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'Lost' ocean nanoplastic might be getting trapped on coasts

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As plastic debris weathers in aquatic environments, it can shed tiny nanoplastics. Although scientists have a good understanding of how these particles form, they still don't have a good grasp of where all the fragments end up. Now, researche...

Mar 10, 2021

Ultralow-Temperature Supercapacitors Using Porous Carbon Aerogel – Could Power Mars & Polar Missions

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NASA’s Perseverance Rover recently made a successful landing on Mars, embarking on a two-year mission to seek signs of ancient life and collect samples. Because... The post Ultralow-Temperature Supercapacitors Using Porous Carbon Aerogel – Could ...

Mar 10, 2021

Nano-mapping phase transitions in electronic materials

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Phase transitions are a central phenomenon in physical sciences. Despite being technical-sounding, they are actually something we all experience in everyday life: ice melting into liquid water, or hot water evaporating as steam. Solid, liquid, and...

Mar 10, 2021

Face masks and the environment: Preventing the next plastic problem

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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 10, 2021

Nano-mapping phase transitions in electronic materials

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Scientists have combined two powerful, cutting-edge techniques to uncover the physics behind an exotic phase transition that turns a metal into an insulator. The materials they looked at are rare-earth nickelates, which are of great interest for i...

Mar 10, 2021

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Graphene nanotubes gain traction in automotive market: OCSiAl confirms compliance with IATF 16949

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OCSiAl has confirmed its graphene nanotube solutions production facility and management system to be compliant with the IATF 16949 standard, paving the way to even wider application of graphene nanotu...

Mar 10, 2021

A nanoparticle's size is fine-tuned to offer high-resolution images before and during surgical procedures

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Scientists have found a way to control the size of special nanoparticles to optimize their use for both magnetic resonance and near-infrared imaging. Their approach could help surgeons use the same nanoparticles to visualize tumors just before and...

Mar 10, 2021

Moiré Than Meets the Eye: Carbon Nanotubes Self-Assemble Into Complex Structures for Materials Research

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Material behaviors depend on many things including not just the composition of the material but also the arrangement of its molecular parts. For the first... The post Moiré Than Meets the Eye: Carbon Nanotubes Self-Assemble Into Complex Structure...

Mar 10, 2021

Research predicts the high-temperature topological superconductivity of twisted double-layer copper oxides

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Two-dimensional (2D) materials, such as graphene or transition metal dichalcogenides, can sometimes be assembled into bilayers with a twist between individual layers. In recent years, many researchers have been investigating the properties of thes...

Mar 10, 2021

Polymer nanocomposites - additives, properties, applications, environmental aspects

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Various additives are added to plastics to either improve processability, change product properties or protect them against thermal, UV or light influences. In the case of a polymer nanocomposite, the additives have at least one dimension of less ...

Mar 10, 2021

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