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New research suggests mineral nanoparticles as ubiquitous enzyme mimetics in Earth systems

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Minerals are inorganic substances, whereas enzymes are organic substances (e.g., proteins). However, many types of Earth-abundant minerals exhibit intrinsic enzyme-like activities when their particles decrease to the nanometer (nm) scale (so calle...

Jun 8, 2021

Generating Electricity: MIT Engineers Discover New Using Tiny Carbon Particles

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MIT engineers recently discovered a new material made from carbon nanotubes that can be used for generating electricity.

Jun 7, 2021

New drug-formulation method may lead to smaller pills: Chemical engineers have found a way to load more drug into a tablet, which could then be made smaller and easier to swallow

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Chemical engineers have devised a simpler process for incorporating hydrophobic drugs into tablets or other drug formulations, using nanoemulsions. With this method, it may be possible to make many pills smaller and easier to swallow.

Jun 7, 2021

MIT Engineers Have Discovered a Completely New Way of Generating Electricity

SciTechDaily   -   Scientific News Websites

A new material made from carbon nanotubes can generate electricity by scavenging energy from its environment. MIT engineers have discovered a new way of generating electricity using tiny carbon particles that can create a current simply by interac...

Jun 7, 2021

For Computers of the Future: Scientists Attain Hundredfold Enhancement of Germanium Quantum Dot Luminance

Technology Org   -   Scientific News Websites

A team of scientists including researchers from ITMO University, A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Institute for Physics of

Jun 7, 2021

Insights into construction of metal chalcogenide supertetrahedral clusters

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Nanoclusters, which consist of several or even thousands of atoms, represent an important intermediate state between microscopic atoms and macroscopic matter. A profound comprehension of the composition, structure, and properties of nanoclusters i...

Jun 7, 2021

Study provides new insights into indoor HCHO purification by transition-metal nanocatalysts

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Room-temperature catalytic oxidation is an efficient approach to converting formaldehyde (HCHO) into harmless CO2 by using reactive oxygen species (ROS) on the surface of noble-metal nanocatalysts.

Jun 7, 2021

Nanoengineering integrates crystals that don't usually get along

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A blueprint for designing new materials using difficult combinations of nanocrystals has been developed by a team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan.

Jun 7, 2021

A new material made from carbon nanotubes can generate electricity by scavenging energy from its environment

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Engineers discovered a way to generate electricity using tiny carbon particles that can create an electric current simply by interacting with an organic solvent in which they're floating.

Jun 7, 2021

Ultra-high-density hard drives made with graphene store ten times more data

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Graphene can be used for ultra-high density hard disk drives (HDD), with up to a tenfold jump compared to current technologies, researchers at the Cambridge Graphene Center have shown.

Jun 7, 2021

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