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

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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 mangan...

Jul 31, 2020

When Dirac meets frustrated magnetism

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Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics have discovered one of the largest anomalous Hall effects (15,506 siemens per centimeter at 2 Kelvin) ever observed in the new compound, KV3Sb5. This material has a never-before-seen...

Jul 31, 2020

A new synthesis method for three-dimensional nanocarbons

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A Nagoya University team has developed a new method of synthesis for three-dimensional nanocarbons, utilizing a catalytic reaction to connect benzene rings and create an eight-membered ring structure. This represents a breakthrough in the synthesi...

Jul 31, 2020

Nano-sponges of solid acid transform carbon dioxide to fuel and plastic waste to chemicals

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The primary cause of climate change is atmospheric CO2, whose levels are rising every day. There is, therefore, a great need to find ways to reduce CO2 levels. On other hand, an excessive amount of plastic waste has become a serious environmental ...

Jul 31, 2020

Building a Quantum Computing Workforce from the Ground Up

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Industry and academia are joining forces to establish a work force that meet the demands of a burgeoning field of quantum computing

Jul 30, 2020

Using protons to tune interlayer forces in van-der-Waals materials: Interlayer coupling in FGT successfully increased by insertion of protons

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Scientists have demonstrated for the first time that interlayer coupling in a van der Waals (vdW) material can be largely modulated by a protonic gate, 'injecting' protons into the device. The same weak interlayer forces that make vdW ma...

Jul 30, 2020

Magnetic gold nanohybrid will help fight cancer

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A team of NUST MISIS scientists, together with colleagues from Russia and Germany, have presented a detailed study of magnetite-gold nanohybrids. In the future, such nanoparticles can help in theranostics—the diagnostics and subsequent therapy of ...

Jul 30, 2020

Deesha Shah Awarded 2020 Teddi C. Laurin Scholarship

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Shah is a doctoral student in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, co-supervised by professors Vladimir Shalaev and Alexandra Boltasseva. Her research includes the development of plasmonic thin films, particularl...

Jul 30, 2020

Researchers synthesize nanoparticles tailored for special applications

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Whether in innovative high-tech materials, more powerful computer chips, pharmaceuticals or in the field of renewable energies, nanoparticles form the basis for a whole range of new technological developments. Due to the laws of quantum mechanics,...

Jul 30, 2020

Researchers make major, concerning microplastics discovery

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Researchers from University College Cork have discovered that microplastics (plastic pieces smaller than 5 mm) in our freshwaters are being broken down into even smaller nanoplastics (smaller than 1 µm, at least five thousand times smaller in size...

Jul 30, 2020

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