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Capture Coating effectively kills Covid-19 indoors

Innovation in Textiles   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

The spread and lingering impacts of the Covid-19 virus can be effectively and cheaply stopped with a new hydrophobic nanocoating applied to nonwoven filter fabrics in common HVAC systems. ...

Mar 1, 2021

Cavitation Technologies, Inc. Receives Purchase Order for Biodiesel Nano Reactor System in South America

GlobeNewswire   -   Business News Websites

Cavitation Technologies, Inc. announced that Desmet Ballestra Group, CVAT’s strategic partner since 2010, has completed a sale agreement for Nano Reactor® system with a bio-diesel refinery in South America and the Company anticipates to receive re...

Mar 1, 2021

Surpassing Optical Limit for 28000 Times Blu-Ray Storage on a 12 Centimeter Disk | NextBigFuture.com

NextBigFuture   -   Scientific News Websites

We could soon store 700 Terabytes on a 12-centimeter optical disk which would be equal to storing 28,000 Blu-ray disks. A separate advance with in data encoding could triple storage to 2.1 Petabytes in a single optical disk. Researchers at USST, R...

Feb 28, 2021

Weakness is Strength for this Low-Temperature Battery

Technology Org   -   Scientific News Websites

Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have discovered new fundamental insights for developing lithium metal batteries

Feb 28, 2021

Atomic nuclei in the quantum swing

Technology Org   -   Scientific News Websites

From atomic clocks to secure communication to quantum computers: these developments are based on the increasingly better control

Feb 28, 2021

Quantum Tunneling in Graphene Advances the Age of High Speed Terahertz Wireless Communications

SciTechDaily   -   Scientific News Websites

Scientists from MIPT, Moscow Pedagogical State University and the University of Manchester have created a highly sensitive terahertz detector based on the effect of quantum-mechanical... The post Quantum Tunneling in Graphene Advances the Age of ...

Feb 28, 2021

ICYMI: We check out Lenovo’s lightest ThinkPad yet

Engadget   -   General News Websites

This week we spent some time testing Lenovo’s Thinkpad X1 Nano — the company's thinnest and lightest ThinkPad at under two pounds. As usual, slimming things down comes with some trade offs, and Cherlynn Low tells us where the ...

Feb 27, 2021

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Nanoparticles help untangle Alzheimer's disease amyloid beta plaques: New research shows that the protein that causes Alzheimer's disease's hallmark brain plaques clings to certain bowl-shaped nanoparticles, allowing researchers to better understand the disease and potentially pr

Nanotechnology Now   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Scientists are still a long way from being able to treat Alzheimer's Disease, in part because the protein aggregates that can become brain plaques, a hallmark of the disease, are hard to study. The pl...

Feb 27, 2021

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: From microsaws to nanodrills: laser pulses act as subtle machining tools: Industrial-grade materials processing on the sub-micron scale is enabled by spatially structured ultrashort laser pulses

Nanotechnology Now   -   Nanotechnology Websites

If light is strongly concentrated in time and space, resulting in extreme photon densities, it can enable interaction with all conceivable materials. By using these ultrashort laser foci, even transpa...

Feb 27, 2021

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Changing the silkworm's diet to spin stronger silk

Nanotechnology Now   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Tohoku University researchers have produced cellulose nanofiber (CNF) synthesized silk naturally through a simple tweak to silkworms' diet. Mixing CNF with commercially available food and feeding the...

Feb 27, 2021

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