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Peptide nanoparticles marked for in vitro visualization

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The work was conducted under the auspices of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and organizations-participants of the BRICS framework program in science, technology and innovation; the grant title is "Nanosized peptide-based biomateria...

May 28, 2021

Researchers build structured, multi-part nanocrystals with super light-emitting properties

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Researchers have combined two or three types of nanoparticles to produce new materials with structures known as superlattices. In some instances, the structures display fundamental new properties such as superfluorescence. The researchers' di...

May 28, 2021

Nanofibrous filters for PM2.5 filtration

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Narrating the basic knowledge of nanofibrous filters. The mechanical-dependent and electrostatic-dependent nanofibrous filters were summarized according to their mechanical adsorption and electrostatic adsorption to the nanoparticles, respectively...

May 28, 2021

Watch me move it, move it: Gliding structure in Mycoplasma mobile revealed

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In collaboration with Kanazawa University, researchers from Osaka City University used high-speed atomic force microscopy (HS-AFM) to visualize at the nanometer level the movement of individual particles within the parasitic bacterium Mycoplasma m...

May 28, 2021

New Optical Antennas Harvest 100 Times More Electricity from Heat

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The world's most efficient optical rectennas yet can harvest over 100 times more energy from waste heat compared to previous devices, although a new study finds that much work is needed before they can achieve practical value. Rectennas—sho...

May 27, 2021

Effects of nanoplastics on Canadian and Guadeloupean oysters

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Oysters' exposure to plastics is concerning, particularly because these materials can accumulate and release metals which are then absorbed by the mollusks. According to a recent study published in the journal Chemosphere, the combined presen...

May 27, 2021

Comprehensive electronic-structure methods for materials design

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Nicola Marzari, head of the Theory and Simulation of Materials laboratory at EFPL and director of NCCR MARVEL, has just published a review of electronic-structure methods as part of a special edition Insight on Computational Materials Design, publ...

May 27, 2021

Skin Displays Will Give Wearables Their Independence

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When the display’s on your skin, you can leave your smartphone in your pocket

May 27, 2021

Ultracold circuits for quantum computing, graphene boosts sustainability, secrets of supercooled water – Physics World

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This podcast looks at the physics of liquids, nanomaterials and qubit integration The post Ultracold circuits for quantum computing, graphene boosts sustainability, secrets of supercooled water appeared first on Physics World.

May 27, 2021

Shiny mega-crystals that build themselves

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Researchers are playing with shape-engineered nanoscale building blocks that are up to 100-times larger than atoms and ions. Although these nano 'Lego bricks' interact with each other with forces vastly different and much weaker than tho...

May 27, 2021

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