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Heat check on a chip: Nanoscalechip can detect sub-microwatt changes in temperature

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Scientists working in medical research, biology, cellular studies, and in understanding bacteria and other pathogens often need to know about temperature rises and falls in the systems on which they focus. Many processes involve heat production an...

Jan 16, 2020

Decontaminating pesticide-polluted water using engineered nanomaterial

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Atrazine is one of the most widely used pesticides in North America. Researchers at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS) have developed a new method to degrade it that combines a new nanostructured material and sunlight.

Jan 16, 2020

Tuned Resonators Allow Control of Electromagnetically Induced Transparency

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Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have devised an optical resonator system that can be used to turn transparency on and off. The ability to manipulate electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) without the introduction of an ou...

Jan 16, 2020

Pretty with a twist

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Complex, porous, chiral nanopatterns arise from a simple linear building blocks.

Jan 16, 2020

Decontaminating pesticide-polluted water using engineered nanomaterial and sunlight

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers develop a new ecological process to degrade atrazine.

Jan 16, 2020

Colloidal Quantum Dot Photodetectors can now see further than before

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An ICFO study published in Nanoletters reports on the development of a colloidal quantum dot photodetector capable of detecting light in the far infrared.

Jan 16, 2020

Pretty with a twist

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Nanoscience can arrange minute molecular entities into nanometric patterns in an orderly manner using self-assembly protocols. Scientists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have functionalized a simple rod-like building block with hydroxa...

Jan 16, 2020

Nanopore sequencing of African swine fever virus

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Researchers from China for the first time utilized the nanopore sequencing technology to obtain the whole genome from a clinical sample of African swine fever virus. After that they evaluated the quality and feasibility of different approaches for...

Jan 16, 2020

AlphaZero learns to rule the quantum world

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The chess world was amazed when the computer algorithm AlphaZero learned, after just four hours on its own, to beat the best chess programs built on human expertise. Now a research group at Aarhus University in Denmark has used the very same algor...

Jan 16, 2020

POSTECH developed self-assembled artificial microtubule like LEGO building blocks

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Professor Kimoon Kim and his research team identified a new hierarchical self-assembly mechanism

Jan 16, 2020

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