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Researchers create interlocked self-assembled rings that contain just one molecular ingredient

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An international team of researchers has succeeded in forming and studying self-assembled interlocked rings called 'nano-poly[n]catanenes' that contain just one molecular ingredient.

Jul 17, 2020

New technology promises to revolutionize nanomedicine

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Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and their colleagues from Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry and Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences have developed a breakthro...

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

Researchers realize nanoscale electrometry based on magnetic-field-resistant spin sensor

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USTC researchers proposed a robust electrometric method utilizing continuous dynamic decoupling (CDD) technique, where the continuous driving fields provide a magnetic-field-resistant dressed frame.

Jul 17, 2020

N-doped carbon encapsulated transition metal catalysts to optimize performance of zinc-air batteries

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In a report published in NANO, a team of researchers from Sichuan University of Science and Engineering, China have developed N-doped carbon encapsulated transition metal catalysts for oxygen reduction reactions (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction...

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 supercapacitors el...

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

Chemical thermometers take temperature to the nanometric scale

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Scientists from the Coordination Chemistry Laboratory and Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems, both of the CNRS, recently developed molecular films that can measure the operating temperature of electronic components on a nanometric...

Jul 17, 2020

New study reveals a graphene sheet behaves 'like a mirror' for water molecules

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A recently published study led by Virginia Commonwealth University researchers sheds new light on how water interacts with the nanomaterial graphene, a single, thin layer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal honeycomb lattice.

Jul 16, 2020

Regular arrays of silicon nanoparticles key to improving light emissions in nanophotonic devices

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Nanophotonics considers how light and matter at the nanoscale interact with each other, with findings in the field being important for nanofabrication techniques and in future photonic devices. Until recently, metallic nanoparticles have been pred...

Jul 16, 2020

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