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Researchers propose strategy to evaluate tumor photothermal therapy in real-time

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Researchers from USTC 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

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Scientists at Berkeley Lab and the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP) have gained important new insight into how the performance of a promising semiconducting thin film can be optimized at the nanoscale for renewable energy technolo...

Aug 6, 2020

Meeting Growing Demand for Increased Storage Capacity With Improved Graphene-Based Supercapacitors

SciTechDaily   -   Scientific News Websites

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... The post Meeting Growing Demand for Increased Storage Capacity With Improved Graphene-...

Aug 5, 2020

May the force be with you: Detecting ultrafast light by its force: From cell phones to solar cells - research has implications for improvements in a wide range of technologies

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A research team has developed a new technique to detect nano-sized imperfections in materials. They believe this discovery will lead to improvements in the optical detectors used in a wide range of technologies, from cell phones to cameras and fib...

Aug 5, 2020

May the force be with you: Detecting ultrafast light by its force

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

A McGill research team has developed a new technique to detect nano-sized imperfections in materials. They believe this discovery will lead to improvements in the optical detectors used in a wide range of technologies, from cell phones to cameras ...

Aug 5, 2020

May the nanoscale force be with you: Detecting ultrafast light by its force

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

A research team has developed a new technique to detect nano-sized imperfections in materials. They believe this discovery will lead to improvements in the optical detectors used in a wide range of technologies, from cell phones to cameras and fib...

Aug 5, 2020

Breaking the absorption limit of silicon toward the short-wavelength infrared wavelength range via strain engineering

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Silicon is widely used in the microelectronics industry although its photonics applications are restricted to the visible and partial near-infrared spectral range due to its fundamental optical bandgap. Researchers have therefore used recent advan...

Aug 5, 2020

Moth eyes inspire anti-icing surface for aircraft, and maybe eyewear

New Atlas   -   Scientific News Websites

The unique arrangement of nanoscale bumps coating a moth’s eye have inspired all kinds of interesting technological advances, owing to the incredible antireflective properties that allow the eye to absorb almost all the light that hits it. These r...

Aug 5, 2020

Cutting 2D materials with a heated scanning nanotip

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers have developed a one-step lithography technique, also named direct nanocutting, for monolayer 2D materials using a thermomechanical indentation method.

Aug 5, 2020

Nanoparticles with Plasmonic Effect Boost Photocatalysis

Photonics Media   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) developed a method for assembling plasmonic nanoparticles for specific applications. Their approach was to synthesize so-called core-shell clusters inside helium nanodroplets, with subsequent ...

Aug 5, 2020

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