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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

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

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