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Machine learning predicts nanoparticles' structure and dynamics

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

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

Finally, Commercialization of Wafers of Carbon Nanotube Transistor Chips | NextBigFuture.com

NextBigFuture   -   Scientific News Websites

Carbon nanotube field-effect transistors or CNFETs can now be made 1100 times faster so significant commercialization will finally happen. CNFETs are more energy-efficient than silicon field-effect transistors and could be used to build new types ...

Jun 9, 2020

New nanodevice could use solar energy to produce hydrogen

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Amsterdam, June 9, 2020 - Solar energy is considered by some to be the ultimate solution to address the current energy crisis and global warming and the environmental crises brought about by excessive consumption of fossil fuels. However, this cle...

Jun 9, 2020

Renewable fuel from carbon dioxide with the aid of solar energy

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, are attempting to convert carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, to fuel using energy from sunlight. Recent results have shown that it is possible to use their technique to selectively produce methane, carbo...

Jun 9, 2020

Snapshot of exploding oxygen

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

For more than 200 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 XFE...

Jun 9, 2020

Holders of negative opinions towards GM food likely to be against other novel food tech

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Scientists at NTU Singapore and the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health have found that people who hold negative opinions of genetically-modified (GM) food are likely to feel the same about nano-enabled food -- food with nano-additives to e...

Jun 9, 2020

Machine learning predicts nanoparticles' structure and dynamics

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland 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 t...

Jun 9, 2020

A new mechanism improves the efficiency of antibacterial surfaces

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Universitat Rovira i Virgili 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

Making nanoparticle analysis quicker and more affordable

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Scientists introduce an open-source method to simplify nanoparticle analysis using scanning electron microscope images.

Jun 8, 2020

New tool helps nanorods stand out

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Rice University scientists have developed an easy and affordable tool to count and characterize nanoparticles.

Jun 8, 2020

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