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A little-known company made smart fitness clothing you might actually wear at the gym

Engadget   -   General News Websites

Smartwear hasn’t quite had its moment. Innovators like Hexoskin and Omsignal, not to mention huge companies like Adidas and Ralph Lauren, have struggled to make an impact, demanding a lot of money for dedicated shirts and sensors, while contending...

Nov 22, 2021

Getting quantum dots to stop blinking

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Quantum dots have many possible applications, but they are limited by their tendency to blink off at random intervals. Chemists have come up with a way to control this unwanted blinking without requiring any modification to the formulation or the ...

Nov 22, 2021

Getting quantum dots to stop blinking

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Quantum dots, discovered in the 1990s, have a wide range of applications and are perhaps best known for producing vivid colors in some high-end televisions. But for some potential uses, such as tracking biochemical pathways of a drug as it interac...

Nov 22, 2021

Mystery of high performing novel solar cell materials revealed in stunning clarity

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers from the University of Cambridge have used a suite of correlative, multimodal microscopy methods to visualize, for the first time, why perovskite materials are seemingly so tolerant of defects in their structure. Their findings were pu...

Nov 22, 2021

Tensotherm structure planned for Florida

Innovation in Textiles   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

Aerogel core and interior PTFE-coated acoustical membrane liner bring advanced sound attenuation to textile architecture....

Nov 22, 2021

Exotic New Material Could Be Two Superconductors in One – With Serious Quantum Computing Applications

SciTechDaily   -   Scientific News Websites

MIT physicists and colleagues have demonstrated an exotic form of superconductivity in a new material the team synthesized only about a year ago. Although predicted in the 1960s, until now this type of superconductivity has proven difficult to sta...

Nov 21, 2021

NanoMalaysia and UMORIE Graphene jointly develop graphene-based pouch cell battery for EVs

Graphene Info   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

NanoMalaysia (NMB), a company under the Malaysian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI) set up to promote nanotechnology commercialization activities, has an ongoing collaboration with and UMORIE Graphene Technologies (UGT) that h...

Nov 21, 2021

Maritime Launch Services announces Nanoracks as payload provider; Unveils Spaceport Nova Scotia design

NanoDaily   -   Scientific News Websites

Maritime Launch Services, one of Canada's leading aerospace firms and the owner of the country's first commercial spaceport, announced that Nanoracks, a Voyager Space company and the leading commercial payload provider to the Internation...

Nov 21, 2021

Electrically Switchable Nanoantennas Developed for Holographic Video Technology

SciTechDaily   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers develop electrically switchable nanoantennas as basis for holographic video technology.

Nov 21, 2021

Cancer Cells Use “Tiny Tentacles” To Suck Mitochondria Out of Immune Cells

SciTechDaily   -   Scientific News Websites

With the power of nanotechnology, investigators have discovered that cancer cells strengthen by forming nanotubes that they use to suck mitochondria out of immune cells.

Nov 21, 2021

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