Researchers have shown that green tea can be used as a reducing reagent for the preparation of nanomaterials to synthesize ammonia. Compared with bulk graphitic carbon nitride, the optimal sample had 2.93-fold photocatalytic nitrate reduction to a...
Dec 3, 2021
Two dimensional (2D) magnetic semiconductors, integrating semiconductivity, ferromagnetism and low dimensionality, serve as the cornerstone for high-speed nanospintronic devices. However, the practical applications of nowadays 2D magnetic semicond...
Dec 3, 2021
Graphene consists of a planar structure, with carbon atoms connected in a hexagonal shape that resembles a beehive. When graphene is reduced to several nanometers (nm) in size, it becomes a graphene quantum dot that exhibits fluorescent and semico...
Dec 3, 2021
Light not only plays a key role as an information carrier for optical computer chips, particularly for the next generation of quantum computers. Its lossless guidance around sharp corners on tiny chips and the precise control of its interaction wi...
Dec 3, 2021
With nanotechnology we can understand, mimic, and modulate our immune system. For her Ph.D. research, Annelies Wauters studied how tiny nanocarriers can be used to control the immune system, and target and activate immune cells to fight cancer cel...
Dec 3, 2021
For studying materials at the nano-level, scientists repeatedly need to build a complex structure in which to contain the materials – a laborious and difficult process. However, imagine if there was a method where the structure could just build it...
Dec 3, 2021
Laboratory for Multifunctional Materials Professor Markus Niederberger, at ETH Zurich, has been working on unusual materials, specifically, aerogels-based nanoparticles known as photocatalysts.
Dec 3, 2021
Researchers at the University of Michigan and Seoul National University of Science and Technology have devised a new method for manufacturing devices that require precisely sized and positioned micro- and nanoscale particles. The technique is suit...
Dec 3, 2021
Nanoracks, in collaboration with Voyager Space and Lockheed Martin, has been awarded a $160 million contract by NASA to design its Starlab commercial space station as part of the agency's Commercial Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) Development program. ...
Dec 3, 2021
Multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) can be utilized for hydrogen storage as they are cost-effective, environmentally acceptable, and exhibit excellent performance in adsorption and desorption processes. An article published recently in the jour...
Dec 3, 2021
