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Windows become transparent solar panels with added nanoparticles

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Windows can be converted into solar panels by sandwiching nanoparticles between panes of glass – which could make them useful in cities where space for solar panels may be limited

Sep 7, 2020

Windows become transparent solar panels with added nanoparticles

New Scientist   -   Scientific News Websites

Windows can be converted into solar panels by sandwiching nanoparticles between panes of glass – which could make them useful in cities where space for solar panels may be limited

Sep 7, 2020

Flat bands appear in buckled graphene superlattices – Physics World

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Result offers a new way of creating correlated states in 2D carbon, physicists say The post Flat bands appear in buckled graphene superlattices appeared first on Physics World.

Sep 7, 2020

Autonomous Robot Plays with NanoLEGO

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Molecules are the building blocks of everyday life. Many materials are composed of them, a little like a LEGO model consists of a multitude of different bricks. But while individual LEGO bricks can be simply shifted or removed, this is not so eas...

Sep 7, 2020

Photocatalysts show promise in creating self-cleaning surfaces and disinfecting agents

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A joint paper by Kazan Federal University, Boreskov Institute of Catalysis, and Russian Oil and Gas University was published in Chemistry - A European Journal. The team produced and studied new active photocatalysts based on natural aluminosilica...

Sep 7, 2020

Potential of Periodic Array System Supports Nanophotonics Applications

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A research team from the University of New Mexico (UNM) and the Autonomous University of Madrid has applied periodic arrays containing nanoparticles of different sizes — as opposed to more conventional arrays that contain nanoparticles of a singul...

Sep 7, 2020

New Nano-Confinement Method Helps Form Sub-Nanometer Reactors for Electrocatalysis

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In electrocatalysis processes, single-atom catalysts (SACs) exhibit high potential as they tend to utilize atomic-scale active species to the maximum possible extent. TEM image of a triple-atom...

Sep 7, 2020

A tiny instrument to measure the faintest magnetic fields

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Physicists have developed a minuscule instrument able to detect extremely faint magnetic fields. At the heart of the superconducting quantum interference device are two atomically thin layers of graphene, which the researchers combined with boron ...

Sep 7, 2020

Molecule’s electronic structure is simulated on a quantum computer – Physics World

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Hartree-Fock calculations done on Google’s Sycamore machine The post Molecule’s electronic structure is simulated on a quantum computer appeared first on Physics World.

Sep 5, 2020

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Painting With Light: Novel Nanopillars Precisely Control the Color and Intensity of Transmitted Light

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By shining white light on a glass slide stippled with millions of tiny titanium dioxide pillars, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their collaborators have r...

Sep 5, 2020

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