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Sheets of carbon nanotubes come in a rainbow of colors

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Nanomaterials researchers in Finland, the United States and China have created a color atlas for 466 unique varieties of single-walled carbon nanotubes.

Dec 14, 2020

Chemists from RUDN University used crab shells to improve palladium catalysts

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?hemists 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.

Dec 14, 2020

Chemists from RUDN University synthesized chitin-based antibiotics

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Chemists from RUDN University discovered previously unknown derivatives of chitin, a biopolymer that forms the exoskeletons of insects and carapaces of crayfish and other arthropods. The new compounds and their nanoparticles have antibacterial pro...

Dec 14, 2020

When less is more: A single layer of atoms boosts the nonlinear generation of light

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A wide array of technologies, ranging from lasers and optical telecommunication to quantum computing rely on nonlinear optical interaction. Typically, these nonlinear interactions, which allow a beam of light, for example, to change its frequency,...

Dec 14, 2020

Toward imperceptible electronics that you cannot see or feel

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Researchers from Osaka University 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 ...

Dec 14, 2020

SMART researchers engineer a plant-based sensor to monitor arsenic levels in soil

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Nanoscale devices integrated into the leaves of living plants can detect the toxic heavy metal in real time.

Dec 13, 2020

Eye Treatment Stretches Mouse Sight Beyond Visible Spectrum

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Nanoparticles that attach to photoreceptors allowed mice to see infrared and near-infrared light for up to two months. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Dec 12, 2020

Atom-thin transistor uses half the voltage of common semiconductors, boosts current density

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University at Buffalo researchers is reporting a new, two-dimensional transistor made of graphene and the compound molybdenum disulfide

Dec 12, 2020

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: In new step toward quantum tech, scientists synthesize 'bright' quantum bits: Innovative step by Northwestern, UChicago scientists could boost computing, sensing

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With their ability to harness the strange powers of quantum mechanics, qubits are the basis for potentially world-changing technologies--like powerful new types of computers or ultra-precise sensors.

Dec 11, 2020

Explained: Quantum engineering

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Quantum computers could usher in a golden age of computing power, solving problems intractable on today’s machines. Since

Dec 11, 2020

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