials: Self-Repairing Electroni...

Jan 7, 2022

Nanobubbles Help to Effectively Separate High Ash Fine Coal

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

A group of researchers developed an efficient approach for handling high-ash fine coal utilizing water comprising positively charged nanobubbles (PCNBs) and polyaluminum chloride (PAC) in a work...

Jan 7, 2022

In situ ion-exchange preparation methods developed for efficient electrocatalytic water oxidation

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Using a simple redox-precipitation approach, a research team has recently reported their synthesis of ultrathin NiCoFe-NDA (NDA=2,6-naphthalenedicarboxylic acid) nanosheets for high efficiency oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in anion exchange memb...

Jan 7, 2022

Universal Route for High Capacity Hybrid Supercapacitor Electrode

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

In an article recently published in the ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces journal, a single-step phosphorization method was used to create low-crystallinity Fe2P2O7 nanoplates that were...

Jan 7, 2022

Light–matter interactions simulated on the world’s fastest supercomputer

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Researchers have developed a computational approach for simulating interactions between matter and light at the atomic scale. The team tested their method by modeling light -- matter interactions in a thin film of amorphous silicon dioxide, compos...

Jan 7, 2022

Great balls of fire: How heating up testicles with nanoparticles might one day be a form of male birth control

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Women have a variety of methods for contraception, but only two methods are commonly available to men: condoms and vasectomies. Both methods have their drawbacks.

Jan 7, 2022

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