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Decontaminating pesticide-polluted water using engineered nanomaterial and sunlight

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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 15, 2020

Spinning quantum dots

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A new paper in EPJ B presents a theoretical analysis of electron spins in moving semiconductor quantum dots, showing how these can be controlled by electric fields in a way that suggests they may be usable as information storage and processing com...

Jan 15, 2020

Imprinted color patterns

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Structural colors appear because the imprinted pattern on a surface changes the wavelengths of light. Chinese scientists have introduced an azopolymer that allows the imprinting of nanopatterns in a novel room-temperature lithographic process. A k...

Jan 15, 2020

New nanoparticle therapy offers potential new treatment for aggressive breast cancer

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Researchers developed a new nanoparticle drug formulation that targets a specific receptor on cancer cells, and appears to be more effective than a standard nanoparticle therapy currently on the market to treat metastatic breast cancer. The study...

Jan 15, 2020

Unique tool to democratize entry into the field of nanopore research

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A nanopore is a tiny hole in a thin membrane with a diameter of around a billionth of a meter, or about the width of a single DNA molecule.

Jan 14, 2020

CAREER Award Recipient to Explore Potential of Promising New Material in Optoelectronic Applications

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Sufei Shi, an assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), is the recipient of the CAREER grant award. The National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) gra...

Jan 14, 2020

Colloidal quantum dot laser diodes are just around the corner

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Los Alamos scientists have incorporated meticulously engineered colloidal quantum dots into a new type of light emitting diodes (LEDs) containing an integrated optical resonator, which allows them to function as lasers. These novel, dual-function ...

Jan 14, 2020

A tool to democratize nanopore research

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A nanopore is a tiny hole in a thin membrane with a diameter of around a billionth of a meter, or about the width of a single DNA molecule. The potential applications of these nanopores are so diverse—from medicine to information technology (IT)—t...

Jan 14, 2020

Evonetix and imec partner to increase production of chip-based technology for desktop DNA platform

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EVONETIX LTD, the synthetic biology company developing a desktop platform for scalable, high-fidelity and rapid gene synthesis, today announced it has partnered with imec, a world-leading research and innovation hub active in the fields of nanoele...

Jan 14, 2020

Colloidal quantum dot laser diodes are just around the corner

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Scientists have incorporated meticulously engineered colloidal quantum dots into a new type of light emitting diodes (LEDs) containing an integrated optical resonator, which allows them to function as lasers. These novel, dual-function devices cle...

Jan 14, 2020

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