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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

Study Demonstrates Strong Binding Properties of Nanocelluloses

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Tiny fibrils derived from plants have gained considerable attention. Such nanomaterials have exhibited great potential in outshining plastics, and even substituting them. A scanning electron...

May 12, 2020

Silver nanocubes make point-of-care diagnostics easier to read

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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 12, 2020

Silver nanocubes make point-of-care diagnostics easier to read

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers use plasmonics to enhance fluorescent markers in lab-on-a-chip diagnostic devices.

May 12, 2020

Silver nanocubes make point-of-care diagnostics easier to read: Researchers use plasmonics to enhance fluorescent markers in lab-on-a-chip diagnostic devices

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Engineers 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 shown to be able t...

May 12, 2020

Graphene joins the fight against COVID-19 – Physics World

Physics World   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Surgical masks coated with the carbon nanomaterial could be made self-cleaning and easily sterilizable The post Graphene joins the fight against COVID-19 appeared first on Physics World.

May 12, 2020

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