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Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Transparent graphene electrodes might lead to new generation of solar cells: New roll-to-roll production method could enable lightweight, flexible solar devices and a new generation of display screens

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A new way of making large sheets of high-quality, atomically thin graphene could lead to ultra-lightweight, flexible solar cells, and to new classes of light-emitting devices and other thin-film elect...

Jun 9, 2020

Examining a snapshot of exploding oxygen

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For more than 100 years, we have been using X-rays to look inside matter and progressing to ever smaller structures—from crystals to nanoparticles. Now, within the framework of a larger international collaboration on the X-ray laser European XFEL ...

Jun 9, 2020

Spontaneous formation of nanoscale hollow structures could boost battery storage

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An unexpected property of nanometer-scale antimony crystals—the spontaneous formation of hollow structures—could help give the next generation of lithium ion batteries higher energy density without reducing battery lifetime. The reversibly hollowi...

Jun 9, 2020

Machine learning predicts nanoparticles' structure and dynamics

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Researchers have demonstrated that new distance-based machine learning methods are capable of predicting structures and atomic dynamics of nanoparticles reliably. The new methods are significantly faster than traditional simulation methods used fo...

Jun 9, 2020

Spontaneous formation of nanoscale hollow structures could boost battery storage

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An unexpected property of nanometer-scale antimony crystals -- the spontaneous formation of hollow structures -- could help give the next generation of lithium ion batteries higher energy density without reducing battery lifetime. The reversibly h...

Jun 9, 2020

Graphene electrodes enable functional MRI during deep brain stimulation – Physics World

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MR-compatible graphene fibre microelectrodes enable full activation pattern mapping during simultaneous deep brain stimulation and functional MRI The post Graphene electrodes enable functional MRI during deep brain stimulation appeared first on Ph...

Jun 9, 2020

New nanodevice could use solar energy to produce hydrogen

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Scientists describe the design of a PSI-GNP-PSII conjugate that could be used as a platform for developing a light-driven, water-splitting nanodevice for generating hydrogen, in Biomedical Spectroscopy and Imaging

Jun 9, 2020

A new mechanism improves the efficiency of antibacterial surfaces

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Resistance to antibiotics has become a serious public health problem. Hospital infections, prostheses or surgical implants that become infected and do not respond to treatment are a real challenge to the research community, which has been seeking ...

Jun 9, 2020

MIT Engineers Design Nanoparticles That Stimulate the Immune System to Attack Cancer Tumors

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A Boost for Cancer Immunotherapy One promising strategy to treat cancer is stimulating the body’s own immune system to attack tumors. However, tumors are very... The post MIT Engineers Design Nanoparticles That Stimulate the Immune System to Atta...

Jun 9, 2020

A new mechanism improves the efficiency of antibacterial surfaces

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Researchers have developed a nanometric-scale theoretical model to create structures that kill bacteria by using elastic forces. The results of this study pave the way to creating new antibacterial materials.

Jun 9, 2020

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