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Atomic tuning on cobalt enables an eightfold increase of hydrogen peroxide production

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IBS scientists and their colleagues have recently report an ultimate electrocatalyst that addresses all of the issues that trouble H2O2 production. This new catalyst comprising the optimal Co-N4 molecules incorporated in nitrogen-doped graphene, C...

Jan 13, 2020

Nanosatellites improve detection of early-season corn nitrogen stress

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For corn growers, the decision of when and how much nitrogen fertilizer to apply is a perennial challenge. Scientists have shown that nanosatellites known as CubeSats can detect nitrogen stress early in the season, potentially giving farmers a cha...

Jan 13, 2020

Magnetically levitating proteins to precisely measure their density

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The density of proteins in solution is an important fundamental biophysical quantity that has not been accurately measured yet. This has led to extensive debate in the literature regarding the precise density value of proteins. This rough density ...

Jan 13, 2020

Tuning optical resonators gives researchers control over transparency: Method has ramifications for quantum computing, communications and more

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Using a nanoparticle as a 'tuning device,' researchers have devised a way to control electromagnetically induced transparency -- a feature of light which allows it to pass through opaque media.

Jan 13, 2020

Bacteria-shredding tech to fight drug-resistant superbugs: Magnetic liquid metals used to develop bacteria-destroying technology

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New technology uses nano-sized particles of magnetic liquid metal to shred bacteria and bacterial biofilm. The research offers a groundbreaking new direction in the search for solutions to the deadly problem of antibiotic resistance.

Jan 13, 2020

Atomic tuning on cobalt enables an eightfold increase of H2O2 production

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Scientists have recently report an ultimate electrocatalyst that addresses all of the issues that trouble H2O2 production. This new catalyst comprising the optimal Co-N4 molecules incorporated in nitrogen-doped graphene, Co1-NG(O), exhibits a reco...

Jan 13, 2020

Nano-objects of desire: Assembling ordered nanostructures in 3D

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A new DNA-programmable nanofabrication platform organizes inorganic or biological nanocomponents in the same prescribed ways.

Jan 13, 2020

Nano-objects of desire: Assembling ordered nanostructures in 3-D

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Scientists have developed a platform for assembling nanosized material components, or "nano-objects," of very different types—inorganic or organic—into desired 3-D structures. Though self-assembly (SA) has successfully been used to organ...

Jan 13, 2020

Nano-objects of desire: Assembling ordered nanostructures in 3D

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Using shape-programmable DNA frames, scientists established a new nanofabrication platform for directing nanomaterial components of different natures (inorganic and biological) into 3-D arrays with prescribed organizations; they then demonstrated ...

Jan 13, 2020

Hyperuniform disordered waveguides and devices for near infrared silicon photonics

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In a new report published on Scientific Reports, Milan M. Milošević and an international research team at the Zepler Institute for Photonics and Nanoelectronics, Etaphase Incorporated and the Departments of Chemistry, Physics and Astronomy, in the...

Jan 13, 2020

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