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'Janus' nanorods convert light to heat that can destroy pollutants in water

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

With a new nanoparticle that converts light to heat, a team of researchers has found a promising technology for clearing water of pollutants.

Jun 23, 2020

South Korea Makes Progress to Lithium-Oxygen Batteries With Ten Times Higher Energy Densities

NextBigFuture   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers have presented a novel electrode material for advanced energy storage device that is directly charged with oxygen from the air. Professor Jeung Ku Kang’s team synthesized and preserved the sub-nanometric particles of atomic cluster siz...

Jun 23, 2020

Nanomaterials used as broad-spectrum antimicrobial agents for first time

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

In a significant breakthrough in the battle against antibiotic resistance, a research team from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has synthesized a nanomaterial that mimics an enzyme and can disintegrate the cell membranes of a range of disea...

Jun 23, 2020

Nanosafety research without animal experiments

chemeurope.com   -   Scientific News Websites

In order to reduce the number of animal experiments in research, alternative methods are being sought. This is a particular challenge if the safety of substances that have hardly been studied is to be ensured, for instance, the completely new cla...

Jun 23, 2020

New gold nanoparticle purifies water of difficult pollutants

Technology Org   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers have found a promising technology for clearing water of pollutants: a new nanoparticle that converts light to heat. Trace amounts of contaminants such as pesticides, pharmaceuticals, and perfluorooctanoic acid in sources of drinking wa...

Jun 23, 2020

New Research on Teleportation Brings Quantum Computing a Step Closer

Technology Org   -   Scientific News Websites

In a paper published in Nature Communications (and one to appear in Physical Review X), researchers from the

Jun 23, 2020

Study Demonstrate Pathway of Uptake, Transport of Nanoplastics in Plant Root

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

As concern grows among environmentalists and consumers about micro- and nanoplastics in the oceans and in seafood, they are increasingly studied in marine environments, say Baoshan Xing at the...

Jun 23, 2020

New Light-Powered Nanocatalyst can Break Chemical Bonds in Fluorocarbons

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Rice University engineers have created a light-powered catalyst that can break the strong chemical bonds in fluorocarbons, a group of synthetic materials that includes persistent environmental...

Jun 23, 2020

Twisted WSe2 as a highly tunable platform for the study of exotic phenomena

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers report that the twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenide WSe2 enables the realization of exotic correlated phenomena, including high-Tc superconductivity and correlated insulators, in a controlled manner and without the geometri...

Jun 23, 2020

'Unboil an egg' machine creates improved bacteria detector

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Traditional fluorescent dyes to examine bacteria viability are toxic and suffer poor photostability - but using the Vortex Fluidic Device has enabled the preparation of a new generation of aggregation-induced emission dye luminogens using graphene...

Jun 23, 2020

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