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These tiny, self-assembling traps capture PFAS

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University at Buffalo chemists have shown that self-assembling molecular traps can be used to capture PFAS—dangerous pollutants that have contaminated drinking water supplies around the world.

May 27, 2020

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Surrey reveals its implantable biosensor that operates without batteries

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Researchers from the University of Surrey have revealed their new biodegradable motion sensor - paving the way for implanted nanotechnology that could help future sports professionals better monitor t...

May 27, 2020

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Study finds electrical fields can throw a curveball: Particle-scale phenomenon akin to the swerving of a curveball could allow selective separation of suspended nanomaterials

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MIT researchers have discovered a phenomenon that could be harnessed to control the movement of tiny particles floating in suspension. This approach, which requires simply applying an external electri...

May 27, 2020

Kirigami/origami: unfolding the new regime of advanced 3-D micro-/nanofabrication with 'folding'

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3-D micro-/nanofabrication holds the key to building a large variety of micro-/nanoscale materials, structures, devices, and systems with unique properties that do not manifest in their 2-D planar counterparts. Recently, scientists have explored s...

May 27, 2020

Elucidation of nanostructures in practical heterogeneous catalysts

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Scientists from Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) and University of Torino (UNITO) have cooperatively clarified the nanostructure of the heterogeneous Ziegler-Natta catalyst by means of combined synchrotron X-ray analytica...

May 27, 2020

Van der Waals junction spin valves without spacer layer

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The fundamental principle of a spin valve is that the resistance is dependent on the parallel or antiparallel configurations of the two ferromagnetic electrodes, thus associating the magnetoresistance (MR) effect, whose basic structure consists of...

May 27, 2020

Kirigami/origami: unfolding the new regime of advanced 3D microfabrication/nanofabrication

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3D micro-/nanofabrication holds the key to build a large variety of micro-/nanoscale materials, structures, devices, and systems with unique properties that do not manifest in their 2D planar counterparts. Recently, scientists have explored some v...

May 27, 2020

Construction of hollow nanoreactors for enhanced photo-oxidations

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Researchers have demonstrated a facile synthesis of hollow-structured photocatalysts with controllable spatial location of active metals, chemical compositions and tunable shell thickness.

May 27, 2020

Saturable Plasmonic Metasurfaces for Laser Mode Locking

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Researchers from France, China, and Brazil have developed plasmonic metasurfaces that provide an efficient saturable absorption that can be tuned with the polarization of light.

May 27, 2020

Nano-optomechanical resonator detects low-frequency bacteria vibrations – Physics World

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Researchers in Spain and France have measured the vibrations of individual bacteria by coupling them to a nanomechanical device with a similar resonance frequency. This new optomechanical spectrometry technique could offer an alternative to curren...

May 27, 2020

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