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Ancient Greek tholos-like architecture composed of archaeal proteins

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Collaborative research groups discovered a unique supramolecular structure composed of hyperthermophilic archaeal proteins. Their integrative biophysical data show that the two functionally unannotated archaeal proteins are co-assembled into an an...

Feb 3, 2020

Nanotechnology Now - News Story: NIOSH requests data to help develop exposure limits for nanomaterials

Nanotechnology Now   -   Nanotechnology Websites

NIOSH is seeking scientific information regarding the dangers or safety of engineered nanomaterials as the agency explores the development of occupational exposure limits. ENMs are chemical substan...

Feb 1, 2020

Picosun’s ALD Technology Helps to Fight Climate Change

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Picosun’s Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) thin film barrier coating technology offers a solution for eliminating the use of hazardous process gases, sulphur hexafluoride (SF6) and nitrogen...

Jan 31, 2020

Nanospirals that form as molten metals solidify could be key to new materials—and invisibility

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Humans have been cooling metal mixtures from liquid to solid for thousands of years. But surprisingly, not much is known about exactly what happens during the process of solidification. Particularly puzzling is the solidification of eutectics, whi...

Jan 31, 2020

Carbon nanotubes from Aalto University used in new material revolution

Technology Org   -   Scientific News Websites

Aalto University Professor Esko I. Kauppinen has helped a team in Japan with their groundbreaking work in growing

Jan 31, 2020

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: A megalibrary of nanoparticles: Researchers at Penn State have developed a simple approach that could produce over 65,000 different types of complex nanoparticles

Nanotechnology Now   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Using straightforward chemistry and a mix-and-match, modular strategy, researchers have developed a simple approach that could produce over 65,000 different types of complex nanoparticles, each contai...

Jan 31, 2020

Nesting nanotubes to create 1-D van der Waals heterostructures

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

An international team of researchers has found a new way to create 1-D heterostructures—by nesting nanotubes. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes how they nested the nanotubes and the shapes they were able to creat...

Jan 31, 2020

A quantum of solid: A glass nanoparticle in the quantum regime

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers in Austria have used lasers to levitate and cool a glass nanoparticle into the quantum regime. Although it is trapped in a room-temperature environment, the particle's motion is solely governed by the laws of quantum physics. The ...

Jan 31, 2020

A quantum of solid

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Scientists have demonstrated the cooling of a levitated nanoparticle to the motional quantum ground state.

Jan 31, 2020

PrimaLoft P.U.R.E. adopted by Patagonia

Innovation in Textiles   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

PrimaLoft P.U.R.E. will reduce carbon emissions for insulation used in Patagonia Nano Puff by nearly half ...

Jan 31, 2020

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