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Practical nanozymes discovered to fight antimicrobial resistance

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Nanozymes, a group of inorganic catalysis-efficient particles, have been proposed as promising antimicrobials against bacteria. They are efficient in killing bacteria, thanks to their production of reactive oxygen species (ROS).

Mar 15, 2021

Degradable lignin-based polyurethane adsorbent for efficient crude oil cleanup

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A research group led by Prof. Zhu Jin at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), has synthesized a high-efficiency carbon nanotube (CNT) modified lignin-based polyurethane adso...

Mar 15, 2021

Universal sequence of Chern insulators in superconducting magic angle graphene

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Scientists from ICFO, Princeton and NIMS have discovered a full sequence of symmetry-broken Chern insulators that are induced by strong correlations in magic angle graphene. The study has been published in Nature Physics.

Mar 15, 2021

Use of perovskite will be a key feature of the next generation of electronic appliances

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Quantum dots are manmade nanoparticles of semiconducting material comprising only a few thousand atoms. Because of the small number of atoms, a quantum dot's properties lie between those of single atoms or molecules and bulk material with a h...

Mar 15, 2021

Scientists Develop New Method for Making Ordered Arrays of Nanoholes

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Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a new method for making ordered arrays of nanoholes in metallic oxide thin films using a range of transition metals. The team used a...

Mar 15, 2021

Wider horizons for highly ordered nanohole arrays

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Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a new method for making ordered arrays of nanoholes in metallic oxide thin films using a range of transition metals. The team used a template to pre-pattern metallic surfaces with an ord...

Mar 15, 2021

New Voltage-Controlled Nanopores Could Help Create Single-Molecule Sensors

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At the Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research of Osaka University, researchers have fabricated nanopores in silicon dioxide with a diameter of just 300 nm and encapsulated by electrodes....

Mar 15, 2021

Scientists Build the Smallest Cable Containing a Spin Switch

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A research work published in /Nature Communications/, involving researchers from the Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies in Nanoscience (IMDEA) and the University of Sevilla, has measured for the...

Mar 15, 2021

Research looks at inflammatory nature of lipid nanoparticle component in mRNA vaccines

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In a recent bioRxiv preprint research paper, Botond Z. Igyártó and colleagues from Thomas Jefferson University demonstrated the inflammatory nature of the lipid nanoparticles (LNPs).

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 considered the possibility of whether this may point towards new physics beyo...

Mar 15, 2021

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