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Purdue Team Patents Atomically Thin Material

Photonics Media   -   Scientific News Websites

A team from Purdue University has received a patent for a 2D nanomaterial that has potential for use in nanoelectronics, quantum devices, and infrared technology used in national defense tools and biochemical sensors. The material is derived fro...

Sep 9, 2020

Scientists Excite Magnons in Nanostructures

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Physicists from MIPT and the Russian Quantum Center, joined by colleagues from Saratov State University and Michigan Technological University, have demonstrated new methods for controlling spin...

Sep 9, 2020

The GoNano project: Governing nanotechnologies through societal engagement

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

The EU-funded GoNano project explored how co-creation can be used to enhance the responsiveness of nanotechnology research and innovation. Responsiveness is understood as the capacity and willingness of researchers and developers to integrate soci...

Sep 9, 2020

A chemist from RUDN developed a new type of one-molecule thick water-repellent film

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

A chemist from RUDN University together with colleagues created a new type of two-dimensional nanofilm from an organic material called calixarene. The invention can be used as a protective coating in electronics and as a part of molecular filters....

Sep 9, 2020

Sampling the gut microbiome with an ingestible pill

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Gut microbes affect human health, but there is still much to learn, in part because they're not easy to collect. But researchers now report in ACS Nano that they have developed an ingestible capsule that in rat studies captured bacteria and o...

Sep 9, 2020

Boundaries no barrier for thermoelectricity: Rice researchers find potentially useful electrical phenomenon in gold nanowires

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Researchers show how thermoelectricity hurdles some defects, but not others, in gold nanowires. The discovery has implications for making better thin-film electronic devices.

Sep 8, 2020

New nanosystem enhances treatment for melanoma in animal models: Novel approach doubles therapeutic effectiveness of medications

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Researchers have developed an innovative nanotechnological drug delivery system that significantly enhances the effectiveness of treatment for the aggressive skin cancer melanoma.

Sep 8, 2020

Peel-apart surfaces drive transistors to the ledge

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Semiconductor manufacturers are paying more attention to two-dimensional materials, such as transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), following the discovery, at KAUST, of an epitaxial growth process of single-crystal TMDs nanoribbons.

Sep 8, 2020

Bio-based resin: A breakthrough in rapid prototyping

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Lithuanian researchers from Kaunas University of Technology and Vilnius University synthesized and tested a bio-based resin for optical 3-D printing (O3DP). The bio-based resin made from renewable raw materials proved to be universal for both tabl...

Sep 8, 2020

Physicists achieve tunable spin wave excitation

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Physicists from MIPT and the Russian Quantum Center, joined by colleagues from Saratov State University and Michigan Technological University, have demonstrated new methods for controlling spin waves in nanostructured bismuth iron garnet films via...

Sep 8, 2020

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