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Absorbent aerogels show some muscle: Spongelike materials for environmental remediation and more

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

A simple chemical process creates light and highly absorbent aerogels for environmental remediation or as membranes for batteries and other applications.

Jun 8, 2021

Online 'library of properties' helps to create safer nanomaterials

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers have developed a 'library of properties' to help identify the environmental impact of nanomaterials faster and more cost effectively.

Jun 8, 2021

Graphene could allow hard drives to hold 10 times more data

Engadget   -   General News Websites

Using graphene, everyone's favorite wonder material, they replaced the carbon-based overcoat (COC) on several hard drives.

Jun 8, 2021

Novel Material Made from Carbon Nanotubes can Generate Electricity

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

MIT engineers have discovered a new way of generating electricity using tiny carbon particles that can create a current simply by interacting with liquid surrounding them. The liquid, an organic...

Jun 8, 2021

New Project Explores Cytosolic Access and Instability of DNA Nanoparticles

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Divita Mathur, Research Assistant Professor, is studying cytosolic access and instability of DNA nanoparticles. A number of candidate therapies such as CRISPR-Cas9 and gene silencing require the...

Jun 8, 2021

Absorbent aerogels show some muscle

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

A simple chemical process developed at Rice University creates light and highly absorbent aerogels that can take a beating.

Jun 8, 2021

Compositional dependence of perovskite nanocrystal properties

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Researchers from Skoltech and Ludwig Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Germany have studied the fundamental properties of halide perovskite nanocrystals, a promising class of optoelectronic materials. Using a combination of theory and experiment, t...

Jun 8, 2021

Early endeavors on the path to reliable quantum machine learning

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The future quantum computers should be capable of super-fast and reliable computation. Today, this is still a major challenge. Now, computer scientists conduct an early exploration for reliable quantum machine learning.

Jun 8, 2021

Super productive 3D bioprinter could help speed up drug development

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A new 3D bioprinter developed by nanoengineers operates at record speed -- it can print a 96-well array of living human tissue samples within 30 minutes. The technology could help accelerate high-throughput preclinical drug screening and make it l...

Jun 8, 2021

Stepstone for sustainable batteries – greener carbons

chemeurope.com   -   Scientific News Websites

Lithium-ion batteries require in addition to lithium metal a number of sophisticated functional materials for their performance. Some of them sound rather unspectacular: conductive additives. In fact, conductive additives like carbon black or car...

Jun 8, 2021

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