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Using a Graphene-Based Electrochemical Sensor to Detect COVID-19 in Under Five Minutes

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Image Credit: Shutterstock.com/ Forance A new graphene-based sensor could speed up the detection of COVID-19, helping limit this global pandemic. The COVID-19 crisis has changed the way we think...

Dec 14, 2020

When chemistry with green light mimics what happens in life

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Taking inspiration from nature, researchers created a green light-stabilized 3D polymer structure that unfolds itself when left in darkness - the first reported example of a reversible, light-triggered process to fold polymers into single chain na...

Dec 14, 2020

Toward imperceptible electronics that you cannot see or feel

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Researchers have fabricated transparent, ultrathin, flexible sensors with cross-aligned silver nanowire microelectronics fabricated using print technique that would be inexpensive and straightforward to mass-produce. This advance will find much us...

Dec 14, 2020

Bacterial nanopores open the future of data storage

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Bioengineers have developed a nanopore-based system that can read data encoded into synthetic macromolecules with higher accuracy and resolution than similar methods on the market. The system is also potentially cheaper and longer-lasting, and ove...

Dec 14, 2020

Nanosurf introduces a cutting-edge tip-scanning atomic force microscope

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Nanosurf has launched the DriveAFM - a high-performance tip-scanning AFM that incorporates innovative technologies.

Dec 14, 2020

Using crab shells to improve palladium catalyst nanoparticles

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Chemists 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.

Dec 14, 2020

Nanoparticles, from hype to actual clinical product

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Scientists investigated a robust and scalable manufacturing process for nanocarriers and their building blocks. With these insights, the road to widely available clinical applications for nanocarriers has become much shorter.

Dec 14, 2020

Nanosurf Introduces Cutting-Edge Tip-Scanning Atomic Force Microscope

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Nanosurf, a global provider of scanning probe microscopes, has launched the DriveAFM — a high-performance tip-scanning AFM that incorporates innovative technologies. The DriveAFM was is...

Dec 14, 2020

Sheets of carbon nanotubes come in a rainbow of colors: Nanotube films come in 466 colors, could be used in electronics, solar panels

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Nanomaterials researchers have created a color atlas for 466 unique varieties of single-walled carbon nanotubes.

Dec 14, 2020

Nanoparticles, from hype to actual clinical product

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Ph.D. candidate Jaleesa Bresseleers, of the TU/e department of Biomedical Engineering, investigated a robust and scalable manufacturing process for nanocarriers and their building blocks. With these insights, the road to widely available clinical ...

Dec 14, 2020

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