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First nanoscale look at a reaction that limits the efficiency of generating hydrogen fuel

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Transitioning to a hydrogen economy will require massive production of cheap, clean hydrogen gas for fuel and chemical feedstocks. New tools allow scientists to zoom in on a catalytic reaction that's been a bottleneck in efforts to generate h...

May 6, 2021

Smart magnetic soft materials to develop artificial muscles and therapeutic robots

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Developing a new generation of artificial muscles and soft nanorobots for drug delivery are some of the long-term goals of 4D-BIOMAP, an ERC research project being undertaken by the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M).This project develops cro...

May 6, 2021

First nanoscale look at a reaction that limits the efficiency of generating clean hydrogen fuel

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Transitioning from fossil fuels to a clean hydrogen economy will require cheaper and more efficient ways to use renewable sources of electricity to break water into hydrogen and oxygen.

May 6, 2021

Graphene Oxide can Carry Organic Pollutants in the Aquatic Environment

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Graphene is a two-dimensional nanomaterial composed of carbon and formed by a single layer of densely packed carbon atoms.

May 6, 2021

Paper Information Encryption Using Carbon Nanoparticle-Based Invisible Ink and AI Model

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Coded messages in invisible ink sound like something only found in espionage books, but in real life, they can have important security purposes. Yet, they can be cracked if their encryption is predictable.

May 6, 2021

Collaboration has mission to build UK's first commercial quantum computer – Physics World

Physics World   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Oxford Instruments NanoScience is partnering in a three-year project to create and develop the UK's first quantum computer capable of running end-user applications in the cloud The post Collaboration has mission to build UK’s first commercial...

May 6, 2021

Nanoplastics – an underestimated problem?

chemeurope.com   -   Scientific News Websites

The images leave no one cold: giant vortices of floating plastic trash in the world's oceans with sometimes devastating consequences for their inhabitants – the sobering legacy of our modern lifestyle. Weathering and degradation processes pr...

May 6, 2021

A material-keyboard made of graphene

Technology Org   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers at ETH Zurich have succeeded in turning specially prepared graphene flakes either into insulators or into superconductors

May 6, 2021

Magic angle makes graphene simultaneously superconducting and insulating

New Atlas   -   Scientific News Websites

Graphene just keeps getting weirder. Engineers at ETH Zurich have now managed to tweak the overachieving material so that some parts of a flake can be an electrical insulator while other areas act as a superconductor, just nanometers apart. The te...

May 6, 2021

It’s a Kind of Magic! Researchers Make Versatile Quantum Devices Out of Graphene

Science Times   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have turned its "magic" angle material made of graphene into versatile quantum computing devices.

May 6, 2021

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