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Researchers clarify the microscopic origin of dissipation with graphene

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Scientists have provided supporting evidence for the existence of a nonlinear dissipation mechanism in mechanical systems.

Feb 18, 2021

Novel tools for biomedical applications: Bacterial magnetic nanoparticles

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Magnetic nanoparticles biosynthesized by bacteria might soon play an important role in biomedicine and biotechnology. Researchers have now developed and optimised a process for the isolation and purification of these particles from bacterial cells.

Feb 18, 2021

Nanofibers for quantum technologies at room temperature

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Atomic vapors are among the most promising platforms for constituting the nodes of future quantum networks. Researchers have now realized a unique interface between an extremely thin optical fiber and an atomic vapor at ambient temperatures.

Feb 18, 2021

Graphene Enables Live Cell Imaging at the Nanoscale

Photonics Media   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers at the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Technology (DGIST) have introduced a method for analyzing subcellular structures using graphene. The work holds implications for the research of biological processes such as the mechanisms of certain...

Feb 18, 2021

3D-Printed Technique Helps Create Perovskite-Graphene Detectors

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Ever since X-rays were discovered by Wilhelm Röntgen in 1895, they have become a standard in medical imaging. Example of the deposited perovskite pillars, defining a pixel for the creation of...

Feb 18, 2021

Kagome graphene promises exciting properties

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For the first time, physicists from the University of Basel have produced a graphene compound consisting of carbon atoms and a small number of nitrogen atoms in a regular grid of hexagons and triangles. This honeycomb-structured “kagome lattice” ...

Feb 18, 2021

Researchers advance bioinspired nanotechnology to enhance blood clotting to stop severe traumatic bleeding

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A team of researchers is working toward innovating and advancing platelet-inspired nanotechnology systems to treat severe bleeding in surgery and trauma.

Feb 18, 2021

Energy-harvesting nanogenerator technology to make roads safer

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Researchers used recycled plastic cups and silk cocoon waste to develop a soft and skin-friendly self-powered sensor, which can be used to sense human activities.

Feb 18, 2021

Colloidal quantum dot lasers poised to come of age

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Despite lingering obstacles, practical lasing devices based on these tiny specs of semiconductor matter are just around the corner.

Feb 18, 2021

Adding kinks to graphene strips creates the world's tiniest microchip

New Atlas   -   Scientific News Websites

Graphene itself has some incredibly useful properties, as an ultra-strong, ultra-thin and flexible conductor of heat and electricity. By making alterations to the underlying structure of this wonder material, scientists at the University of Sussex...

Feb 18, 2021

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