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Researchers Modify the Properties of Graphene for Use in Electronics

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An international research team involving Professor Federico Rosei of the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) has demonstrated a novel process to modify the structure and properties...

Dec 17, 2020

Scientists discover insulator-to-semiconductor transition in fluorescent carbon quantum dots

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Recently, researchers led by Prof. XU Wen from the Institute of Solid State Physics of the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS), along with their collaborators from the Southwest University in Chongqing, applied the Terahertz time domain s...

Dec 17, 2020

Study Helps Understand How Light and Matter Interact at the Nanoscale

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A group of researchers has now resolved the longstanding question of how electrons move collectively as a group within cylindrical nanoparticles. A pair of cylindrical gold nanoparticles, where the...

Dec 17, 2020

Chemists used crab shells to improve palladium catalysts

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Chemists from RUDN University synthesized soluble biopolymers based on chitin from crab shells. Together with palladium, they form effective catalysts for organic reactions, and their nanoparticles can be re-used over ten times. Palladium-based c...

Dec 17, 2020

Natural Nanodiamonds in Oceanic Rocks – Formed Through Low Pressure and Temperature Geological Processes

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Natural diamonds can form through low pressure and temperature geological processes on Earth, as stated in an article published in the journal Geochemical Perspectives Letters.... The post Natural Nanodiamonds in Oceanic Rocks – Formed Through Lo...

Dec 17, 2020

Solutions for Better Biosecurity in World Shipping Channels

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Nanoscale changes to industrial coatings can make them stronger, more environmentally friendly and better biosecurity barriers to block marine pest invasions of ports and coastlines. Mats Andersson...

Dec 17, 2020

Stevens creates entangled photons 100 times more efficiently than previously possible

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Super-fast quantum computers and communication devices could revolutionize countless aspects of our lives -- but first, researchers need a fast, efficient source of the entangled pairs of photons such systems use to transmit and manipulate informa...

Dec 17, 2020

New nanobiomaterial from the silk of a mite with 'promising biomedical properties'

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An international team of researchers has developed a new nanomaterial from the silk produced by the Tetranychus lintearius mite. This nanomaterial has the ability to penetrate human cells without damaging them and, therefore, has "promising b...

Dec 17, 2020

Pulp succeeded in diet? Determining the slenderization of wood pulp

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Osaka University scientists devise a system for measuring the quality of nanofibrillation for wood pulp using its natural optical birefringence. This work may lead to clear definition and sophisticated utilization of wooden cellulose nanofibers.

Dec 17, 2020

Organic molecules on a metal surface... a machinist's best friend

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Purdue University innovators are working on technologies to make it easier to cut metals. The researchers found, using organic monolayer films created by molecular self-assembly, that the molecule chain length and its adsorption to the metal surfa...

Dec 17, 2020

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