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Innovative Nanofiber Membranes Boost Cloth Masks to Block Up to 99% of COVID-19 Virus Particles

SciTechDaily   -   Scientific News Websites

The cloth masks many are sporting these days offer some protection against COVID-19. However, they typically provide much less than the professional N95 masks used... The post Innovative Nanofiber Membranes Boost Cloth Masks to Block Up to 99% of...

Oct 30, 2020

Scientists Make Electrifying Diamond Find

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Diamond could conduct electricity like metals when it is deformed to strains at the nanoscale, according to predictions from a study by an international team... The post Scientists Make Electrifying Diamond Find appeared first on SciTechDaily. ...

Oct 30, 2020

Flash graphene rocks strategy for plastic waste: Rice University lab detours potential environmental hazard into useful material

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Scientists advance a new technique to make graphene from waste with a focus on plastic.

Oct 30, 2020

Flash graphene rocks strategy for plastic waste

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Plastic waste comes back in black as pristine graphene, thanks to ACDC.

Oct 30, 2020

Proton membranes assembled from 2-D layered phosphorus nanosheets

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

A team of researchers affiliated with a host of institutions in China has developed a new class of proton-exchange membranes (PEMs) assembled from transition-metal phosphorus trichalcogenide nanosheets. In their paper published in the journal Scie...

Oct 30, 2020

The road to achieving single molecular spectroscopy using nanoIR

News Medical   -   Scientific News Websites

In this interview, XXXXX speaks to News-Medical about their research into biomolecules and the methods that are helping to achieve spectra at the single-molecule scale.

Oct 30, 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) have proposed a new approach to describe the interaction of metals with electromagnetic fluctuations (i.e., with random bursts of electric and magnetic fields). The...

Oct 30, 2020

Researchers Suggest New Way for Making Graphene-Based Nanodiamond

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An easy way to form nanoscale diamonds would be to combine two layers of graphene but, at times, thicker can turn out to be better. Rice University researchers have expanded their theory on...

Oct 30, 2020

Nanomechanical indentation measurements with force spectroscopy

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Taking advantage of its piconewton force and sub-nanometer displacement resolution, atomic force microscopy (AFM) is uniquely suited to measure nanoscale mechanical properties, especially when it comes to soft materials. Force spectroscopy is a us...

Oct 30, 2020

Plastic waste comes back in black as pristine graphene

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

In a process they call ACDC, researchers expose plastic waste to around eight seconds of high-intensity alternating current, followed by the DC jolt. The products are high-quality turbostratic graphene, a valuable and soluble substance that can be...

Oct 30, 2020

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