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A new form of carbon

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Researchers at the University of Marburg in Germany and Aalto University in Finland have now discovered a new carbon network, which is atomically thin like graphene, but is made up of squares, hexagons, and octagons forming an ordered lattice. The...

May 25, 2021

"Bite" defects in bottom-up graphene nanoribbons

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Scientists at Empa and EPFL have identified a new type of defect as the most common source of disorder in on-surface synthesized graphene nanoribbons, a novel class of carbon-based materials that may prove extremely useful in next-generation elect...

May 25, 2021

Superflimsy graphene turned ultrastiff by optical forging

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Graphene is an ultrathin material characterized by its ultrasmall bending modulus, superflimsiness. Now the researchers at the Nanoscience Center of the University of Jyväskylä have demonstrated how an experimental technique called optical forging...

May 25, 2021

Light-emitting MXene quantum dots

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Light-emitting MXene quantum dotsIn a new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances; DOI https://doi.org/10.29026/oea.2021.200077, Researchers led by Professor Jeongyong Kim at the Department of Energy Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Repu...

May 25, 2021

Soft X-ray method promises nanocarrier breakthroughs for smart medicine

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A new technique using chemically-sensitive "soft" X-rays offers a simpler, non-disruptive way of gaining insight into nanocarriers. Currently researchers have to rely on attaching fluorescent dyes or heavy metals to label parts of organi...

May 25, 2021

Engineering matter at the atomic level

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In a breakthrough that will contribute to this, published in Nature Communications, researchers from the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research and RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics, along with collaborators, have developed a way to use a "d...

May 25, 2021

Silver attacks bacteria, gets 'consumed'

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As antibiotic-resistant bacteria become more prevalent, silver has seen steep growth in its use in things like antibacterial coatings. Still, a better understanding can provide clues on how to best apply it. In Chemical Physics Reviews, researcher...

May 25, 2021

Meaty markets for biobased nanofibres

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Scaffold supports muscle-tissue formation and has a unique 3D structure. ...

May 25, 2021

Flu Fighter: Nanoparticle-Based Influenza Vaccine Effective in Preclinical Trials

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An experimental flu vaccine consisting of billions of tiny spherical sacs that carry infection-fighting proteins throughout the body has proven effective in preclinical studies.

May 24, 2021

With a kitchen freezer and plant cellulose, an aerogel for therapeutic use is developed

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A new low-cost and sustainable technique would boost the possibilities for hospitals and clinics to deliver therapeutics with aerogels, a foam-like material now found in such high-tech applications as insulation for spacesuits and breathable plast...

May 24, 2021

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