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UCF's butterfly-inspired nanotech makes natural-looking pictures on digital screens

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The new technology creates digital displays that are lit by surrounding light and are more natural looking than current display technologies that rely on energy-intensive bright lights hidden behind screens. The findings were published Wednesday i...

Jun 4, 2020

Showtime for photosynthesis

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Using a unique combination of nanoscale imaging and chemical analysis, an international team of researchers has revealed a key step in the molecular mechanism behind the water splitting reaction of photosynthesis, a finding that could help inform ...

Jun 4, 2020

High-speed atomic video

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A team including researchers from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Tokyo has successfully captured video of single molecules in motion at 1,600 frames per second. This is 100 times faster than previous experiments of this nature. T...

Jun 4, 2020

Cyanobacteria and nanomaterials give solar cell a boost – Physics World

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Photosynthesizing microorganisms are at the heart of a new biophotovoltaic cell The post Cyanobacteria and nanomaterials give solar cell a boost appeared first on Physics World.

Jun 3, 2020

Anisotropy of spin-lattice relaxations in molecular magnets

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Scientists from IFJ PAN in cooperation with researchers from the Nara Women's University (Japan) and the Jagiellonian University (Poland) took another important step towards building a functional quantum computer. Using material containing te...

Jun 3, 2020

Graphene and 2D materials could move electronics beyond 'Moore's Law'

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New developments in spintronics could lead to graphene being used as a building block for next-generation electronics.

Jun 3, 2020

Synthetic red blood cells mimic natural ones, and have new abilities

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Scientists have tried to develop synthetic red blood cells that mimic the favorable properties of natural ones, such as flexibility, oxygen transport and long circulation times. But so far, most artificial red blood cells have had one or a few, bu...

Jun 3, 2020

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Exotic nanotubes move in less-mysterious ways: Rice scientists, engineers show boron nitride�s promise for composites, biomedical applications

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Boron nitride nanotubes are anything but boring, according to Rice University scientists who have found a way to watch how they move in liquids.

Jun 3, 2020

Graphene and 2-D materials could move electronics beyond 'Moore's law'

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A team of researchers based in Manchester, the Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland and the U.S. has published a new review on a field of computer device development known as spintronics, which could see graphene used as building block for n...

Jun 3, 2020

Stretchable variable color sheet that changes color with expansion and contraction

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A Toyohashi University of Technology research team has succeeded in developing a variable color sheet with a film thickness of 400 nanometers that changes color when stretched and shrunk. The developed stretchable color sheets are expected to be a...

Jun 3, 2020

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