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Researchers create better material for wearable biosensors

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Researchers at Binghamton University, State University of New York have used electrospinning to make porous silicone that allows sweat to evaporate.

Sep 16, 2020

Researchers discover effective pathway to convert CO2 into ethylene

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The scientists developed nanoscale copper wires with specially shaped surfaces to catalyze a chemical reaction that reduces greenhouse gas emissions while generating ethylene -- a valuable chemical simultaneously.

Sep 16, 2020

Physicists make electrical nanolasers even smaller

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Researchers cleared the obstacle that had prevented the creation of electrically driven nanolasers for integrated circuits. The approach enables coherent light source design on the scale not only hundreds of times smaller than the thickness of a h...

Sep 16, 2020

Microsoft and University of Copenhagen collaboration yields promising material for quantum computing

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Researchers at the Microsoft Quantum Materials Lab and the University of Copenhagen, working closely together, have succeeded in realizing an important and promising material for use in a future quantum computer. For this end, the researchers have...

Sep 16, 2020

Novel photoresist enables 3D printing of smallest porous structures

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Researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Heidelberg University have developed a photoresist for two-photon microprinting. It has now been used for the first time to produce three-dimensional polymer microstructures with cavities ...

Sep 16, 2020

Energy Harvesting Goes Organic: Self-Assembled Peptides for Electricity Generation

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Self-assembled peptides, when aligned, show great promise for electricity generation. Nanogenerators capable of converting mechanical energy into electricity are typically made from metal oxides and... The post Energy Harvesting Goes Organic: Sel...

Sep 15, 2020

Sub-nanoparticle catalysts made from coinage elements as effective catalysts

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Due to their small size, nanoparticles find varied applications in fields ranging from medicine to electronics. Their small size allows them a high reactivity and semiconducting property not found in the bulk states. Sub-nanoparticles (SNPs) have ...

Sep 15, 2020

Going small for big solutions: Sub-nanoparticle catalysts made from coinage elements as effective catalysts

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'Sub-nanometer' particles (SNPs) are very popular because of their diverse applications, but technical difficulties in their synthesis has hindered research in this field. Scientists used an 'atom-hybridization method' to overc...

Sep 15, 2020

Energy harvesting goes organic, gets more flexible: Self-assembled peptides, when aligned, show great promise for electricity generation.

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The race is on to create natural biocompatible piezoelectric materials for energy harvesting, electronic sensing, and stimulating nerves. A group of researchers has explored peptide-based nanotubes and reports using a combination of ultraviolet an...

Sep 15, 2020

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Gentle probes could enable massive brain data collection: National Institutes of Health backing Rice�s Chong Xie to refine flexible nanoelectronics thread

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University engineers will gain a better understanding of brain activity over time with the support of the National Institutes of Health.

Sep 15, 2020

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