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Volt Carbon and its subsidiary Solid UltraBattery awarded DAIR funding

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Volt Carbon Technologies, in collaboration with Downsview Aerospace Innovation & Research (DAIR), has announced that both Volt Carbon's southern Ontario-based mineral processing operation (Toronto) and its subsidiary, Solid UltraBatte...

Nov 16, 2024

Moving graphene from the lab to fab: How 2D materials could transform everyday electronics

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Graphene has lived up to its promise in the lab. Now, EU researchers are working on supporting its wider adoption in high-end electronics, photonics and sensors.

Nov 15, 2024

A mechanical metamaterial with novel stretching properties

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Metamaterials are artificial materials that do not occur in nature. Their components function like atoms in conventional materials but have special optical, electrical and magnetic properties. Interaction between the components is crucial to a met...

Nov 15, 2024

Lyten to acquire battery manufacturing assets from Northvolt

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Lyten has announced that it is acquiring manufacturing assets from Northvolt, a Swedish battery manufacturer facing financial difficulties.

Nov 15, 2024

Researchers use nanotechnology to boost benefits of anthocyanin

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An article published in the journal Food Research International describes a study in which nanoencapsulated anthocyanins passed through the digestive system without being degraded, were absorbed efficiently, and reached more organs and tissues tha...

Nov 14, 2024

Discarded silk yarn can clean up polluted waterways—researchers develop hollow sphere silk particles to test adsorption

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Cornell researchers have developed an elegant and sustainable way to clean up waterways: reusing one waste product to remove another.

Nov 14, 2024

Scientists engineer stable protein complexes for targeted cancer therapies

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Researchers from Auburn University, partnering with the University of Basel in Switzerland, have discovered a new way to make a cancer-targeting protein complex more stable, opening doors to better cancer treatments. Led by Dr. Rafael Bernardi fro...

Nov 14, 2024

Detecting cancer in urine: Nanowire-based capture of micro-ribonucleic acids

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Cancer has a high death rate with delayed diagnosis of the disease being one of the main reasons for its fatality. Early diagnosis of cancer is vital to improving patient outcomes and in recent years, the development of diagnostic tools to detect ...

Nov 14, 2024

Designing a spiral ladder-inspired tool that allows precision control of light direction and polarization

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Photonics is the study of the generation, detection, and manipulation of light waves in the form of photons. One interesting property of light is polarization, defined by its electric and magnetic fields oscillating in any direction perpendicular ...

Nov 14, 2024

New method for pinpointing hydrogen isotopes in titanium hydride nanofilms could advance hydrogen storage

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Although it is the smallest and lightest atom, hydrogen can have a big impact by infiltrating other materials and affecting their properties, such as superconductivity and metal-insulator-transitions. Now, researchers from Japan have focused on fi...

Nov 14, 2024

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