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Practical nanozymes discovered to fight antimicrobial resistance

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With the problem of antimicrobial resistance getting serious, the researchers find a new group of effective antimicrobials, which selectively kill bacteria while remaining nontoxic to mammalian cells. This feature of these nanozymes may provide a ...

Mar 16, 2021

Photocatalytic efficiency in photocatalysis found to be site sensitive

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Researchers probe into the photocatalytic process on the titanium dioxide nanocrystals, finding that the process could be sensitive to the site of the reaction and the type of surface adsorbates. It shows the promise of surface engineering of maxi...

Mar 16, 2021

Acoustic graphene plasmons study paves way for optoelectronic applications

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KAIST researchers and their collaborators at home and abroad have successfully demonstrated a new methodology for direct near-field optical imaging of acoustic graphene plasmon fields. This strategy will provide a breakthrough for the practical ap...

Mar 16, 2021

The valuable contribution of stress to the thermal stability of nanograined polycrystalline alloys

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Nanograined metals possess high strength and high ductility, but low thermal stability. Enhancing the thermal stability will greatly broaden applications of nanograined metals and alloys. A novel criterion of thermal stability is developed, indica...

Mar 16, 2021

How Quantum Computing Could Remake Chemistry

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It will bring molecular modeling to a new level of accuracy, reducing researchers’ reliance on serendipity -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Mar 15, 2021

The role of nanotechnology in the fight against COVID-19

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Appearing in the journal Nanomedicine, the review summarized all the exciting advances made using diverse nanomaterials (polymeric, inorganic self-assembling materials and peptide-based) towards COVID-19 prevention, diagnosis and therapy.

Mar 15, 2021

Whispers from the dark side: What can gravitational waves reveal about dark matter?

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The NANOGrav Collaboration recently captured the first signs of very low-frequency gravitational waves. Prof. Pedro Schwaller and Wolfram Ratzinger analyzed the data and, in particular, considered the possibility of whether this may point towards ...

Mar 15, 2021

The importance of international standards for the graphene community

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NPL, in collaboration with international partners, has developed an ISO/IEC standard, ISO/TS 21356-1:2021, for measuring the structural properties of graphene, typically sold as powders or in a liquid dispersion. The ISO/IEC standard allows the su...

Mar 15, 2021

Nanoclusters with a copper-hydrogen core provide new structure-activity insights

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Copper nanomaterials with a cubic shape so perfect that they form neatly aligned stacks when brought together have been created by researchers at KAUST. The cuboid copper nanoclusters, developed by rational design, are a new member of an exotic na...

Mar 15, 2021

Efficiency in photocatalysis found to be site-sensitive

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Prof. Huang Weixin and Zhang Qun from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), together with domestic collaborators, probed into the photocatalytic oxidation of methanol on various anatase TiO2...

Mar 15, 2021

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