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Engineered nanomaterial uses light to destroy PFAS, other contaminants

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Researchers made a COF-hBN photocatalytic surface that uses light to degrade pollutants in flowing water, including PFAS, drugs and dyes.

Dec 15, 2025

New agentic AI platform accelerates advanced optics design

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Engineers debuted a new framework introducing computational tools and self-reflective AI assistants, potentially advancing fields like optical computing and astronomy.

Dec 15, 2025

High-speed platform mass-produces insect-inspired nanostructures

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A new self-assembly platform produces synthetic brochosomes at over 100,000 per second, enabling scalable antireflective, sensing and camouflage materials.

Dec 15, 2025

Scientists put nanomotors in motion in artificial cells

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Researchers used Listeria's movement as a model to build nanomotors inside artificial cells, giving them lifelike mobility and functions usually seen only in living cells.

Dec 15, 2025

Graphene Manufacturing Group updates on progress with fast-charging graphene aluminium-ion battery

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Graphene Manufacturing Group (GMG) has announced new test results for its graphene aluminium-ion battery, which the company says can recharge in roughly six minutes. GMG said the technology, known as the Graphene Aluminium-Ion Battery (G+AI), is b...

Dec 15, 2025

Cracking the mystery of heat flow in few-atoms thin materials

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

For much of my career, I have been fascinated by the ways in which materials behave when we reduce their dimensions to the nanoscale. Over and over, I've learned that when we shrink a material down to just a few nanometers in thickness, the f...

Dec 14, 2025

Predictive framework for 2D materials puts low-cost, printable electronics on the horizon

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Imagine wearable health sensors, smart packaging, flexible displays, or disposable IoT controllers all manufactured like printed newspapers. The same technology could underpin communication circuits, sensors, and signal-processing components made ...

Dec 14, 2025

Lyten launches graphene-enhanced 3D printing filaments and adhesives for motorsports, aerospace and defense applications

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Lyten has announced the official launch of two products at the Performance Racing Industry (PRI) Show: Lyten 3D Graphene™ enhanced 3D printing filament and a structural epoxy adhesive purpose built for high temperature applications in motorsports,...

Dec 14, 2025

DNA origami lattices on silicon open new possibilities for large-scale nanofabrication

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A dissertation study at the University of Jyväskylä (Finland) developed two-dimensional fishnet-like structures from DNA origami for silicon surfaces and investigated how different conditions affect their formation. The results provide new possibi...

Dec 12, 2025

Femtosecond lasers push the limits of nanostructures for thermal engineering

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Femtosecond laser-induced periodic surface structures can be used to control thermal conductivity in thin film solids, report researchers from Japan. Their innovative method, which leverages high-speed laser ablation, produces parallel nanoscale g...

Dec 12, 2025

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