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Smart fluorescent molecular switches based on boron-based compounds

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Scientists have developed extremely stable molecular switches of high luminosity that self-assemble into 1D nanostructures and form gel-like materials. These molecular switches can be used in biomedicine as fluorescent probes for imaging or sensin...

Oct 29, 2020

Microfluidizer Enables Scalable Production of High Conductivity Carbon Nanotubes

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Analytik reports on pioneering work undertaken by Professor Welland’s group at the Nanoscience Centre in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge (UK) using a LM20...

Oct 29, 2020

Scientists Explain the Paradox of Quantum Forces in Nanodevices

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Researchers from the Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) proposed a new approach to describe the interaction of metals with electromagnetic fluctuations (i.e., with random...

Oct 29, 2020

High-entropy alloy nanoparticles show excellent resistance to oxidation

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High-entropy alloys (HEAs), which are formed by combining nearly equal parts of several primary metals, are an emerging class of advanced materials that hold great potential for creating materials with superior mechanical, thermal, and catalytic p...

Oct 29, 2020

Nanoparticle Developed to Target “Achilles Heel” of Coronavirus – Could Be Key for Effective COVID-19 Vaccine

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Changing the makeup of a specific protein has the potential to neutralize the virus. A University at Buffalo-led research team has discovered a technique that... The post Nanoparticle Developed to Target “Achilles Heel” of Coronavirus – Could Be ...

Oct 29, 2020

Rice finds path to nanodiamond from graphene

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Rice University researchers expand their theory on converting graphene into 2D diamond, or diamane.

Oct 29, 2020

Breakthrough quantum-dot transistors create a flexible alternative to conventional electronics

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Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory and their collaborators from the University of California, Irvine have created fundamental electronic building blocks out of tiny structures known as quantum dots and used them to assemble functional l...

Oct 29, 2020

Order in the disorder:

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For the first time, a team at HZB has identified the atomic substructure of amorphous silicon with a resolution of 0.8 nanometres using X-ray and neutron scattering at BESSY II and BER II. Such a-Si:H thin films have been used for decades in solar...

Oct 29, 2020

Chemical scissors snip 2D transition metal dichalcogenides into nanoribbon

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One of the biggest challenges in making hydrogen production clean and cheap has been finding an alternative catalyst necessary for the chemical reaction that produces the gas, one that is much cheaper and abundant than the very expensive and rare ...

Oct 29, 2020

Graphene-based memory resistors show promise for brain-based computing

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As progress in traditional computing slows, new forms of computing are coming to the forefront. At Penn State, a team of engineers is attempting to pioneer a type of computing that mimics the efficiency of the brain's neural networks while ex...

Oct 29, 2020

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