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Anode material for safe batteries with a long cycle life: Lithium lanthanum titanate particles enable high power densities even in micrometer sizes

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Researchers investigated a highly promising anode material for future high-performance batteries - lithium lanthanum titanate with a perovskite crystal structure (LLTO). Researchers can improve the energy density, power density, charging rate, saf...

Aug 6, 2020

A nanoparticle strategy to evaluate tumor photothermal therapy in real-time

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers reported an 'intelligent' strategy of using organic nanoparticles to evaluate photothermal therapy efficiency on tumor in real time.

Aug 6, 2020

A closer look at water-splitting's solar fuel potential: Scientists at Berkeley Lab and the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis zero in on bismuth vanadate's role in renewable energy at the nanoscale

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Scientists have gained important new insight into how the performance of a promising semiconducting thin film can be optimized at the nanoscale for renewable energy technologies such as solar fuels.

Aug 6, 2020

Scientists zero in on bismuth vanadate's role in renewable energy at the nanoscale

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Scientists have gained important new insight into what might be happening at the nanoscale to hold bismuth vanadate back as a good candidate for photoelectrical water splitting.

Aug 6, 2020

Template-Free Synthesis of Mesoporous β-MnO2 Nanoparticles

chemeurope.com   -   Scientific News Websites

Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology explore a novel and simplistic method to synthesize manganese dioxide with a specific crystalline structure called β-MnO2. Their study sheds light on how different synthesis conditions can produce manga...

Aug 6, 2020

Novel approach improves graphene-based supercapacitors

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Demand for integrated energy storage devices is growing rapidly as people rely more and more on portable and wireless electronics, and the global need grows for clean energy sources such as solar and wind energies. This is creating an exponential...

Aug 6, 2020

Using machine intelligence to find the charge density wave phases of any 2D material

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Charge density wave (CDW) is a quantum mechanical phenomenon, which induces distortion in the crystal structures of some low-dimensional (1D or 2D) metals, when the temperature is reduced. Such distorted crystal structure is known as CDW phase and...

Aug 6, 2020

Way, shape and form: Synthesis conditions define the nanostructure of manganese dioxide

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

The study sheds light on how different synthesis conditions can produce manganese dioxide with distinct porous structures, hinting at a strategy for the development of highly tuned MnO2 nanomaterials that could serve as catalysts in the fabricatio...

Aug 6, 2020

Nanoparticle system captures heart-disease biomarker from blood for in-depth analysis

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Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a method combining sticky nanoparticles with high-precision protein measurement to capture and analyze a common marker of heart disease to reveal details that were previously inacce...

Aug 6, 2020

Anode material for safe batteries with a long cycle life

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Jilin University in Changchun/China investigated a highly promising anode material for future high-performance batteries - lithium lanthanum titanate with a perovskite crystal structure (L...

Aug 6, 2020

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