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A New Approach to Transform Nanofiber Membranes into 3D Scaffolds

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

In the movie "Transformers," cars morph into robots, jets or a variety of machinery. A similar concept inspired a group of researchers to combine gas foaming, which is a blend of chemicals...

May 13, 2020

Multi-scale structured materials for electrocatalysis and photoelectrocatalysis

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

As a new class of porous materials, noble metal aerogels (NMAs) have drawn attention for their self-supported architectures, high surface areas and their many optically and catalytically active sites, enabling impressive performance in diverse fie...

May 13, 2020

Nanosized Silver Cubes can Make Diagnostic Tests Easier to Read

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Engineers at Duke University have shown that nanosized silver cubes can make diagnostic tests that rely on fluorescence easier to read by making them more than 150 times brighter. Combined with an emerging point-of-care diagnostic platform already...

May 13, 2020

Unraveling the magnetism of a graphene triangular flake

chemeurope.com   -   Scientific News Websites

Graphene is a diamagnetic material, this is, unable of becoming magnetic. However, a triangular piece of graphene is predicted to be magnetic. This apparent contradiction is a consequence of "magic" shapes in the structure of graphene f...

May 13, 2020

New nanomaterials to remove antibiotics from water

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers synthesized the new metal-organic framework (MOF) nanomaterials to successfully remove antibiotics from water.

May 13, 2020

Noble metal aerogels enabled by freezing: Multi-scale structured materials for electrocatalysis and photoelectrocatalysis

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Chemists developed a freeze-thaw method, capable of synthesising various noble metal aerogels with clean surfaces and multiscale structure. The research provides new ideas for designing various gel or foam materials for high-performance electrocat...

May 13, 2020

Carbon nanotubes pave the way for human breath analysis of lung disease

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Breath is one of the main sources of human health parameters that can be used for predicting the state of internal organs. Exhaled breath composition is very complex and the existence of disease marker molecules can be as low as one part per milli...

May 13, 2020

A new, highly sensitive chemical sensor uses protein nanowires

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Writing in NanoResearch, a team at UMass Amherst reports that they have developed bioelectronic ammonia gas sensors that are among the most sensitive ever made. It uses electric-charge-conducting protein nanowires derived from the bacterium Geobac...

May 13, 2020

Noble metal aerogels enabled by freezing

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TU Dresden chemists developed a freeze-thaw method, capable of synthesising various noble metal aerogels (NMAs) with clean surfaces and multiscale structure. In virtue of their hierarchical structures and unique optical properties, outstanding per...

May 13, 2020

Organic small molecule hole-transporting layers toward efficient p-i-n perovskite solar cells

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Researchers proposed a concept for designing small-molecule HTL materials with supramolecular interactions and inverse diffusion properties. As a result, the planar p-i-n pero-SCs based on this HTL could not only realize a high PCE without dopant ...

May 13, 2020

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