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The best material for homemade face masks may be a combination of two fabrics

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In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that people wear masks in public. Because N95 and surgical masks are scarce and should be reserved for health care workers, many people are making...

Apr 24, 2020

Scientists develop MOF nanomaterial to remove antibiotics in water

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Researchers used a hydrothermal synthesis method to fabricate the nanomaterial that can work as an absorbent to remove norfloxacin, a kind of antibiotics in water.

Apr 24, 2020

New solution to capture microplastics before they enter waterways

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A novel method utilizes nanocellulose structures for early particle identification. Nanocellulose would allow particles to be captured even before they enter waterways.

Apr 24, 2020

New solution to capture microplastics before they enter waterways

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A thousand liters of seawater can contain up to 8.3 million particles of microplastics. Until now, identifying these very small particles has been difficult—usually they are only detected once they have accumulated in the bodies of fish. A method ...

Apr 24, 2020

OCSiAl Becomes the Largest European Supplier of Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes with its Upgraded REACH Registration

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As from April 2020, OCSiAl is able to commercialize up to 100 tonnes annually of its TUBALL™ single wall carbon nanotubes in Europe thanks to the company’s upgraded dossier under the...

Apr 24, 2020

Researchers develop nanohybrid vehicle to optimally deliver drugs into the human body

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Researchers in The University of Texas at El Paso's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry have developed a nanohybrid vehicle that can be used to optimally deliver drugs into the human body.

Apr 24, 2020

Researchers watch the dynamics of plasmonic skyrmions made from light on ultra-smooth gold platelets for the first time

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Researchers have succeeded for the first time in filming light vortex patterns on the nanometer scale, which are named skyrmions after their discoverer Tony Skyrme.

Apr 24, 2020

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: OCSiAl becomes the largest European supplier of single wall carbon nanotubes with its upgraded REACH registration

Nanotechnology Now   -   Nanotechnology Websites

As from April 2020, OCSiAl is able to commercialize up to 100 tonnes annually of its TUBALL single wall carbon nanotubes in Europe thanks to the companys upgraded dossier under the EUs Registratio...

Apr 24, 2020

FSU researchers discover new structure for promising class of materials

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Florida State researchers have published a new study in the journal Science Advances that explains how they created a hollow nanostructure for metal halide perovskites that would allow the material to emit a highly efficient blue light.

Apr 24, 2020

Maryland engineers open door to big new library of tiny nanoparticles

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A research team has developed a new method for mixing metals generally known to be immiscible, or unmixable, at the nanoscale to create a new range of bimetallic materials. Such a library will be useful for studying the role of these bimetallic pa...

Apr 24, 2020

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