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New Nanostructure may Shed Light on Chemical Bonding Behavior of Boron Lanthanides

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The discovery of carbon nanostructures like two-dimensional graphene and soccer ball-shaped buckyballs helped to launch a nanotechnology revolution. In recent years, researchers from Brown University...

Jun 26, 2020

Researchers Develop New Mechanism to Obtain Metal “Nanoscrews”

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Led by the Ikerbasque professor Luis Liz-Marzán, researchers at the Centre for Cooperative Research in Biomaterials CIC biomaGUNE have developed a mechanism by which gold atoms are deposited by...

Jun 26, 2020

Park Systems Announces Online Special Edition “NanoScientific Symposium on Nano Applications for Today’s Changing World”

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Park Systems presents “NanoScientific Symposium on Nano Applications for a Changing World” sponsored by Physics World and Nanotechnology World Association. Park Systems launched this online event for researchers and scientists in nanoscience and n...

Jun 26, 2020

Ceramic Metamaterial Solar Sails Could Enable 300 Kilometers per Second | NextBigFuture.com

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Extreme metamaterial solar sails as proposed here have the potential to shift the paradigm of space exploration enabling numerous low cost and high-speed missions to be launched anytime and anywhere. Such sails could gain accelerations over 60AU/y...

Jun 26, 2020

IO hybrid adsorbent to remove hazardous Cadmium(II) from wastewater

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In a paper published in NANO, a group of researchers from Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, China have discovered an effective way to remove heavy metal Cadmium(II) from wastewater. This utilizes the surface-initiated atom-transfer radical ...

Jun 26, 2020

Process for 'two-faced' nanomaterials may aid energy, information tech

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A team led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory used a simple process to implant atoms precisely into the top layers of ultra-thin crystals, yielding two-sided structures with different chemical compositions. The result...

Jun 26, 2020

Cellulose for manufacturing advanced materials

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The last decade has seen an increase in scientific publications and patents on cellulose, the most abundant natural polymer. By reviewing these papers, a researcher in the UPV/EHU's Department of Graphic Design and Engineering Projects has ex...

Jun 26, 2020

Developing new techniques to improve atomic force microscopy

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Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a new method to improve the noise associated with nanoscale chemical imaging using atomic force microscopy. The improvements will increase the versatility and the preci...

Jun 26, 2020

Researchers develop method for producing precision diffraction gratings

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Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a method for the production of wavy surfaces with nanometer precision. In the future this method could be used, for instance, to make optical components for data transmission on the internet even more effic...

Jun 25, 2020

Researchers discover new boron-lanthanide nanostructure

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The discovery of carbon nanostructures like two-dimensional graphene and soccer ball-shaped buckyballs helped to launch a nanotechnology revolution. In recent years, researchers from Brown University and elsewhere have shown that boron, carbon...

Jun 25, 2020

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