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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

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

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

‘Wearable Microgrid’ Uses the Human Body to Sustainably Power Small Gadgets

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Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a “wearable microgrid” that harvests and stores energy

Mar 14, 2021

COVID Face Masks Are a Ticking Plastic Bomb – 3 Million Thrown Away Every Minute

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Every minute of the day we throw away 3 million face masks. Many end up as potentially toxic micro- and nanoplastic or carriers for other toxicants in the environment, researchers warn.

Mar 14, 2021

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Scientists build the smallest cable containing a spin switch

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*IMDEA Nanociencia researchers report the first encapsulation of spin-crossover (SCO) molecules inside carbon nanotubes.* ·*SCO molecules present a radical spin change with temperature, relevant ...

Mar 13, 2021

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Remote control for quantum emitters:Novel approach could become a asset in quantum computers and quantum simulation

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In order to exploit the properties of quantum physics technologically, quantum objects and their interaction must be precisely controlled. In many cases, this is done using light. Researchers at the U...

Mar 13, 2021

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Use of perovskite will be a key feature of the next generation of electronic appliances: Nanomaterials of perovskite dispersed in hexane and irradiated by laser; light emission by these materials is intense thanks to resistance to surface defects

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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 ato...

Mar 13, 2021

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