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Nanostructure of Mosquito Eye Could Help Engineer Enhanced Water Repellent Coatings

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Researchers have theorized a coating that mimics the unique nanostructure could improve virus repellent face masks. Through the investigation of insect surfaces, Penn State researchers... The post Nanostructure of Mosquito Eye Could Help Engineer...

Jul 17, 2020

X-rays unearth novel nanofeatures in bone – Physics World

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New technique advances our understanding of bone nanostructure and how it relates to bone mechanics and bone disease The post X-rays unearth novel nanofeatures in bone appeared first on Physics World.

Jul 17, 2020

Enhanced water repellent surfaces discovered in nature: Researchers have theorized a coating that mimics the unique nanostructure could improve virus repellent face masks

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Through the investigation of insect surfaces, researchers have detailed a previously unidentified nanostructure that can be used to engineer stronger, more resilient water repellent coatings.

Jul 17, 2020

Enhanced water repellent surfaces discovered in nature

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Through the investigation of insect surfaces, Penn State researchers have detailed a previously unidentified nanostructure that can be used to engineer stronger, more resilient water repellent coatings.

Jul 17, 2020

How to teach gold to tell left from right

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Nanometer-sized gold particles consisting of only a few atoms can be used as catalysts for important chemical reactions. Noelia Barrabés from the Institute of Materials Chemistry at TU Wien has been researching new methods of adapting and precise...

Jul 17, 2020

Novel nanospectroscopy measures biomolecular changes induced by drugs in human cells

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Synchrotron InfraRed Nanospectroscopy has been used for the first time to measure biomolecular changes induced by a drug (amiodarone) within human cells (macrophages) and localized at 100 nanometre scale, i.e. two orders of magnitude smaller than ...

Jul 17, 2020

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Polymers self-assembling like links of a chain for innovative materials: Nature just published the research on unprecedented

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The "nanolimpiad", as the complex structure of self-assembled links has been named, looks like the five Olympic Rings and may become the source of new polymeric materials with innovative properties.

Jul 17, 2020

Mysterious mechanism of graphene oxide formation explained

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Natural graphite, used as the precursor for graphene oxide production, is a highly ordered crystalline inorganic material, which is believed to be formed by decay of organic matter. It is extremely thermodynamically stable and resistant to be conv...

Jul 17, 2020

Orderly arranged bead-chain ternary nanocomposites for supercapacitors

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Researchers have developed novel ternary nanocomposites by electrostatic spinning technology, which improved the performance of supercapacitors electrode materials.

Jul 17, 2020

Orderly arranged bead-chain ternary nanocomposites for supercapacitors

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In a paper published in Nano, a group of researchers from Jiangsu University of Technology, China have developed novel Cu2O-Mn3O4-NiO ternary nanocomposites by electrostatic spinning technology, which improved the performance of supercapacitor ele...

Jul 17, 2020

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