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Sheets of carbon nanotubes come in a rainbow of colours

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

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

Dec 14, 2020

Artificial Chemist 2.0: Custom quantum dots in less than an hour

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

A new technology, called Artificial Chemist 2.0, allows users to go from requesting a custom quantum dot to completing the relevant R+D and beginning manufacturing in less than an hour. The tech is completely autonomous, and uses artificial intell...

Dec 14, 2020

Nanoengineered cement shows promise for sealing leaky gas wells

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Leaking natural gas wells are considered a potential source of methane emissions, and a new nanomaterial cement mixture could provide an effective, affordable solution for sealing these wells, according to a team of Penn State scientists.

Dec 14, 2020

'Magic' angle graphene and the creation of unexpected topological quantum states

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Electrons inhabit a strange and topsy-turvy world. These infinitesimally small particles have never ceased to amaze and mystify despite the more than a century that scientists have studied them. Now, in an even more amazing twist, physicists have ...

Dec 14, 2020

International research project investigates photosensitive carbon nanoparticles

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An international team of researchers, including researchers from FAU headed by Prof. Dr. Dirk M. Guldi have now managed to identify the fundamental problems relating to the photophysics and photochemistry of carbon nanocolloids (CNC), and ascertai...

Dec 14, 2020

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

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